I believe the fix for this is one of the new features of Sonar 8. It would be nice if a patch could be provided to legacy owners, but I suppose that might be a disincentive to upgrade.

ORIGINAL: bbach

I believe the fix for this is one of the new features of Sonar 8. It would be nice if a patch could be provided to legacy owners, but I suppose that might be a disincentive to upgrade.

Unfortunately, I'm still experiencing this with Producer 8.0.2. The recent fixes were geared to Outputs, not inputs.

yorolpal


I believe he's talking about midi "routing I/O" assignments. It actually happens quite often that Sonar will lose those. I used to think it was just upon a new install or update but it's happened to me at other times as well. I have a master template that has all my most used softsynths along with a click track and multiple midi and audio tracks. I also have three outboard hardware sound generators (my controller, an Alesis QS8 and a Roland TD10 and a Korg Wavestation SR) that are set on different and various midi channels. What happens I think is that any time you make a change or add a new midi device in your Global settings you run the risk of having all your midi routing changed as well. While there may be a "quick fix" (and if there is, somone please clue me in to it) I generally just go back and change all my individual tracks back one at a time and then resave the template or project. It is a PITA ain't it?

now that x2 is out,  does anyone know if this issue has been fixed?  I quoted yorolpal because he describes the issue well. 

Never, never, never had this kind of problems with my hardware synth. Yes it is a show stopper for me. I 'm a programmer and I know the problem can be fixed. I fixed it in my own software. Now Cakewalk has to do it.

My hardware synths are mainly off nowadays, but what I used to do was keep a backup of my TTSSEQ.INI
 
SPLAT used to overwrite this if MIDI devices were missing, so copying my backup over the original before starting SPLAT up made sure any missing devices were restored and enabled.
 
Not sure if this still works for CbB, but maybe worth a try.
 

I have had this issue for several years. Sonar 8.53 was the last time MIDI I/O was totally solid.
I have tried copying the TTSSEQ.INI when everything was OK and then replacing the current TTSSEQ.INI when MIDI gets rearranged/renumerated - this has not worked for me. Previously SPLAT would only change most of the 14ish MIDI inputs. Now CbB changes many of the outputs as well as inputs too. I always have all hardware synths and the 2 MOTU MIDI Express XTs on before starting the computer. All MIDI keyboards are on 2 MOTU MIDI Express XTs. Sometimes Windows 7 Pro does not see both XTs when I boot up. I restart the computer as many times as necessary until both XTs are seen. This is troubling because if I have an event about to happen and both XTs are not seen it is a major issue. Any resolution from Bandlab would be greatly appreciated.