I had SONAR X3 Producer working fine, then I updated to X3e and now my audio setup is all screwed up and nothing plays.  Plus I get tons of errors about recording devices not being able to function, and master buses silent and other things.  Sorry, very frustrated right now!

I kept X2 Producer when I upgraded and it works fine.  The settings look the same to make things worse.  I do remember seeing something about profiling in the update to X3e, so maybe that was the issue.

Any thoughts on how to unravel this mess by chance...grrr....

You may want to reset X3 to factory defaults by holding the CTRL and SHIFT keys while starting SONAR. Then configure X3 again. Consider adding information about your hardware and software configuration to your .sig or post. It may help with further suggestions.

I did that and now I get a message:

"Unable to open audio playback device.  Device may not support the current project's audio...blah"

The thing is, it supported it just fine before I bumped to x3e...

I'll just attack it again tomorrow...had enough tech for the day.

Can you check if you have issues with new projects (not using any template)?
 
X3E may have triggered off a bug with your driver or a library dependency issue:
The latest driver is 6.1.10 and you can install it here:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Fast-Track-Pro-Drivers
 
I also recommend running windows update several times (including optional) in case of library issues (such as C++).
 
Cheers...
 
Alex

I have the latest drivers...what about rerunning this Wave Profiler?

The wave profiler is used for WDM driver mode. If you are using WDM run the profiler. Check the driver mode, it should be set the same as X2. Assuming X2 is working properly.

Yes, the X2 is WDM...but I had X3 setup as ASIO before this update...damn.

My experience with M-Audio is both drivers worked about the same. It has been a few years since I used an M-Audio device though.

I was going to recommend renaming aud.ini (search google for details) but Scooks suggestion might do the same thing.

and what I also said...

Can you check if you have issues with new projects (not using any template)?

I also recommend running windows update several times (including optional) in case of library issues (such as C++).

Thanks...