I'm using Music Creator 6 on a Windows 8.1 laptop and I'm trying to enter notes in staff view. I write three eighth notes in succession at the beginning of my track, then two sixteenth notes, then three eighth notes followed by a quarter note, then play it back. I only hear three of the nine notes actually sound out. The rest seem to be skipped. I've inspected the properties of each of the "silent" notes and the durations and velocity look fine. I've always had a problem with Cakewalk MIDI studio software after I've first installed it on a computer, in that the note durations, starting points, dynamics get randomized by some hidden default feature of the software. It usually takes me several months of digging and online research before some smart forum users explain how to stop this from happening. Can anyone help me?
 
Thanks in advance (TIA)
shastew

After doing more searching on this forum I found one posting where someone suggested increasing the mixing latency setting, which is a slider in the dialog found by choosing Edit>Preferences>Audio from the menu. He complained that after increasing the latency to the max, he got most of the missing notes to play, but there were still some that didn't sound during playback. I duplicated his result with my project.
 
I then tried decreasing the latency setting to the minimum, which worked for me. Why an audio setting would affect the BASIC PLAYBACK of an ALL MIDI file with NO AUDIO CLIPS is beyond me. Not very intuitive, IMHO.

Can you please detail your system specs? Basic computer info, and type of sound interface - dedicated audio interface?  ASIO4ALL?  Sound Blaster?  On-board sound chip?
 
Also, please list the Sonar-reported latency values from Preferences>Audio>Driver Settings, your Driver Mode (Preferences>Audio>Playback and Recording), and your playback and record buffer sizes.
 
Thanks, 
 
Bob Bone
 

It can very well be caused by the sound card (factory card) and the latency settings.
 
It can also be caused by the midi start/stop times of the notes being overlapped.  I've had this issue a few times, mostly when editing as opposed to initially writing in staff mode.
 
I'd place my money on the soundcard issue, latency settings and driver used.

Under Preferences>Playback and Recording>Playback, increase the MIDI buffers to 500 or more from the default 250. See if that helps.
And welcome to the forum.