Urgent Help

Hi all, Recently I was using Sonar 8.5 producer edition and i accessed audio settings and changed the Driver from WDM to ASIO. As soon as I clicked apply a window came up saying 'there has been an error and the application must close.' Since then I have not been able to start Sonar again. The plugins will be scanned but then the window will come up saying 'there has been an error and the program must now close.'

Ive got a lot of projects done under sonar so this is really frustrating. Ive got a deadline for handing a composition by Monday so urgent help needed! Id appreciate it

For more help, list the audio card make/model and driver version.
If it still happens after a reboot, maybe you can get past it by first disabling or unplugging the card you are using, then bring up Sonar and configure it to run WDM on a different audio device, say your onboard audio. Then bring back your audio card and set Sonar to access it with WDM as you were working before.
Bill B.

when sonar starts up and the window pops up to scan, click CANCEL immediately.

if it's crashing during scan then it's got to do with something it's scanning.  that doesn't have anything to do with the line6 drivers.

if that works, then you need to disable automatic scanning at startup OPTIONS>GLOBAL>VST FOLDERS until you have time to figure out which VST/VSTi is causing the crash.  when you figure that out, delete it from your system and then scanning should be able to be resumed, if desired.

To disable the VST scan on startup when you can't open SONAR, edit the registry and find HKCU\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR Producer\8.5\ScanVSTOnStartup and change it from 1 to 0.

I cant seem to find 'ScanVSTonstartup.' Does it go by another name sometimes?
 
Also Is there anyway you know of to change the audio driver settings to WDM or MME rather than ASIO without opening Sonar?

Thanks again for all the help guys

I found it but still no luck. Ive literally been trying this whole day to try and make it work and no luck. What I dont understand is how changing to ASIO used to work for me before. Changing it this time suddenly crashed all of Sonar.

As a test I tried installing ASIO4all and seeing if it made any difference. The only change is after its done scanning Asio4all's Icon quickly flashes in the toolbar and then the error comes up.

and guys again I really apprecate your time. Without you  id have no hope

Sorry Beagle, the AUD file I had before came from documetns and settings/program files/ cakewalk etc. this is whats contained in the path that you just showed me

[Aud]
DataDir=C:\Cakewalk Projects\Audio Data
PictureDir=C:\Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache
[Wave]
DefaultSampleRate=44100
DriverID=0
WaveInID=0
OpenInputFirst=0
SmpteMode=1
TimingOffsetMsec=0.000000
TimingOffsetBuffers=0
LatencyMsec=100
BounceBufSizeMsec=0
FlushOnStop=1
EnableMixThreads=0
MixThreadCount=0
EnableSetThreadIdealProcessor=0
AllowOfflineRenderMixThreads=1
UseMMCSS=1
MMCSSThreadPriority=2
MMCSSTaskKey=Pro Audio
FreeMemOnUnload=1
AlwaysOpenAllDevices=0
MinimizeDriverStateChanges=1
RemoveDCOffset=0
EnableAsioBufferSwitchTimeInfo=1
EnableDeviceOutputLatencyCompensation=1
BitsPerSample=16
FileBitDepth=16
RenderBitDepth=32
ImportBitDepth=0
ExtraPluginBufs=0
MixDezipperUsec=50
GapDezipperUsec=500
WaveInBuffers=8
WaveOutBuffersMME=4
WaveOutBuffersKS=2
MeterFrameSizeMS=40
SyncMaxDriftMsec=2
SyncDivisor=8
ProfiledMME=0
ProfiledKS=1
ProfiledWASAPI=0
LinkSendPan=0
LinkPFSendMute=0
StopOnEmptyPlayQueue=0
KsUseInputEvent=0
WaveOutExtraBuffers=1
AutomationDecimationMsec=50
EnableSSEMixing=1
ThumbnailCacheSize=100
ManageASIOThreadPriority=1
EnableLiveADCRecalc=1
UseAlias=0
DropoutMsec=250
StartFadeMsec=0
StopFadeMsec=0
PanLaw=0
DisableIMDuringPlay=0
ShowMultiChannelInputs=1
ShowMultiChannelOutputs=1
[Conexant High Definition Audio (1 in, 2 out)]
MigratedDMA=1
Name=Conexant HD Audio input
InputLatencyOffset=0
UseAsioReportedLatency=1
WidePacking=0
Interleave=2
Use24BitExtensible=0
WDM.DMA.11025=11 11 11 11
WDM.DMA.22050=22 22 22 22
WDM.DMA.44100=44 44 44 44
WDM.DMA.48000=480 960 48 48
WDM.DMA.88200=88 88 88 88
WDM.DMA.96000=96 96 96 96
WDM.DMA.176400=176 176 176 176
WDM.DMA.192000=192 192 192 192
[Debug]
TraceISR=0
RecBufFill=0
[DriverMap.WDM]
UseWaveOut1=1
UseWaveOut2=1
UseWaveIn1=1
[SampleRates]
Count=8
0=11025
1=22050
2=44100
3=48000
4=88200
5=96000
6=176400
7=192000

I tried deleting this one but even so, when I then go on to launch sonar it doesnt give me the wave profiler, it just scans for plugins and crashes again. The AUD file created after this contains only this

[Aud]
DataDir=C:\Cakewalk Projects\Audio Data
PictureDir=C:\Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache
[Wave]
DefaultSampleRate=44100

The DataDir path it specifies is empty. Could that have anything to do with it?

I was. I was in WDM mode but I kept hearing some distortion during the playback so that led me to try and change the driver.

Submit the minidump to CW for analysis. They'll be able to tell you what actually crashed. It may be that it wasn't SONAR at all, but your ASIO driver that raised the exception. It could even be that you don't have an ASIO driver for your interface.

Have you told us what your audio interface is yet?

Have you powered down with a full reboot (of everything) between these changes?