Last night I was using C3 build 3111 on my Windows 10 machine I7 quad core laptop, with no problems. This morning when I opened C3, this error dialogue box popped up. I opened Options and noted that no audio engine was selected. I selected WASAPI which I have been using for several months with 0 glitches. When I went back to the main window I could see some movement on the plugin gain meter when I pressed a key, not as much as it should have been, and there was no audio. I then switched audio engines to ASIO4ALL, Full response on the gain meter and sound was as it should be. I might stay with ASIO but for a problem I was having with a UVI plugin (Wurlie) distorting badly when I used ASIO (no distortion with WASAPI). I’ve rebooted the machine several times and checked to see if another program might be interfering, but no other programs are open and rebooting doesn’t solved the problem. Oh, forgot to mention that I upgraded to build 3112, but the problem persists. Also, checked to make sure that the RealTek driver is working for other Windows apps and yes it is.
12 hours later- just sat down, fired up C3, chose WASAPI and now the audio engine is running fine. That’s great, but it’s bothersome that this seems to have occurred and resolved without apparent cause.
First up - nothing in this area has changed in 3112 compare to recent versions - haven’t touched the audio driver hosting code so I suspect this was something about your environment as opposed to Cantabile.
The error code from your screen shot “13702” - is a pretty blunt error very early in the driver initialization indicating that the WASAPI subsystem failed to locate the device. That the device wasn’t selected in options seems to confirm the device was missing - if it’s not in the list it can’t be selected.
Why the device would AWOL for several hours? I have no idea. When you say the realtek worked in other apps - were you using wasapi driver or something else?
I did not try WASAPI with a different app and hopefully I won’t have to in the future. I agree, something bonkers in my system. I guess that until the perfect operating system/environment is created there will always be occasional annoying hiccups which seem to appear out of nowhere.
Noticed a problem, distorted audio, using CLite on my new machine. Laptop, using Asio4all, sound was good. Now, post laptop crash, on new to me, but older motherboard, did notice distorted audio. Sounds like electronic hiss/ scratch. May be the motherboard, because it is rather old. 2006 gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H Rev 1. Now I’m thinking it’s possibly, mobo, tried reinstalled realtek drivers, I just won’t risk bios burn. The front audio jack doesn’t work. I don’t have knowledge to figure out the problem, I’m immersed in trying to setup some websites, and I just don’t have the resources to get involved in an intermittent audio problem. It comes and goes, anyhow. I close the CLite and possibly do a sys reboot, then it subsides.