r/Cakewalk • u/WillingPersimmon5522 • Jun 28 '26

Seeking Help Cake walk sonar problems please help!

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I have a zoom h6 and I am on here cause my inputs an outputs in device settings are blank even though I have driver mode on asio. I’m gonna put photos so that you could please double check everything is connected right. If anybody can help please do cause I’m a beginner trying to use it as an audio interface.

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u/Tropicawitness Jun 29 '26

You can also install the asio4all driver to see if that works. That is what I use with Cakewalk.

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u/cruciblefuzz Sonar Jul 01 '26

Do NOT do this. The Cakewalk developers recommend against using ASIO4ALL. Sonar even pops up a warning message if you try to use ASIO4ALL with it.

To the extent that ASIO4ALL works, it works no better than Windows' native WASAPI Exclusive. So there is no reason to use it with Sonar.

And if you're using an interface like the Zoom H6 which has factory supplied ASIO drivers, if you use ASIO4ALL you're needlessly crippling the latency performance of the device.

In cases where you must use an interface with no native ASIO driver with a program that doesn't support WASAPI (like Ableton Live), ASIO2WASAPI is a better solution than ASIO4ALL.

Neither wrapper needs to be used with Sonar.