Volume Suddenly Too Low

The following is my advice on a previous similar problem. Proved not to be the issue then, but is a good place to check off first before looking elsewhere for the problem. "Hi Rombros - Just a thought, but have you looked at the Windows Audio settings? I have had similar problems to you in the past and found my solution there. I work in XP so don't know where the settings are for you in Windows 7. In XP, I open Control Panel and then Sounds and Audio Devices. I then click on 'Advanced' on the Device Volume tag. There should be four sliders on the mixer that opens - Volume Control, Wave, SW Synth and CD Player. What may be happening is that the Volume Control slider is set OK and therefore the Sound system works fine outside Sonar. But if the Wave and SW Synth sliders are set very low or at zero, you will hear nothing in Sonar as SW Synth controls Midi volume while Wave controls .wav volume. For some odd reason, these sliders have a habit of resetting themselves to zero for no reason at all!"

Hi Clifford - Hope the suggestions sort out the problem for you. It was several years ago that I had the same problem and it drove me nuts too! I seem to recall it was Beagle here on this Forum who pinpointed the problem for me. So I just try to repay his help by passing on his advice for which I remain eternally grateful!

Hi Ojay - I suspect this problem is going to need a far greater technical expertise on HS than I have so perhaps you might need to raise it with the Technical Support people. I don't use a keyboard within Sonar as I write all my music by notation using soft synths. What I found is that if I did not uncheck the "Zero Controllers when play stops" box before I started composing within a new project, the mod wheel of each soft synth would be set to zero after the first play. I am just wondering if something similar has happened to the link between your keyboard and Sonar. Or perhaps even the mixer. If you want to pursue this problem further here, would it be possible to post some screen shots of one of your projects? Just so we could see the tracks and the settings for each track? And perhaps some detail about how the mixer and keyboard are linked into Sonar?

What happens if you drag a pre recorded Wav or mp3 in and play it in sonar ? Is it still low ?

Strange as it may sound have you checked the monitor output faders are not pulled down ? (Not the master fader ) In my case this would read VS-700 Norrie

Only reason I ask is I have done that my self before with out realising.

If its not available through default then it can be draged in from the right side next to the buss tracks

I'm wondering if you unwittingly toggled to Offset Mode by pressing "O" on the keyboard.

It took a while but Cakewalk responded. They seem to think it's all being caused by an ongoing latency problem. At every start up, the problem continues until I keep switching between ASIO or WDM driver mode. But no matter which I start up with, I always have the stuck note, drop-out quirks and problems. I usually have to go through a series of re-starting computer and switching driver modes before it finally acts right. Really annoying and a huge waste of time.