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BTW, today it even starts glitching without messing with fx, just unmuting or muting any particular track.

The point is I've got years of working with Cakewalk, then Sonar, then Cakewalk, and now Sonar again so I'm very familiar with all the stupid hoops one has to jump through to ensure that these work well. Yes I'm using ASIO drivers. Yes I'm using a great interface (Clarett+), yes I have a great PC with LOTS of memory, yes I have SSD drive, etc. THIS SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE and I shouldn't have to spend hours hunting down which plugin might or might not be the one it's having a problem with. Yes I can open projects in Cakewalk and they work fine without crashing or scrambling sound and needing buffer reset to make them play well again. 

The instability of this new Sonar on Windows 10/11 vs Cakewalk is REALLY annoying and for sure not worth paying for. Every 5-10 minutes it either crashes having to recover, or the audio starts to mess up/scramble and I have to go into the driver settings and just nudge the buffering up or down one notch and then it resets and works for a few minutes more, then rinse and repeat. It always start glitching after modifying various fx.

However, still not happy it keeps crashing every 10-15 minutes of editing. Cakewalk for Bandlab was pretty stable. Sonar not so much.

In Cakewalk by Bandlab, Pancake 2 worked fine. However, I can't get to work on any track in Sonar. I can add it just fine, it just does nothing. The orange pan pattern lines either show no signal movement or turn completely gray sometimes. It's not the interleave. I've tried on both mono and stereo tracks with both mono and stereo audio content.

Nevermind I was being a tard and didn't realize I had frozen tracks argghh... The freeze button doesn't stand out as much in this UI.

Disabling Defender Real-time defense has helped. However, now I'm getting crashes intermittently on the TR-Racks brickwall limiter plugin... I'm glad I haven't paid for this **** yet... really annoying... feels like a step backward now forward.

3 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

What ASIO audio interface are you using?

Focusrite Clarett+ 4Pre

I did note in LatencyMon that Windows Defender might be causing interrupts at times... going to play with disabling that... but not sure that's a great thing to leave off so if it's the problem, would probably make a bat script to turn it on/off and put it in with my other script that does high perf mode on/off.

I've
- disabled the onboard sound on my motherboard via BIOS,

-made sure my threads don't "park", (high perf mode)
- made sure my USB's don't go to sleep,
-have my media files on a separate fast SSD drive,
-made sure my startup menu was clean and prevented a lot of background apps from starting at startup
but none of that has stopped my fairly high performance windows 10 pc from clicking and popping while playing back audio where there aren't that many tracks playing or FX engaged.

The ONLY thing that stops it is forcing Cakewalk or Sonar to load with "Real-Time" app priority (which you can see in Task Manager). So, I know there is SOMETHING that seems to be competing for resources but I'm not sure what it is. Any clues or suggestions from other users who have encountered the same?

Also... LatencyMon says my system is fine and suitable for realtime audio playback.

I've
- disabled the onboard sound on my motherboard via BIOS,

-made sure my threads don't "park", (high perf mode)
- made sure my USB's don't go to sleep,
-have my media files on a separate fast SSD drive,
-made sure my startup menu was clean and prevented a lot of background apps from starting at startup
but none of that has stopped my fairly high performance windows 10 pc from clicking and popping while playing back audio where there aren't that many tracks playing or FX engaged.

The ONLY thing that stops it is forcing Cakewalk or Sonar to load with "Real-Time" app priority (which you can see in Task Manager). So, I know there is SOMETHING that seems to be competing for resources but I'm not sure what it is. Any clues or suggestions from other users who have encountered the same?