Tremor
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Audio interface working intermittently
This is a regular long standing problem and it's plaguing the hell out of me!!
For no good reason that I can find, when working on a track and adding a VST - which is becoming more often - I get no audio from the VST through the Sapphire Pro 40.
Looking at <Edit/ Preferences> the Sapphire is there and all the I/O show up correctly. When playing a VST, the VU meters in Sonar indicate, showing that audio is outputting - but no audio from the Sapphire. No headphone from it. The Sapphire mixer control panel doesn't show any audio output either.
A Youtube audio from the internet plays out through it OK though and the various start-up audios from the PC also - but nothing from any VST loaded in Sonar.
Last time I had this problem (January), I did a Windows restore which seemed to sort it our - although I have no idea what upgrade caused the problem and no indication/resolution of the problem. I must conclude that an update has affected just Sonar.
Is anyone else plagued with this?? What is causing this and how do I stop it? Should I disconnect upgrades and the internet completely? That would be a problem because so many organisations want to use downloads instead of CDs and there are always the irritating and license issues.
Right now I can't use my studio because the next step is a VST insert - which doesn't work!!
Mike Sonar X3 Studio, Aria PC AMD FX-8350 8-core, Win 7 64 bit Home premium SP1, 16 Gb Ram , Behringer FCA1616, Focusrite Sapphire 40, MOTU Midi Express 128, JV1080, Emu 2000, 05R/W, Yamaha Motif XS Rack, Roland Integra 7, Alesis S4 & QSR, Yamaha MU90, Alesis Nano-Piano, EMU B-3, Yamaha TD6, CME UF-7, Technics piano, Roland XV5050, Roland VP-7 and loads of VSTs
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Anderton
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/27 16:24:23
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Are you using the Saffire's ASIO drivers? If not Windows is probably taking over the drivers and not letting SONAR use them.
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rabeach
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/27 16:58:51
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You state VST but are you referring to VSTi, a soft synth, if so make sure input echo is engaged.
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Tremor
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/27 19:12:57
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Hi Anderton...yep it's Sapphire's ASIO drivers.
Hi rabeach..it's all soft synths - Omnisphere, Torch guitar, Electri6ity and Komplete 9. No Audio out from any of them.
Input echo is also engaged.
Mike Sonar X3 Studio, Aria PC AMD FX-8350 8-core, Win 7 64 bit Home premium SP1, 16 Gb Ram , Behringer FCA1616, Focusrite Sapphire 40, MOTU Midi Express 128, JV1080, Emu 2000, 05R/W, Yamaha Motif XS Rack, Roland Integra 7, Alesis S4 & QSR, Yamaha MU90, Alesis Nano-Piano, EMU B-3, Yamaha TD6, CME UF-7, Technics piano, Roland XV5050, Roland VP-7 and loads of VSTs
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Doktor Avalanche 
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/27 19:33:11
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/28 04:29:03
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Tremor
This is a regular long standing problem and it's plaguing the hell out of me!!
For no good reason that I can find, when working on a track and adding a VST - which is becoming more often - I get no audio from the VST through the Sapphire Pro 40.
Looking at <Edit/ Preferences> the Sapphire is there and all the I/O show up correctly. When playing a VST, the VU meters in Sonar indicate, showing that audio is outputting - but no audio from the Sapphire. No headphone from it. The Sapphire mixer control panel doesn't show any audio output either.
A Youtube audio from the internet plays out through it OK though and the various start-up audios from the PC also - but nothing from any VST loaded in Sonar.
Right now I can't use my studio because the next step is a VST insert - which doesn't work!!
You don't mention anything about your MIDI routing. You do mean it's audio tracks meters moving in SONAR, not those of MIDI tracks?
SONAR PE 8.5.3, Asus P5B, 2,4 Ghz Dual Core, 4 Gb RAM, GF 7300, EMU 1820, Bluetube Pre - Kontakt4, Ozone, Addictive Drums, PSP Mixpack2, Melda Creative Pack, Melodyne Plugin etc. The benefit of being a middle aged amateur is the low number of years of frustration ahead of you.
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Tremor
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/28 08:37:29
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Hi Kalle..
The midi only tracks are fine and not affected. The midi track of a VST instrument shows activity as does the audio level meter of the same VST track.
Everything looks right except there's no audio out from the Sapphire and nothing shown on the Sapphire mixer control panel VU
Hi Doktor Avalanche..thanks for the link, very interesting, but my issue is that there is NO audio coming back out of the DAW at all. It appears as if the Sapphire is faulty, but it shows up as "powered", "locked" and " active", but I think it's fine. I have another USB I/F so I might have to try that and see if it delivers audio.
Mike Sonar X3 Studio, Aria PC AMD FX-8350 8-core, Win 7 64 bit Home premium SP1, 16 Gb Ram , Behringer FCA1616, Focusrite Sapphire 40, MOTU Midi Express 128, JV1080, Emu 2000, 05R/W, Yamaha Motif XS Rack, Roland Integra 7, Alesis S4 & QSR, Yamaha MU90, Alesis Nano-Piano, EMU B-3, Yamaha TD6, CME UF-7, Technics piano, Roland XV5050, Roland VP-7 and loads of VSTs
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lfm
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/28 09:46:10
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Issues I had with trialing Pro 40 was tiny bend in firewire cable - caused audio go away slowly back and forth.
These type of connectors are really sensitive.
Took me an evening of troubleshooting some years ago.
Usually I could see a hint by looking at which core runs audio when starting interface.
Then check that in taskmanager, or if new performance in Sonar works as good - but don't remember if X3 had that.
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Doktor Avalanche
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/28 10:00:57
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Still sounds like routing. Check master bus settings. Also try uninstaling and reinstalling mix control.
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rabeach
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Re: Audio interface working intermittently
2015/04/28 12:23:05
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I also believe routing is probably the issue either in your audio interface mixer or within Sonar. Have you tried using another driver protocol than ASIO. Cable issues and a failing power supply in the pc can cause intermittent audio interface issues.
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