I think if you right click on the metronome button in the transport bar, it does a popup for metronome settings???

Or it may just be a quick link to the preferences menu, I can't remember and not in front of the DAW

please dont take this the wrong way but ithink cakewalk has there hands full right now with problems that may be just a little bit more important than losing 4-5seconds closing a preference menu..it takes about 3 for mine to close.i understand your metrodone question but unless your waiting in excess of 15 seconds for your menu to close.(which is not normal.than this issue is normal

this is pretty simple isnt it..this isnt 8.5.3..is it??

Sure you seems to have time to lose with my thread. So few seconds more or less with Preferences Menu, I understand you don't care... ^_^

I bet it has something to do with being able to switch audio devices without having to exit SONAR to use the device

...wicked


The browser? Sheesh man when you switch from any other tab to "media" you get a several second pause while SONAR thinks about it. The file browser is something Cake have trumpeted for the last few versions and it is still a little clunky. Given how fast and elegant Live and StudioOne's browsers are I wouldn't really brag until I knew I had a slam dunk.

Screensets? Big pauses there too. Sometimes total hangs even. To me screensets only have value at all if they are instantaneous. SAW+ had 'em and it was great. Hitting a button to get a different view and then having to wait to load it means I should just adjust whatever  the current view is instead, since it'll take the same amount of time. 

I'm actually far happier than the grumpy tone above suggests, but they are two issues that seem to not go away and this being almost relevant figured I'd share.

Wicked both those issues might be taken care of with disabling your floppy drive in your BIOS. My access to Browser and switching Screen Sets is almost instant and it's been reported that even though you may not have or use a floppy the BIOS tries to check there anyway slowing down both Screen Sets, which sometimes include the browser, and the browser.

Worth a try.

This from the knowledge base   http://www.cakewalk.com/S...reader.aspx/2007013218

Opening Browser and/or Switching Screensets containing Browser slow on some computers

The information in this article applies to:

• SONAR X1

If you are experiencing slow load times when doing either of the following:

• opening the Browser
• creating a project from a template containing the Browser
• switching between Screensets that contain the Browser

You may be able to speed up the performance.

When the Browser is opened, the Media Browser portion of the Browser searches your hard drive for content. It will also search any external hard drives, optical drives, or even a floppy disk drive that you have connected to your computer.

In Windows, if you go into Start | Computer do you have a Floppy Disk Drive listed under "Devices with Removable Storage"? If you see a Floppy Disk Drive listed but do not have one physically installed, you may still have drivers enabled for a Floppy Disk Controller that is built into your computer's motherboard.

Trying to open a Floppy Disk Drive in Windows without having a physical Floppy Disk Drive can take time before Windows detects that there is no media to be read.

If this is the case on your computer, it may be slowing down SONAR's Browser performance.

To see if this is impacting the performance on your computer, try doing the following:

1. Open the Run Command by holding down the Windows key on your keyboard and pressing "r"
2. At the run prompt, type the following: devmgmt.msc
3. Click [OK]. This will open the Windows Device Manager
4. Click the [+] symbol to the left of "Floppy Disk Drives"
5. Right-click on the "Floppy Disk Drive" listed below and select "Disable"

NOTE: this can always be re-enabled at any time by right-clicking and selecting "Enable" .

Afterwards, test opening the Browser and switching Screensets to see if it loads faster.

Keep in mind that this will not speed up the performance of your computer overall. If you are experiencing overall performance issues, we recommend contacting Technical Support for further assistance.

Version: 1.00, Last Updated: 1/7/2011

tarsier

from the knowledgebase: When the Browser is opened, the Media Browser portion of the Browser searches your hard drive for content. It will also search any external hard drives, optical drives, or even a floppy disk drive that you have connected to your computer.

That is probably a very poor design choice.  Why would it search everything? How many of us have audio content everywhere? Why not have it just search its default audio content path, and let us add certain other folders or drives that we might want it to search? Or even have a little checkbox somewhere that says "search everywhere" but have it un-checked by default?

Do the developers and testers only have a couple of fast hard drives attached to their machines? I've got a lot of network drives mapped and the browser is so painfully slow to use I don't ever open it--unless I mistakenly hit the 'b' key. (gotta un-map that one...)

Let me see if I understand. Your browser is painfully slow so you don't use it? And it's just a poor design decision?

Can I assume that it's OK the way it is for you, and no more help or advice on how to perhaps get it work faster is needed/wanted?

My preferences menu closes immediately and you're right cb, it is OT. I thought I'd help wicked figure out his slow browser but no good deed eh?

...wicked


THere's some lag time across the board in various functions actually. The browser? Sheesh man when you switch from any other tab to "media" you get a several second pause while SONAR thinks about it. The file browser is something Cake have trumpeted for the last few versions and it is still a little clunky. Given how fast and elegant Live and StudioOne's browsers are I wouldn't really brag until I knew I had a slam dunk.

Screensets? Big pauses there too. Sometimes total hangs even. To me screensets only have value at all if they are instantaneous. SAW+ had 'em and it was great. Hitting a button to get a different view and then having to wait to load it means I should just adjust whatever  the current view is instead, since it'll take the same amount of time. 

I'm actually far happier than the grumpy tone above suggests, but they are two issues that seem to not go away and this being almost relevant figured I'd share.

Wicked - I don't have a high powered system by any stretch and I don't see any lags at all in the browser. I can for example switch from my default media directory on my D drive to the Cakewalk content folder on C - and there is absolutely no lag at all. Very quick and responsive. I can switch from media to plugins to synth tabs and back with no lag at all. Virtually instantaneous here. I think the recommendation to check if a floppy drive is being accessed might be a good one.
I have never had an issue with screensets in X1A - certainly didn't notice a difference going to X1B - but I will take a closer look at them when I have a chance.

Mine opens and closes right away.
Would be nice if the Prefrences shortcut key would work when a project isn't open also.

It's also why I wrote this thread : to know if it comes from Sonar X1 or my config, despite of the fact that it perfectly works in Sonar 8.5.3...

My Specs :

- i7 920 @ 3,4 Ghz
- 12 Gb RAM
- NVidia 9800 GT (1Gb RAM Fanless)
- VS-700C
- Windows 7 64bits

Do you think it could come from graphic card but why ? And why it's instantaneous in 8.5.3 ? :(

Manolo


It's also why I wrote this thread : to know if it comes from Sonar X1 or my config, despite of the fact that it perfectly works in Sonar 8.5.3...

My Specs :

- i7 920 @ 3,4 Ghz
- 12 Gb RAM
- NVidia 9800 GT (1Gb RAM Fanless)
- VS-700C
- Windows 7 64bits

Do you think it could come from graphic card but why ? And why it's instantaneous in 8.5.3 ? :(

I wouldn't think it is the card - I have an NVidia 9500 GT myself. But maybe a setting. But, as Humblenoise points out, maybe the floppy controller is the culprit, especially if you are also seeing the long delays when accessing media using the browser. On my system, the browser is also very speedy. Floppy disabled from bios right away.

I am not at my DAW at the moment so I can't check. I will say, though that I haven't updated the driver in something like a year. It is one of those things that if it is working, I don't generally update.

Hey Manolo

I have the same video card, using 266.58 drivers on a single monitor, 60Hz, 1920X1080, 32 bit color.
Full hardware acceleration, Normal size DPI, video card BIOS version 62.92.6D.00.07.
WinXP, DirectX 9.0c

No problems here - Preferences close in under 1 second.

Thinking aloud: closing preferences writes the changes to aud.ini and the registry (I think the count-in is actually registry, but closing Preferences has to write everything out just in case). Is there any reason why your system would have trouble either writing aud.ini (like it's on a removable drive?), or trouble writing to the registry? I know both of these are unlikely, but worth a thought perhaps?

Cheers, Peter.

Well, the drivers works ok but that has not solved the lag. I'll install X1 on a Laptop and will see how it reacts.