Get Sonar to "follow" system audio settings?

[quattj]

Is there a way to get Sonar to follow system audio settings?  I constantly have to go in to the preferences any time I connect or remove my earbuds or other external speakers/microphones.  I'd like it to automatically switch to whatever the current Windows device is.  Very jarring when I have put headphones in for privacy and my music starts blaring out of my laptop speakers.

[57Gregy]

1 hour ago, quattj said:

Is there a way to get Sonar to follow system audio settings?  I constantly have to go in to the preferences any time I connect or remove my earbuds or other external speakers/microphones.  I'd like it to automatically switch to whatever the current Windows device is.  Very jarring when I have put headphones in for privacy and my music starts blaring out of my laptop speakers.

You shouldn't have this problem if you used Sonar with your audio interface designed for recording and the computer's sound card for everything else.

[quattj]

I use Sonar strictly for editing MIDI files. 

[57Gregy]

19 minutes ago, quattj said:

I use Sonar strictly for editing MIDI files. 

So, how do you hear the MIDI?

[Bass Guitar]

I was just travelling with my laptop and just like you I found it a bit annoying that Sonar wouldn’t always switch to my headphones when I plugged them in. 
Everything else did. Audacity. Media Player etc. 

But all I needed to do was change the output in the Master bus. 

@57Gregy

I own 6 audio interfaces but in the case of using a laptop I rarely use them. 

There’s nothing wrong with using on board audio if you’re not recording audio tracks. 
Just listening using good headphones is more or less going to be the same thing plugged into a computer or an interface. 
With WASAPI exclusive there’s isn’t any noticeable playback latency.