Hi Mac, We are neighbors, I'm in Va. Beach. I found the trouble, by unenabling Real Drums and everything went back to normal. When Real Drums are enabled the word "Drums" on the task bar goes green and it takes a few second for the song to start. It also caused the volumn with the metronome to decrease to the point you could hardly hear it.

My midi output driver is "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW S". I could not find the volumn for that but the computer volumn controls are all the way up.

Thanks for your help. Jud