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Okay,
I found out I needed specific drivers from Samsung for the M.2 drive. Got those and the Magician SSD optimization app as well. Seems to be working great.
Used the clean instal tool from AMD and reinstalled the graphics driver.

There IS a newer BIOS release available from MSI, but not sure if that is necessary.
I put it into what I think is the lowest Overclocking mode ( they make it so simple now) and enabled XMP mode. Big difference in overall system performance, yet when using Raptor Pro on certain patches, if I play an arpeggio slowly, then increase the speed of the notes, the audio begins to break up horribly as the sustain of the notes begin to overlap.

Been playing with the disc buffer settings, both lower and higher, but I still get breakup. The CPU Meter stays low (I have Load Balancing enabled) but one bar will jump high and the sound distorts. I seem to hear slight distortion even when no cpu bars go high.

To be clear, the playback and recording of Sonar seems to be working good, it's the soft synth plugin, real time sound synthesis part that's totally uncool. Ya know?

Hello,
have you tried to disable all overclocking options ?
 
regards

Yes, I started out with all stock settings.

It seems like it's CPU or the Focusrite related.
Both the CPU and the M.2 SSD are crazy fast. The only other thing I can think of is the audio interface. Since its responsible for the sound.
I have the latest drivers for it. Chuckebaby says a new version is supposed to be out soon.

Thanks again everyone!
Peace

Go into Sonar preferences and disable the 64 bit double precision engine. It used to cause me issues and since disabling it I never have crashes. IT's worth a shot. Also be sure to go into device manager and shut down all those AMD audio drivers. It's just a case of finding that needle in the haystack of drivers, hardware and preferences.

I forgot to ask, is the 18I8 a 1st gen or a 2cnd gen ?
The 2cnd gen is here Windows: Focusrite Control 2.1.7 that driver was released in June.
I thought someone had mentioned a beta release though popped up a few months ago.
That info can be found here http://beta.focusrite.com/
 
 

Bass Rocket,
Something else you might want to verify (if you have a 1st gen unit) is make sure your plugging in to a USB 2 port. The first gen will work in a USB 3 port but not consistently, it will bog down and cut out and cause issues.
I cant recall if the 2cnd gens support USB 3 or not. So that's something to examine.
Also check cables from the 18I8 ( I had a bad USB cable that literally tortured me for weeks).
 
I also agree with Johnny, when problems like this arise, more often than not Latency mon  can be a good friend.
If you have any problems trying to figure out how it works, post here and we will walk you through it.

Sorry I had to use 2 posts right there but the spam filter was eating my post.
(hence I had to put it in 2 comment boxes) This is beginning to turn in to a joke.
Cakewalk needs to fix that spam filter. Nothing like writing a long post trying to help someone and it goes "Poof" like Harold Houdini.

Thanks everyone!
I'm trying not to get too down about all this. I just literally spent a fortune on this "box" and my keyboardist (who is an avid Mac guy by the way) is making jokes about how much I've spent and still have problems.
I really appreciate the help!
 
Another big possibility?
I might have made a huge mistake in the way I saved my projects from the old PC! It was really bugging out and I thought I might not even be able to save the stuff to the external drives. So I just copied the Cakewalk Projects folder only to the external WD Passport drive I have. Then I re-installed Win 10 on the new machine and new M.2 SSD, re-formatting the old SSD and the 1TB WD HDD in the process.
Then I later read that you're supposed to use a .CWB file for backing up? and there's another type of save file you can use as well??? But, after transferring them back to the new M.2 drive, Sonar project icons loaded the songs up fine, minus the missing plugins and such. I think I've got them all reinstalled now.
So could it be my songs are just screwed up in general? I'm probably guilty of making many mistakes during their creation, ya know? All my track bouncing issues and Melodyne non-rendered business, lol. Maybe the songs are just messed up and that's what's giving me issues?
Dam.