Meters Stopped Showing Input Level

If you are trying to record audio the track needs to be armed. If you are trying to monitor the input levels the track needs to be armed. Tracks have two modes record and play back for the meters. To use the record meters and be out of playback mode a track has to be armed.

 I had some issues a few months back like this, POSTED, even arming tracks nothing would show up on meters until, I hit play...then everything works...Still got that kind of bug...But my work around seems to solve the problem once done before doing anything in the project I am making while using Sonar X3e on win 8.1.
And if I close out the session, and reopen it, I have to do the same thing again to get the meters showing signs of incoming audio when arming tracks for recording.
 
So there is something odd with that for me as well, and no one has posted on my thread a solution, now buried in past time of Mur ...So I will follow this posting if you do not mind...Because I think it is a bug, or something is not setup correctly...in Windows for all things to work right....(as usual)....but no one else has the issues we have, as yet in numbers to say it is a Bug, and most probably will never have that status...So it is a select few with it, and we have to solve for it....I guess...?...and then show and tell....wink.
 
I hate troubleshooting!

Sorry we had a power failure due to ice storm conditions...I was going to link this for you.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3047305
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I still have to press the play or record button to get meter levels showing up with my audio desk solutions, when opening new projects or working on one made.
But once done, I believe so far, until this week, after win updates, I found odd behaviour going on...but before that no issues with Sonar and that audio desk recording or playback once doing that work around, other than the occasional loss of audio device message that seemed to be not true.
 
I sometimes loose the audio device on rare occasions, it says, but once I close the window on the bottom right saying so, I see no loss or problem with such a warning being presented for that reason...and audio still plays and gets recorded....
 
Not sure, but I think Sonar for me and thunderbolt 2 using my fire wirer device through it, may be part of my problem.?
And is not widely used by most PC players at this time, as fire wirer is the go to so far for audio or usb, thunderbolt 2 is slowly coming into the now PC platform and Higher ended Audio devices having those ports instilled....eventually it will be addressed somewhere with MS and other apps and third party developers...for me?...and hopefully everyone gets blissful encounters .
 
Best of luck, Happy new year, and keep fighting for bliss!
 
Sir Les.