Playback works fine with only 1 or 2 soft synths loaded but if I program for a full orchestra with, say, vienna instruments and Kontact, I get a delay every time I press the space bar to start playback and record. Somewhat frustrating.
 
This happened pre bandlab too in my sonar platinum
 
Any ideas? 
 
Thanks  in advance
 
windows 10   64 bit   i7   32GB RAM   Focusrite asio soundcard (firewire)
Sonar platinum bandlab   usb midisport 8x8

'Enable Read Caching' under the Preferences > Audio - "Sync and Caching" has been checked? and recommend a Playback I/O Buffer Size value of about 512 (KB) if you are experiencing any performance problems.

Thanks HIBI, will try this

HIBI
'Enable Read Caching' under the Preferences > Audio - "Sync and Caching" has been checked? and recommend a Playback I/O Buffer Size value of about 512 (KB) if you are experiencing any performance problems.

Tried this, still pause before playback. Funnily enough when I first open the project and press play for the very first time there is no delay on playback

Hmm... Sorry, I don't have further information at this moment. Anyone else?

JJ9

HIBI
'Enable Read Caching' under the Preferences > Audio - "Sync and Caching" has been checked? and recommend a Playback I/O Buffer Size value of about 512 (KB) if you are experiencing any performance problems.

Tried this, still pause before playback. Funnily enough when I first open the project and press play for the very first time there is no delay on playback

Hit 'e' to bypass all Fx and see what happens

Bristol_Jonesey

JJ9

HIBI
'Enable Read Caching' under the Preferences > Audio - "Sync and Caching" has been checked? and recommend a Playback I/O Buffer Size value of about 512 (KB) if you are experiencing any performance problems.

Tried this, still pause before playback. Funnily enough when I first open the project and press play for the very first time there is no delay on playback

Hit 'e' to bypass all Fx and see what happens

Yes, tried this
 
Does anyone else have this problem?

Do you have any look-ahead or linear phase plugins in the project? That will cause a delay.

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your audio interface drivers (maybe make sure you have the latest versions while you're at it). 

Also try exiting Splat, renaming your AUD.ini file then restart Splat so Splat can rebuild your AUD.INI file

That's in %APPDATA%\cakewalk\SONAR Platinum

Also, is core parking turned off?

JJ9
 
Does anyone else have this problem?

 
I've run across this when my project track count got very high when using standard HDs. Have not had this happen on SSDs.