No sound, missing master outputs

I went to the preferences/ driver settings and changed the recording and playback "timing master" to Play 01 and Record 01 and the channel one outputs reappeared (channel 16 disappeared, though). So I assigned them properly, but I still have no sound.
 
So I went to a song that played properly yesterday that I did't change anything on, and now there's no sound from that either. Rebooted, still no dice.
 
To say this is extremely frustrating is an understatement.

robert_e_bone
Is there any possible chance that you don't have outputs 1 and 2 checked in Edit>Preferences>Audio>Devices?
 

No. I just checked, and they are all assigned, just like yesterday when everything was working properly.

There is no sound because you changed the timing master  and now you need to change the routings in your Sonar projects. to fix it, just go through your signal chain and make sure your tracks are routed to the correct bus and make sure that bus is directed to the correct main outs.
 
CJ

Are you looking in your audio settings as Bob has asked to make sure all of your inputs and outputs are checked. 
The timing master defaults to your audio interfaces 1/2. 
Is this a different audio interface from when you used 8.5. 
Did you install the latest ASIO drivers for your interface before installing Sonar? 
 
It just seems weird that a Lynx card would screw up. 
Do you still have 8.5 installed and can check if it see's it properly? 

try renaming AUD.ini
Or full re-personalization with CTRL+SHIFT when starting SONAR. This will overwrite the AUD.ini, Cakewalk.ini, TTSEQ.ini, Master.ins and all the other files in the user directory in addition to reseting some registry entries back to factory defaults.

Sometimes when i have installed an older version of Sonar or P5 after a newer opne the metronome and track templates go missing. So when you open a new project there is no master bus and no sound. Maybe check all the file paths are in order under the global preferneces in 8.5.

Okay, the song I opened up in 8.5 I had previously opened with X3 and saved under a new name (just using "save" doesn't work, probably because that would have tried to save it as an 8.5 project file).
 
So I can just abandon that 8.5 project file and use X3.
I tried opening another 8.5 project file and it opened with the proper input and output settings. I saved it as an X3 project file. I went back to the 8.5.3 file and nothing had changed. Both project files have sound.
 
So everything works now, but there's no guarantee that it will work tomorrow, since nobody seems to know why the output assignments went missing or why they came back.
 
That's very disconcerting. What if I have session players in here and X3 decides to, in effect, stop functioning, with no available fix?
Then, on top of losing valuable time, I'd lose money as well.

Is the interface used as the Windows default device?

scook
Is the interface used as the Windows default device?

It is the only ADC I use.

 

Cactus Music
Just a note, I just looked on my laptop which shows Timing Master as Tascam 03. Not 01 ,, but it works fine. So that's not the problem.
And my Master output bus has Tascam 01 , Tascam 03 or Tascam SPDIF  as output option.
 
The Tascam has 16 ins and only 4 outs plus SDIF. Yours seems to have 16 outs ..correct?
 
But your terms posted:
 
AES16e Play 01, Right ASIO Lynx Lynx AES16e Play 01, or Stereo ASIO Lynx Lynx AES16e Play 01.
 
Seem like your looking at inputs and not outputs or something strange. But I guess each driver dispalys differently.
 
Mine just says a very short group of words as I've made bold above. The same goes for my Scarlett which I think say's  Focusrite Mon 1. etc.
 
Anyhow just something to ponder.
 
I just find it weird that if the Sound cards 01 outputs shows in the Audio options/ Advanced output list that it would not show as an output for a Bus, that's almost imposible.

Lynx Aurora has 16 ins and 16 outs.
 
I'm a music guy, not a tech guy, but it seems that the folks at Cakewalk didn't anticipate how X3 works with Lynx Aurora 16, and didn't test it.
 
In 8.5.3, the master bus output drop down menu, when it's working, let's you select, from the exact same set up, between play 01, play 03, play 05, etc. 8 outputs in all.
 
The way X3 "sees" it, it has to display Left Play 01, Right Play 01, Stereo Play 01, and so on.
 
That's 27 items. The drop down menu only displays 21, so 6 outputs have to get lopped off. That's the 16 series and either the 03 series or the 01. It only actually creates a problem when it won't allow me to assign the outputs to the 01 series.
 
I couldn't screen capture dropdown menus, so I took a couple of pics with my cell phone and uploaded them to photobucket so you would a) understand what I'm talking about and, b) believe me. These are ouitput selections fron 8.5.3 PE and X3 PE, respectively.
 
 

 

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Good idea. If the outputs I need go missing again I'll try that.
The problem seems to be that X3 has to read 3 inputs/outputs for every series.
 
If I go to assign an input channel to record a track, the drop down menu displays Left 01, Right 01, Stereo 01, Left 03, Right 03, Stereo 03, etc.
 
The input drop down menu displays a maximum of 24 items so it only allows 15 out of 16 inputs.
 
I don't have 16 working preamps right now (or a reason to need them) so that isn't a problem right now.