No Sound After Idle (hardware output disappears) - SOLVED

[Myriad Rocker]

Hey all. I'm having what I think is kind of an unusual issue. If I leave Cakewalk open and walk away for awhile, when I come back and hit play, there won't be any sound. The "Mains" disappear from the master. If I close and reopen the song, it tells me there are no hardware mains. I have to restart Cakewalk to get it back. It's like the interface goes to sleep or something. However, that's not the case because other audio outside of Cakewalk plays fine. I feel like I'm missing something here. Any ideas?

Edited September 7, 2021 by Myriad Rocker

[user905133]

Sometimes (usually after I forget or don't have time to reset my "Don't Sleep" settings after a Windows update) my PC takes some sort of nap and I temporarily lose access to some of my usb devices. Perhaps you need to revisit those settings? I know I have some lists of settings tweaks saved somewhere, but I usually just do an internet search for "windows tweaks for audio gear."  Sometimes different lists will have a tweak or two I hadn't done before.

Edited September 4, 2021 by User 905133

[Myriad Rocker]

I'll check that out and report back. Thanks. 

[bitflipper]

You have to explicitly tell Windows to not put USB ports to sleep.

Open Device Manager and scroll down to the USB devices. There may be a bunch of them, but if you don't know which one connects your audio interface it's OK to do this to all of them. Un-check the "allow computer to turn off" option. (It's not unchecked in the screenshot below because I don't use a USB interface and therefore don't need to worry about it.)

 

[Myriad Rocker]

Thanks guys.  Not sure why I didn't think of this before as I remember doing this at some point in the past with another computer.  Easy to forget little things like this.

I changed the settings, but I haven't had a moment to test it out.   Tomorrow will be a good day for that.

[Myriad Rocker]

Just a follow up here.  I have been doing some editing today and had to step away for a few hours.  When I came back, all was well.  Solution worked great!

Thanks again.