Delay in hearing audio the first time you hit play

[Sven]

I've notice that often when I hit play for the first time after loading a song it takes a half a second to hear the first audio parts.   If I simply hit play again it's fine and the music starts perfectly.   I thought it might be a setting like "Suspend Audio Engine When Cakewalk is Not in Focus" but unchecking that doesn't fix it.   Does anyone know how solve this?

 

[chuckebaby]

This happens to me as well. I dont believe it has anything to do with Cakewalk as much as it is the Speakers/monitors built in protection circuit.  Even using stand alone plug ins (Guitar rig for example) i have 1-2 seconds of silence before my speakers are activated to normal mode.

What kind of speakers are you using ?

[Sven]

Speakers are JBL 3MkII.  I can test them with a non-Cakewalk sound source to see if that's the problem.  I usually only use them for Cakewalk.

Thanks.

 

[John Vere]

I think this is normal. It's certainly been what I experience if I walk away from my computer and have to wake it up. I think it's just the way computers are no matter how fine tuned they are for audio. You want delays then try going back to Windows 7! I just fired up my old W7 laptop,, I forgot how slow everything was back then. Even the internet seems slow. 

[Sven]

John Vere,

  Thanks for your response.    For the record, this system is Windows 7 64 bit.   I'm actually pleasantly surprised at how well SONAR does with this system.    The song I'm currently working on has 45 tracks, many of them Kontakt SoftSynths.    I rarely have processing lapses and I can always freeze tracks or archive them to improve performance.    I'm not a big fan of Windows 10 so I'll stick with this until I have a compelling reason to change.