Does anyone get a "ding " when they start and stop recording?

Thanks for the replies. I followed scook's and changed my windows scheme to "no sound", no change. Brundlefly, I have several different interfaces (Digi-tech VX400, Zoom R-16 (default), line 6 UX-2, and an old Edirol audio capture) I have always had trouble with the ASIO drivers and Sonar, I can't get them to sound right no matter what i do. I have had to fall back to MME (32bit) drivers to get any acceptable recording. Even the newer drivers (WDM, WASAPI (Exclusive & Shared) don't seem to work. I know my interfaces are a little old, but don't have the $ to upgrade right now.. Do you think it is the MME(32Bit) drivers causing it?
I can't use the Zoom R-16 for an input because I am using it for a USB output and you can't do both. The Line 6's ASIO drivers work but I have to run the Gear box app and that is kind of clunky. The Edirol & Digitech are MME (32 bit) only.

Check out the hardware section on this forum. There are numerous threads posted there about interfaces. If you cannot find anything useful, create a new thread in that section with a budget and I/O requirements.

I'm back. Thanks for all your input. I did some investigation and looked at my needs and available equipment and decided to buy a Focusrite 18i20 interface. I got it all set up and got the ASIO drivers installed and guess what? The dings are back. Bummer. I tried to go back to the Line 6 ASIO drivers and the ding was there, too. I don't know why I didn't get them before but now it is everywhere. Chuckebaby, I tried following your suggestions and no change. This is really weird. I don't get it when I am using another DAW (RealTracks or Protools light). I have tried disabling any peripheral  (Anti-virus, Networks, Sounds, etc.) still no change. Anyone still out there with any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

msmcleod
I've found with certain projects, there's a sudden "burst" when starting at bar 1. Moving everything over a bar cures this.

I get that tempo "busrt" when pressing play/space bar every time near as I can tell when opening a project and playing it *for the first time* from bar one, but every time thereafter even from bar one it's fine.

Douglas, so you're getting that standard Windows Ding sound both when initiating record AND stopping record? And it *is* definitely a Windows Ding sound and not some other sound from somewhere/something else? If you've set windows to "no sounds" and still it's doing it, if it were me and having done everything that you've already done incl buying a whole new interface which you said you couldn't really afford at the moment, I'd suspect that something's wrong w/ the windows installation; something corrupt in the registry. I'd probably start by seeing if my windows installation has any kind of repair diagnostic/utility and run through it then do a cold reboot. Failing that, and as a last resort, I'd consider how much time and money I've already put into troubleshooting this, and I'd look into reinstalling windows w/o formatting (make sure you have enough HD space for new windows installation). And failing that, I'd back everything up (should be doing that anyway) and do a clean install of windows, which obviously means a clean install/setup of *everything else* thereafter but that may be your only solution if nothing else works. I know you said the problem doesn't exist when using other daws (presumably on the same pc), but it's possible that windows somehow got corrupt just as it pertains to cakewalk and not other daws. That's just what I'd do anyway. I'd like to know how this turns out so let us know.

Mark, thanks for the suggestion, did you mean just move the marker over one bar and start from there, if so, no change. As I said earlier to csnack I may just reinstall Sonar. 

To add to the above, the OP never said exactly how you are starting/stopping the transport. As is sounds like the "ding" is the Windows error sound (not sure on this), it would be helpful to know if the transport is being started/stopped with a mouse on the transport controls, keyboard entry, or external device. When SONAR has focus, using a mouse or keyboard shortcut should not produce an error, but an external controller sending a signal into SONAR could, depending on how it is mapped. Even with SONAR in focus, the controller is what is relaying the message, and may be sending a message to something not online/recognized.

OK. I looked into the zoom r-16 control surface to see if that was causing it. I reinstalled the r-16 driver and while in the midi-preferences section I checked all the boxes in the record section, assigned the midi sysx echo ports to all the available devices, record 64 buffers and playback 250 ms buffer. Also, in the project/ midi preferences I assigned the midi sync outputs to all available devices, enabled 'transmit  mtc time code' and enabled all available devices. Lo and behold the zoom r-16 started working as a control surface and THE DINGS WERE GONE!! Yahoo. Still I am not sure what stopped them. I am pretty sure it was a midi thing. I disconnected the zoom r-16 and the dings were still gone so I don't think that was any influence. Thanks for all your help and suggestions. Keep writing, playing and recording. Press on regardless. 

Always good to hear a problem solved brother. Now you know how to fix it if it happens again.