Anyone using EW-Play 4 with Sonar yet ?

I "upgraded" to Play 4, and a project I had been working on with East/West Stormdrum 2 went nutty. It froze up immediately upon opening. I uninstalled Play 4 and went back to Play 3, but that particular project still gave me occassional freezes until I committed the MIDI to audio and deleted Play from the session.
 
To find out if I would have continued problems with my reinstalled Play 3, I started a new project, inserted both Stormdrum 2 and Hollywood Strings, and recorded some parts into MIDI. No trouble at all.
 
They warn on the Play Software Update download page, "If you are in the middle of a project, it may be prudent to wait until the project is complete."
 
I have writing projects in various stages of completion utilizing Play 3. I can't very well move ahead to Play 4 if it's going to mess with all of those projects. Unfortunately, East/West doesn't do it like Sonar, where you can keep old versions of the program on your computer. Once you go with Play 4, Play 3 goes bye-bye.
 

I am using Symphonic choirs wih Play 4 in Sonar X2. There is some serious issues with tempo change. When I do it, complete project start to sound weird and with wrong samples playing. I must restart Sonar and everything works OK. I downloaded Cubase 7 trial and try Play 4 within it. Everything works without one glitch. So my answer is that Sonar has some serious problems with VST. But this is not the first time I noticed this kind of problems, but I gived up some years ago to reporting, nobody listen in Cakewalk...

Bristol_Jonesey
So despite the warning given out by EWQL themselves, you insist that Sonar's to blame?
 
Interesting logic.

I'm not the poster, but I can understand his frustration.  That being said, I've been around midi and computers too long to know there are too many variables involved and no way to be sure it's Sonar to blame.
 
I'm only replying here for clarification:  What warning from EWQL are you referring to?  I don't see anything in this thread about any known issues....  (Okay, I read the wrong post,  I get it... Yep, totally unreasonable to update in the middle of a project, then complain when there's a problem.  Guys, you can complain after the project's done! ).

I bought Ra and SD2 when Play 3 first came out. I had to shelve them for almost a year before they worked properly. I'd guess the same will likely have to happen with Play 4.
 
Regards,
Dan

Avoid Play 4 like the plague! I'm holding off until EW gets it sorted....the support section over on their forum is loaded with complaints (for nearly every DAW out there). Play 3 is worked flawless for me the past three years, and I don't have any reason to move to Play 4.....there aren't really any major advantages. I'm right in the middle of a film score, and the last thing I need is to find out nothing works.
 
Like that old philosophy; if it works, don't change it!

Thanks for all the replies.
 
I think I'll leave it alone for now.
I'm not in the middle of any projects right now, but about to start something I don't really want to risk any fudging about with.
 
Play 3 works pretty well here anyway
 
Cheers - Cliff

MachineClaw
Definitely worth heading to the forum over there and reading.  there is one bug that EastWest know about they are sorting out.
 
one of the interesting things is that Play 4 resets defaults so that's been the majority of peoples problems.  people are reporting major lag in loading samples and it's cause of the defaults.  they change the settings and they get the 30% increase.
 
It's not all EastWest's fault as many people are not reading the release notes, install notes etc.
 
I have EWQLSO Platinum and Play 3 with Sonar X1d and it's problematic - crashes sonar a bunch and I shelved it to work on and with other libraries.
 
Now that Play 4 is out I might upgrade and see if it works better but I need the time to invest in playing with it.

I have the same version as you (both EWQLSO Plat and X1d) and haven't had any issues yet (knock on wood). I am running 64bit with lots of RAM though, so the PC doesn't get that stressed. I wonder if the crashes are truly related to EWQLSO or some other plugin?
 
Regards,
Dan
 

I'm using play4 on windows 8 and the only issue I have is that the drop down boxes on the GUI usually disappear within a fraction of a second making it hard to change settings.

Guess I'll hold off with Play 4 till one patch at least.