xabiton
Are you using Balance as well? I am on Windows 7 home premium yes. When I called support on this issue the first time they had no idea what Balance was or Propellerhead for that matter. It was very disencouraging to say the least but I called last week spoke with a guy named Dan who had been helping me via e-mail support (though sometimes waiting over a month to email me back) and apparently this issue will not be fixed in x1. I am definately demoing X2 first but if these issues are not fixed I am highly considering going Studio One 2 Professional with a crossgrade rather than Sonar X2 Producer Expanded which is where I will likely go if I upgrade with Cakewalk. I love the Cakewalk plug ins and have not had a single issue with those in any environment I have tried them in.
I'm using the art usb.. its a piece of work.. I'll say that. Most of audio dropouts come from A. Having a frozen rewire synth that has not been deleted. B. having any sort of anti-virus/spyware/malware/firewall running the background. C. not having certain, "extra windows services," turned off. D. not having a proper configuration of drivers ( in both sonar preferences and windows control panel )
When I have this stuff set up proper.. I get a rare audio dropout here and there.
What's your entire setup look like? Asio -- latency? Control Panel? got some jpegs of your settings? and your windows startup? whats in there.. finally, who does your anti-virus? mcaffee? norton? spybot?
Cheers