Windows 10 15063 update caused MIDI dropouts!

Hi all,
This is my first post on Cakewalk's forum so I felt that I should make it informative. Yesterday I updated Windows 10 to the latest 15063 "creative" update and all was well except for one very important thing. I fired up SP, loaded a project I'm currently working on, and hit the space bar. To my dismay small portions of MIDI playback would arbitrarily dropout. Prior to the update I had yet to experience such drama. I raised some buffer settings to no avail. I raised ASIO buffer size in both VSL controller and SP but ZIP...nada...nothing. The dropouts kept coming. So what did I do, I reverted to the prior version and BAM! No dropouts. I should have left well enough alone especially when I'm not experiencing any issues at all. I just wanted to see what I can see. I suffer from EAS.... Early Adopter Syndrome. 
 
Hope this may help someone.
 
Regards,
Sajid

mudgel
So what solved the problem?

As I stated, I rolled back to the previous version of Win 10 and that took care of the issue.

Your right, pardon the title.

soundtweaker
Midi working fine for me on 15063. What VST's are giving you dropouts?

Change your midi buffer from 250ms to 500ms
 

sajidjimenez
Raising buffer levels was the first thing I tried but the dropouts still continued.

Midi buffers?
Prefs > MIDI > Playback and Recording > Prepare using xxx Millisecond Buffers

I raised both MIDI and ASIO and I still would get dropouts.

deswind
How do you roll back the windows update? Is it with system restore points?  Is there another way?

There are a few ways to get it done but this is how I did it:
 
Start > Settings > Update & Security > Update history > Uninstall updates > "To uninstall an update, select it from the list and then click Uninstall or Change"
 
That's how I did it.
Hope that helps.
 
 

Thanks tons ! ! ! 
 
 
 

sajidjimenez

deswind
How do you roll back the windows update? Is it with system restore points?  Is there another way?

There are a few ways to get it done but this is how I did it:
 
Start > Settings > Update & Security > Update history > Uninstall updates > "To uninstall an update, select it from the list and then click Uninstall or Change"
 
That's how I did it.
Hope that helps.
 
 

Hi. It seems I keep having the same trouble with Win 10 creators update.
When checking that all programs run smooth, my Sonar Professional had dropouts when trying to export a mix (complete arrangement). It happened always at the same time point, so I suppose it has to do with one of the VStIs, a Roland synth. This starts playing 2 mins after beginning of the piece, when the bouncing gets there audio engine stops. I cannot close Sonar. Only way is by clicking on the X, and say close anyway. An error report is being sent but only to Microsoft. I'd love to find that one to relay it to the tech support @ Calekwalk for possible fixing (awaiting next update by end of April).
Thankx.

Thanks for following up. In fact, roll back isn't my strategy, expecting that sooner or later the update becomes inevitable. So I searched and found the Windows error reports pertaining to the subject. I contacted Cakewalk support for tech help, and attached those reports.
Let's see what happens next.

Not yet, but if the soundcard drivers are affected by the update, there should be new files. I'll check by the soundcards update monitor.
But I think this is not much probable, since only 1 VSt-instrument is affected. For checking, I took a track which is really loaded with a lot of VSt-I and VSt-Fx.
But I shall check for updates for the soundcard.