I've recently bought a great new computer with an i7 975 extreme edition processor running windows 7 64 bit. I haven't had much time to play with it yet, but on the odd occasion I have I noticed that Sonar 7 and the inserted Vienna Ensemble (vst), and even Kontakt 4) aren't behaving like they used to on my previous simpler setup. I suppose it's down to some setting or other within Windows 7, but I can't find how to rectify matters.
Specifically, I insert Vienna Ensemble as a vst instrument and I can load it up as normal, but when adjusting settings etc I can't hear anything until I click on the Sonar window or minimise the VSL window. The same thing happens with Kontakt 4 which I've just installed - and it's a pain! Kontakt 4 actually locks up after a while.
Sonar's inbuilt vst synthesizers don't behave this way - it's possible to be in their activated window and get sounds to play while tweaking, without having to specifically activate the Sonar window. That's the way I assume VE should behave too - like it used to for me when running XP.
Any help, as ever, would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
John