Rickddd

I appreciate the time you took to provide this information. But I do have to disagree in part. The Creative Labs Soundblaster Z card is a high end card specifically made for audio production, with a very high s/n ratio, low latency and ASIO support. As I can't offer proof of this with my own scientific measurements, suffice to say when I am running that puppy at 2ms whether to record midi or audio there is no detectable delay. My midi notes hit their mark precisely. For years I found recording in daws annoying even with minimal latencies. But this card is one half hair width short of zero latency. I'm not saying its the best of the best, I'm sure there are better. But it really works remarkably well. sound-blaster-zxr I can live with having to switch buffer sizes (round trip time), its just me wanting it all! All the best, Rick

Over the last 4 or 5 updates, I have seen it swing from ok to worse and now much better. So I am in a happy place. I get an occasional crash when I am freezing tracks, but can usually get past that so I am good. I am a sonar veteran, having purchased platinum. And I am so appreciative of what Bandlab has done with it since. I love creating music, and it's especially made the last couple of years a positive experience. Am happy with the stability overall.

>>> Although I can understand why one might come to the conclusion you did, I simply click on the ASIO button, and select the MS that I want to try. See image below. So, for recording, I set 2ms and effects off, and for playback if I want live plug ins I set some higher number. The example below shows 60. Note that my audio card has ASIO, and is PCI based. So it doesn't have to deal with USB connections, hence it can be super fast. I've been switching back and forth since Sonar 1, so I obviously can live with it. I just thought... wow it would be nice if.... PS: did want to mention that the program 100% of the time remembers my latency (hence, buffer) settings, no matter if I shut down the program or not. That part works beautifully, as does the super fast midi recording because of the 2MS latency. Love it. He Scook - great idea on the Autohotkey. I forgot about keyboard automation. For years I used something called macro express in my programming life. I will ressurect that and see what I can do. Thanks!

I'm not sure I communicated well what the issue was, and why a static setting is not the best choice, for me. Hopefully in this post you see a graphic that I created for it. This is in CW prefs. Shutting off effects allows me to set the ASIO buffers to an incredibly fast setting of 2 MS. This makes it a pleasure to precisely record midi stuff - be it drums or piano or whatever. No delays. No manual fixing needed. But when I want to work with the effects on, I must increase buffer size. The amount depends on how many live effects I have. Often, I try to freeze tracks as much as possible but that's not always convenient. In the graphic, you see where I set it to 60MS. This works fine for playback, but recording introduces significant delays in the midi not recording. So I do not use it for recording. And so if I am recording, editing etc and if I want plug ins enabled for playback, I must constantly go back and forth on the ASIO setting. If there was a way to set an ASIO buffer override setting for all effects off and/or recording, that would work. Like I said, I work around this, but it's just tedious after the millionth time. It's not a Bandlab caused issue, been like this at least from Sonar 1 which is when I started with Cake.

When I am recording in Cakewalk, I shut off all the effects and I turn down the ASIO buffer size. I can get it down to 2MS. When I want to play things back with all effects on, I go into preferences and set the ASIO buffer size to some higher number - anywhere from 20-40MS or even more. I do this manually, and as you might guess, I end up doing it a million times a day if I am recording and listening and building and going back and forth. Is there any way that I can have one ASIO buffer automatically when effects are off and one on when they are on? I'm guessing no. Although I love Cakewalk, I have just passed my 1 millionth time having to do this manually.