Sonar can’t play along with audio playing from another program
I’ve been using Sonar Artist and a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (1st gen) on Win10 for quite a while. I’ve often found it useful to play along in Sonar with audio from Youtube, iTunes, or Groove music. Sometimes I’m trying to play with ideas for scoring over something, or just trying to learn a piece. It’s always worked fine.
Now I bought a new PC and reinstalled everything, moved the USB 3.0 cable for the Scarlett from the old PC to the new, and now Sonar gives a whole series of Audio Driver Error if other sound is playing. “The following drivers either do not support the current audio format or are In use by another application”: Focusrite USB 2.0 audio SPDIFL, DAW 7. Then a “missing audio outputs” dialog saying “the following audio outputs not available” missing device spdif. If I pick another device, it just says that doesn’t support the format either.
The versions of Windows, Sonar, and Scarlett drivers are all the same.
Preferences: same audio playback and recording settings as on the other PC that worked (ASIO, no dithering, no sharing drivers w other programs). I tried sharing drivers too and still can’t play simultaneous audio.
Any other audio programs can play over each other, like iTunes and Youtube at the same time. Sonar is the only program that has a problem and it’s with any other application. If I do Sonar first the sound is fine, and then any other application won’t play sound (how it reacts depends on the application – anywhere from silence to hanging).
I’ve gone through everything I can to make sure it’s the same and yet it still doesn’t work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the Scarlett drivers and mix control. Please help!