No sound/metering with 828es ("audio engine inactive")

Ok - some updates

It seems like its more a windows 10/Motu driver issue than specifically with Cubase… But im still hoping someone here can help as i am a Cubase Pro user after all…

I plugged my bass in to make sure the hardware itself was working, and sure enough it worked a treat… Proper levels and metering and i could monitor myself through the Motu mixer with no issue…

However, to recap:

  1. Windows detects and sees the Motu and i can select it as an audio device - but no playback/metering through the motu…
  2. Cubase can see the Motu Pro Audio asio driver and i can select it - but no metering/playback in either Cubase or the Motu and Superior Drummer 3 tells me “Audio Engine Inactive - Check your audio device” and the latency in Cubase shows as either ?? or 0ms depending where you look…
  3. Foobar2000 (the only other program i have that can use asio drivers) - no playback/audio

This is a relatively recent and clean PC - Literally only put together a few months ago - and my old Motu828mk2 worked a treat…

Im starting to go nuts! lol