SONAR 6 HELP!!!!!

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Member Since: Mar 02, 2009

Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and have been using Sonar 6 for a few years now and have been able to solve all my problems with it up until this point. Recently while recording, one of my songs played no audio when I re-opened it, though it played through with no audio, also when I export the song, the time shows up as 0:00 though it's actually 5:03 in Sonar. I then went on to discover (thinking I could just re-record it) that whenever I try to record now, I get a dropout within 5 seconds every time, and am unable to record because of this.
I use Windows Vista and M-Audio.
My driver is set as Fast Track out 1/2
Driver bit depth is 16
Sampling rate 44100
Buffers in playback que: 2
Driver Mode WDM/KS, but I have also tried ASIO and MME to no avail.
I also don't believe it is because of space problems, etc.
I can't figure out why this happened out of the blue, and it is somewhat urgent! Please help me if you can!!!!!

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Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Mar 02, 2009 11:33 am

Welcome to HRC!

Are you defragging on a regular basis? Is you audio on a different physical disk than the application and OS? Do you have the current driver? Install any new programs lately? Maybe one that runs in the background? What kind of latency are you getting?

Member
Since: Mar 02, 2009


Mar 02, 2009 11:52 am

Thank you much for the reply.
I do defragment fairly regularly, and I will do so today just to test it out.
How would I know if the physical disk is different from my application and OS?
My driver should be fine, unless it became unusable while I was in the middle of using Sonar?
I have not installed any new programs.
and my latency seems to be very good.
In Sonar itself, once I hit record, nothing will happen for 5 or so seconds, then a bar of "recording" will pop up and there is a red area of the bottom of the screen that says DROPOUT

Prince CZAR-ming
Member
Since: Apr 08, 2004


Mar 02, 2009 11:53 am

also, is it on the internet? can a program download it's own new stuff, and install it? are you running IE instead of something safe?

I had my niece's PC load it's own vista update, and it disabled browsing. Not all internet, but the browsers wouldn't work. I rolled back and it worked again.

I'd guess first that something loaded, and is now having it's way with your processor / memory / bandwidth.

Perfmon will help you if want to see what your processor or memory is doing when things chug. Starting diskmon and watching disk usage may shed some light too.

(someone correct me if that diskmon thing is wrong, it's been awhile).


Prince CZAR-ming
Member
Since: Apr 08, 2004


Mar 02, 2009 11:55 am

also, do a task manager, and see what processes are running, then which one gets real busy when the dropout occurs. It may be a malware program, phoning home.


Member
Since: Mar 02, 2009


Mar 02, 2009 11:57 am

I have automatic updating for Vista off, I think it will get me into problems if it is on... and Sonar does not update itself as far as I know.
Perhaps it was a simple setting I changed within Sonar 6??? Any ideas?

Prince CZAR-ming
Member
Since: Apr 08, 2004


Mar 02, 2009 12:00 pm

not for sonar, i've not used it.

But, if you have changed something, that's certainly an area for investigation.

do the troubleshooting i mentioned.

(perfmon and/or task manager)

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002


Mar 02, 2009 09:40 pm

Probably not a setting you changed in Sonar. A dropout means it lost communication with the audio interface because the system was overloaded.

I would start looking at what vista has running in the background that you can't see. How long have you been running it on Vista? I honestly don't remember how well 6 dealt with Vista either. But truthfully Vista may be the problem.

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