Bristol_Jonesey

What happens if you remove the 2 x 8 and install the 2 x 16?

Dissolves?

BFD3 is fine for me as well.

I don't think there's anything physically built in to the software to stop you from trying So try it and find out

Set workspaces to None

It most certainly did 👍

You'd be far better off trying to identify the source of the dropout/slow down and get that fixed. The fact that whatever's going on affects your email and browser strongly suggests it's a problem outside of Sonar.

So have you tried it using the XLR output? Trying it with USB will likely lead to driver conflict.

Not sure what you mean by "overlay sound on the piano roll" Can you explain exactly what you're doing

When you see the pale blue thing, Cakewalk is trying to dock whatever it is you're ,moving into the Multidock. hold down the ctrl key to disable this when dragging

You need to remove it completely from your pc, including the Windows Registry

I actually opened it up on my laptop - Dell XPS 17 9710 Win 11 Home Edition version 10.0.22631 build 22631 CPU is 11th gen i7-11800H 2.3Ghz with 16Gb RAM

It opens up fine here in Sonar Obviously I get warning messages about missing audio & plugins but other than that, it doesn't crash or hang. That's with all 94 tracks and 40 busses active

Have you got input monitoring switched on and direct monitoring at the same time?

Condensor mic. Have you got phantom power switched on?