Me too.but trying to record myself(and use a computer for the 1st time late in life),has been hugely interesting,but after a couple of years it sort of really has turned into a nightmare for me hahaheh,I've got to laugh,it must have been the super dumb username(insert facepalm ) for who knows what reason I chose that?- though no I'm NOT changing it now in case of more oddness. I have(had) the Platinum "lifetime" deal!
I started with Pro Audio around 20 years ago (Professional 6). Nah, I just switched my avatar after the Cake announcement. If I WERE to have audio issues running as above, I would use a splitter cable from my computer's speaker jack output, and connect each left and right cable to a left and right input on my audio interface, and then all sounds, both Sonar and all else, would end up running through the audio interface - indirectly for the non-Sonar sounds. My other display monitor uses VGA, also from the on-board video. Long ago, I had trouble with some sort of NVidia video card, and I subsequently got rid of that, and my computer video is using the HDMI connection from the motherboard's on-board video. I do not have audio issues on my system when I play things through HDMI speakers of my TV - it is only the Windows sounds and non-Sonar sounds that use that device. BTW - just so others don't get confused - the Producer version of X3e does have True Pianos, but the Studio and base versions don't. I think it was just AMD and Nvidia anyhow.
Good luck, Bob BoneĪnderton johnnyV Hey Bob, after Craigs thread about Video card Hi Def Audio drivers causing huge DPCLAT issues one needs to approach using HDMI for audio with caution. So, if you are having conflicts with using your on-board audio, then you may want to disable it and use some other method, but if you are not, then I would recommend one of the above choices. On the other hand, I ALSO have multiple HDTV's that I use for Sonar display monitors, and these have their own built-in speakers, so my usual configuration is to set the Windows Default Audio Device to one of the 2 HDTV's.
Either way works, but if audio interface inputs are not available then indeed the separate speakers would be the method chosen.
If I AM running as above, I then have to have either a separate set of speakers for the PC speaker output, OR I split the output from the PC speaker jack and route left and right into 2 inputs of my audio interface. Then, the two sets of audio usages do not conflict, and I could play YouTube at the same time I run Sonar, with no trouble. I do not choose to disable my on-board sound, and instead sometimes assign it as my Windows Default Audio Device, while assigning the use of my dedicated audio interface to applications like Sonar. Once in a while someone will have an issue when their on-board sound is enabled, but from my observations this is not a frequent situation.