Raj G Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Hi, I have been using Cakewalk by Bandlab and it is an amazing program - and the recent updates have been really great. I am having one issue with Cakewalk. I have a Windows 10 PC with a display connected by HDMI. The display provides a sound device through HDMI (which I use but not with Cakewalk). When I put Windows 10 PC to sleep and resume, I get a notification that the sound device connected by HDMI is disconnected and would I like to route outputs to other available devices. This is annoying as I am not using HDMI sound device in the first place. There is a setting to turn off such prompts (which I am using). However, when this happens, the ASIO driver stops working. I have to click on the button to restart the ASIO driver. Cakewalk works fine after that. A few requests: can Cakewalk automatically restart ASIO driver when resuming from sleep? Thanks. Osho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Rantaaho Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) I've had much, much bigger problems with sleep mode than having to restart the driver, and I've read dozens of forum posts about having to reboot, loosing changes or worse. There used to be a consensus that it's risky to use the sleep mode in DAW-work, I don't know how it is with modern equipment and software. Anyway, controlling the sleep functions is Windows' job, isn't it? I don't know if Cakewalk can do anything about it (??) As there are also HDD's that have their own power saving systems. Edited January 27, 2020 by Kalle Rantaaho 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBH Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 It's usually not recommended to allow " sleep " mode when using DAW. Power options can turn monitors off - but Hard drives need to stay awake. There are a number of actual experts on this forum, hopefully they will see this thread and speak more authoritatively than I can about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarTekh Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Never use sleep mode .. Power options must be set up correct for your system to perform ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj G Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 The sleep-resume is incidental to this request/issue. The issue is that if a device output is disconnected and Cakewalk isn't actually using it - there shouldn't be a popup informing the user. And, at the very least, that shouldn't reset the ASIO driver. Osho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Not all ASIO interfaces can recover from a sleep. Although Windows will correctly restore its ASIO driver state, the interface may not. If the two are out of sync, an ASIO reset will be required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will. Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 It's sad that we all can't afford better systems. I remember having this problem with my old system which was an i3 system. So, I saved up some bucks for an i7 system 16gig ram and a 2T SSD hard drive. All problems gone! I know not all are running on newer systems or can afford it. Upgrading your old SATA hard drive to a SSD hard drive and adding at least 8gig of ram will speed up your systems reading. Also clean up your startup programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj G Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 12 hours ago, pwalpwal said: it's also recommended to disable hdmi sound... you can try power-cycling the tv? (will cause asio disconnect/reconnect) Unfortunately I cannot - I am using that sound device for other (non-DAW) purposes. Osho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj G Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 1 hour ago, _Will_ said: It's sad that we all can't afford better systems. I remember having this problem with my old system which was an i3 system. So, I saved up some bucks for an i7 system 16gig ram and a 2T SSD hard drive. All problems gone! I know not all are running on newer systems or can afford it. Upgrading your old SATA hard drive to a SSD hard drive and adding at least 8gig of ram will speed up your systems reading. Also clean up your startup programs. I have a system with i7 and 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD drive. It is very new and performs very well without any other issues. This is not an issue due to an under-powered system. This is an issue because of Cakewalk's implementation of how to handle device disconnections. At the very least, if ASIO driver can be automatically restarted whenever device disconnection happens - that will be great. Thanks. I am hoping that some developer will chime in. Osho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raj G Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 17 hours ago, msmcleod said: Not all ASIO interfaces can recover from a sleep. Although Windows will correctly restore its ASIO driver state, the interface may not. If the two are out of sync, an ASIO reset will be required. Sure, but in that case it will be great if Cakewalk can automatically reset ASIO driver when resume from sleep is detected. Thanks. Osho 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 12:49 PM, Raj G said: The display provides a sound device through HDMI (which I use but not with Cakewalk). When I put Windows 10 PC to sleep and resume, I get a notification that the sound device connected by HDMI is disconnected and would I like to route outputs to other available devices. This is annoying as I am not using HDMI sound device in the first place. Sorry, I am not a developer, but your issue has me wondering what your setup is. It sounds like you have more than one device. Do you have multiple drivers, too? Or is one driver attempting to route audio to more than one device? Maybe the answers are in the thread and I missed them. Also, I may have missed which device driver(s) you are using--one(s) from device manufacturers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will. Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Raj G said: I have a system with i7 and 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD drive. It is very new and performs very well without any other issues. This is not an issue due to an under-powered system. This is an issue because of Cakewalk's implementation of how to handle device disconnections. At the very least, if ASIO driver can be automatically restarted whenever device disconnection happens - that will be great. Thanks. I am hoping that some developer will chime in. Osho Well, something that is old in your system or attached causes that problem. Trust I've dealt with this on so many occasions and level. One thing that I will though is, I don't know about anyone else, but I find cakewalk to run best on Win 7 64bit. Anyway like I mentioned check your startup programs too. Normally Avast antivirus causes these issues too. Although i'm running Porcelain 10 the latest update. Another well known fellow friend and producer runs the Windows 10 Red stone and said that cakewalk is running smoother there. Edited January 29, 2020 by _Will_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I disabled sleep on my DAW. I just shutdown when not using it. Booting up Windows from SSD is almost as fast as resuming from sleep, so why bother with sleep issues? There is also a known issue with Windows sleep and FireWire. Sleep is not fully supported with FireWire, so anyone using a FW audio interface, best to disable sleep. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 21 hours ago, Raj G said: I have a system with i7 and 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD drive. It is very new and performs very well without any other issues. This is not an issue due to an under-powered system. This is an issue because of Cakewalk's implementation of how to handle device disconnections. At the very least, if ASIO driver can be automatically restarted whenever device disconnection happens - that will be great. Thanks. I am hoping that some developer will chime in. Osho You can reload the ASIO driver manually in Cakewalk at any time by pressing CTRL and clicking the Reset button. However when I have seen this happen this doesnt solve the problem. Some devices physically need to be power cycled. Its a hardware/driver issue. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Bone Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 I believe it to generally be best to avoid hibernation when running CbB, or any DAW, because of the hit or miss failure by some audio interface brands/models to properly come back to life, which as was pointed out earlier, is something specific to the hardware and/or associated drivers for those audio interfaces, and not anything that Cakewalk can control. I don't do much tweaking of anything in Windows 10, (or for the computer) for prepping when using a given computer for running streaming audio applications, such as Cakewalk. I pretty much do only the following: 1) Make sure to store sample libraries on SSD drives that are not the boot drive (not the "C" drive) 2) I modify Cakewalk Preferences, so that most content is moved off to a non-boot drive, as well. I do this for all of the folders under Folder Locations, except for those folders that by default are stored in the AppData folder on the boot drive. Please note that in addition to the folder locations under Edit > Preferences > File > Folder Locations, there are a couple more folder paths to modify, under Edit > Preferences > File > Audio Data - and those folders are: Global Audio and Picture Folders (Audio Data and Picture Cache). 3) I whitelist my sample libraries, as well as the Cakewalk Content folder (sub-folders to both are also whitelisted when the parent folders are). I also whitelist the Cakewalk Core folder in Program Files, as well as the Common Files/VST3 folder and the folder containing all of my plugins (I use VST64). All files are scanned for viruses when I download them, as my Downloads folder is not excluded from the antivirus software, and any compressed data is scanned when it gets decompressed. 4) I set my Power Plan to High Performance, with Min and Max CPU set to 100%, set it to never turn off the Hard Drives, and I also disable the USB Selective Suspend. I also never let the computer hibernate on its own. That's about it. (I don't think I forgot anything) Bob Bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojtek Stecyszyn Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 When usually putting your PC or laptop to sleep when DAW is open is not a widely acceptable practice .... I was doing it ever since with no issues. One driver from TASCAM when I close my laptop lid (putting laptop to sleep) will also switch OFF Tascam interface and then switch it back ON when I wake laptop from sleep and the game is on (Cakewalk is redy to continue). Second interface UR44C from Steinberg has its own power supply, so putting laptop to sleep is not switching off interface ( I only loose USB connection, but it reconnect immediately when I open lid even before CbB is in focus. Sometimes when I go out from laptop for longer and put it to sleep I also manually switch off this interface and ONLY THEN when switched back and when laptop is brought to wake from sleep I will loose the driver from Cakewalk but then I can quickly reconnect it by genial trick shared by @Noel Borthwick few posts above that is CTRL and click on "Reset MIDI and Audio" icon. So bottom line - it all depends on audio driver and type of interface and your personal workflow. Try it yourself. I just leave it here maybe someone will find it useful Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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