All of a sudden, lag.

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2011/05/30 02:40:03 (permalink)

All of a sudden, lag.

I have been working with X1 Studio all day.  Recorded several tracks, no problem, no lag.  Then literally, I close the program, walk away for an hour, then I come back and now I have lag.
 
Here's what happens, I am recording a guitar part using M-Audio Fast Track Pro as the interface.  On the track within Sonar itself, the meters show that upon input, no latency and when I use the Input Echo, I can hear my guitar in real-time.  However, when I go to playback/record with that same setup, suddenly there is a half second delay of what I am playing.  Just all of a sudden it starts doing this no matter what track I use.
 
Ladies and Gentleman, I have went through troubleshooting, reinstall of Sonar X1 Studio, reinstall of M-Audio Drivers, re-install of patches.  Before all that, I went through preferences, did the test, check Devices, Audio Hardware checks, made sure I was ASIO and also tried the WD... whatever setting as recommended from the site.  No avail.
 
I have a i7 Intel 970, 24 gigs of ram, and an SSD Operating System hard drive, Windows 7 64bit and I have lag.
 
Also another glitch that came with this was when I close Sonar, this little menu comes up saying Reset Button for a second, then Windows 7 tells me that that the program stopped working.  Even with the reinstall.  So what's up?  Any ideas anyone?
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    Oddmeister
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    Re:All of a sudden, lag. 2011/05/30 04:35:21 (permalink)
    I have also noticed sonar slowing down and lagging, generally after long sessions.

    I use only samples and soft synths with very little latency (Driver settings in sonar report: 5.8 msecs, @ 256 samples).

    New projects and old (when initially opened) seem responsive with no noticeable latency when playing soft synths. However as time goes by the playback becomes gradually sluggish. I have to resort to inputting midi data via the PRV because the latency becomes so large (I would estimate between 0.5 - 1 sec). There is even a delay before playback when pressing 'play' on my oxygen 8 V2 controller, this does not occur for newly opened projects.

    Sonar does not crash, but I cannot play or record soft synths in real time along with the opened project after a long period of use. 

    In one particular project I am using only 15 effects:

    3 sonitus EQ
    5 sonitus compressors
    1 sonitus gate
    2 sonitus modulators
    1 Ferric TDS
    1 ReaEQ
    1 CM Fuzz
    1 Voxengo MSED
    2 Busses with prochannel active (1 EQ only, the other EQ, Comp and Tube SAT)

    and my CPU is barely being tickled (across 8 cores) according to Sonar's CPU meter.

    I have an intel 920, Asus MOBO, 4 gigs of RAM, two HDD's (one system, one audio), Win 7 32 bit, Sonar X1b PE Build 255 and Sonic core Luna II (X2) sound cards.


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    Re:All of a sudden, lag. 2011/05/30 08:36:20 (permalink)
    I noticed the same thing. When I record I see the meters moving with no lag but the clip renders a second or so late. It does this again and then for no reason the lag dissapears and all is good.

    Very strange indeed.


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    Re:All of a sudden, lag. 2011/05/30 14:42:26 (permalink)
    This seems like definitely one of the more serious issues with X1, if in fact it is not user error or related to a particular user's system.  Your system is certainly robust enough to handle digital audio, easily.   Since several users are reporting it, it once again gives me pause as to when I will upgrade to X1.   I hope you made out a bug report to Cakewalk about this.  

    I am still holding off upgrading for now.  I installed my current DAW in 2003 and have had literally flawless performance and zero problems over the past 8 years, in which I've completed many pieces and 4 albums.  I am currently using Sonar 7. 

    Jerry Gerber
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