Jim Roseberry
To get rid of the Magix Low Latency ASIO driver:
Go into the Registry...
HKLM>Software>ASIO - delete the Magix Low Latency ASIO driver entry
HKLM>Software>WOW6432Node>ASIO - delete the Magix Low Latency ASIO driver entry
Note:
If you've got a piece of hardware that functions as an ASIO audio interface (and you know you don't want to use it), you can use this same procedure to eliminate that particular ASIO driver.
Thanks, Jim! I know this is replying to a post from quite a while ago, but I'm super glad I found it as it solved a recent problem I'd been having with SONAR Platinum (most recent version), and which got even worse with Cakewalk by BandLab.
For context, I'd picked up Samplitude Pro X3 Suite when they had the "crazy deal" late last year. I haven't had much time to try it out yet, and I'd been alternating between DAWs (SONAR, Cubase, Studio One) as I'd do new, or remix, projects.
When I'd go back to SONAR, I'd often find that it had developed a new problem related to switching sample rates. In the past, if I'd been operating at 44.1 kHz, and I loaded a 96 kHz project (most of my older projects are 44.1 kHz, while almost all my new projects are 96 kHz), there would be a brief burst of white noise as SONAR told my MOTU 828x interface to switch settings, but then things would work as per normal, with the occasional exception of needing to reassign the Master bus to the right hardware interface. (I never pinned down when this happened and when it didn't, but it was pretty painless, so it was only a minor inconvenience.)
Now, however, in SONAR, I'd get a cycle of events where it would have that burst of white noise, put a dialog box up that came and went too quickly for me to read, put the hourglass up for a while, and finally let in some user interface action for a very brief moment. The exact order may have been different from what I am outlining, but the cycle was constant. Eventually, I'd have to close SONAR, then jump through some hoops to set the sample rate (possibly also in the default settings as well as on the ASIO control panel for my device), then again try loading the project. This issue also did affect some other DAWs, albeit in different ways (e.g. Studio One wouldn't even attempt to play audio).
When Cakewalk by BandLab came out a few days back, I found that the problem was more severe. The cycle still occurred, and now the former dialog box became a little banner in the notifications area, which, thankfully, was now readable, saying something about the MAGIX Low Latency Driver. But when I got to closing CbB, it would crash instead of just closing gracefully. And again I'd have to figure out what specific hoops to jump through in each specific case.
With the newly readable banner in mind, I set out to searching for information about problems in this area and/or how to remove the MAGIX Low Latency Driver, since I doubt I actually need it for anything at this point (I wasn't even using it in Samplitude), and I eventually came across this thread. Removing the driver per Jim's instructions resolves the switching sample rates issue in CbB (I'm assuming it will in SONAR, as well, but, short of finding issues in CbB that SONAR doesn't have, I intend to try using CbB instead of SONAR moving forward).
While I do think SONAR and CbB (and some other DAWs -- Studio One, in particular) have an issue in this area, especially since I wasn't even using the MAGIX driver, I'm very happy to have this workaround/solution to stave off the frustration of having jump through hoops most every time I'd go back to SONAR to work on a project.