good luck!

One suggestion from another forum is to create a second user profile that boots up with no background services, no internet, no firewall, no webcam, no autoupdate, nothing but basic operating system and all run the DAW from that profile, then when you want to use other programs log out and log back into the main user profile. That way you always have everything off.

Don't get to down on Toshiba, there are tons of folks using them for this, it just might take a small tweak or two.

I wish i could advise better but to date i have never recorded on MC5, I am still using MC3, if I use MC at all. I bought MC5 for the instruments.

THAT is a truly GREAT idea. I wonder how hard that is to set up.

Robo, you mentioned creating another user account with limited access. I've created that other account, but any idea how you limit which programs run?

Nope i have not done that yet myself, as i have not had any big issues. But i would imagine that a bit of internet searching might turn up a plan. I will dig as weel and see what pops up.

Someone may have said this and Beagle has already touched on it, but the ASIO spec itself is limited to using only one driver set at a time. Meaning a program (or programs) can only access one set of drivers via ASIO. This is a limitation of ASIO, not Cakewalk.
Even in WDM mode, which does allow for multiple interface/driver access, it is unwise to use two completely different audio interfaces for playback and recording timing masters. You may come across sample clock mismatch issues, driver conflicts and other anomalies when trying this. Not to say that this isn't possible in WDM or MME, it just isn't recommended.
Unless you're going to use a master clock to lock in all of these digital devices, it would be best to use the one set of DA-AD converters in your system. Use the M-Audio as your primary card for playback and recording. You'll then need to route the Line6 and Bose L1 system to and from the M-Audio using analog connections. You will eliminate MANY variables when set up like this.

Best regards,

I've thought of using different profiles to limit default services, but I don't know of a way to do this.  In the old days you could simply profile using autoexec.bat/config.sys, but now things like fw/antivirus and other services seem to be globally controlled.

If anyone knows a way - I'd like to know too!  I did once have a tool that was used as a pre-launcher for the MS-FS.  It allowed you to select services/apps you wanted to offload.  When you launched it, it closed them and then launched FS to maximise it's performance.  On closing the FS session it would open them all up again. Neat. Something like that would be great for Sonar but my coding days are long gone.

Edit: Might try some of this and see if it helps.  But I still suspect that the core things will be global settings rather than Current_User.
http://www.sevenforums.co...p-programs-change.html

Hi there,

sorry for "taging along" on this thread, but I am having exactly the same problem, albeit with a different setup. I am running Cakewalk PA 9 on a Sony Vaio laptop. I switched every single possible culprit out (i.e. no onternet connection, no anti-virus software, etc.) and I still get dropouts every minute or so and these are driving me nuts!!!

I keep reading about "changing the driver mode seting", but there seem to be no such option on my Cakewalk interface anywhere. As far as I know the drivers are OK.

Before simply ditching Cakewalk and relying on something like Audacity whenever my recording project involves audio recording, could someone shed some light on possible causes? Just like the original poster, I am dumbfound to find that Cakewalk is the better siftware and gets ditched by so many users because it is so damn hard to get it to work in the first place. I understand that it is more complex, etc., however the level of knowledge required to make it run (i.e. advanced knowledge on system's configuration) is keeping me away from it.  Sorry for the rant, but this is endlessly frustrating!

You may have several issues.

First.... it's always a good idea to start a new topic thread rather than "tagging along" on someone elses.

next... Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 is really old.  It might not run properly because the operating system it's designed to run on is pretty old.... I had CWP8 and it was a Win 95 design.  

My best advice is to use Audacity unless you are willing to up grade to MC6 abd since you are on a laptop, you will also need an external audio/midi interface to be able to use ASIO drivers which are designed for recording. 

Cake software works perfectly fine when you have the right hardware and sound drivers. If you try to "get by" with out investing in the proper hardware tools to do the job properly, yes... you will have all sorts of problems that will cause you to talk bad about Cakewalk's fine software and you will likely go away mad and ticked off. 

What is your Cakewalk interface and have you downloaded and installed the latest drivers for it for your operating system? What is your operating system and is it 32- or 64-bit?