Audio Engine Poblem

ok tech heads, lets see if you can figure this one out.
a friend of mine has been using sonar 2 on his laptop and suddenly there is no sound on any of his songs, the files will play but the audio engine button will not stay down, the sound card is fine so thanks to anyone with any suggestions

First thing I'd tell him to do is to log on the Internet, join this forum and post all of his hardware specifications. It would be easier than doing it through a 3rd party.

Try re-installing SONAR--it won't hurt but it could help.

have a good one
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Hi RE- sonar 4 producer edition-
For some reason I am unable suddenly to create a Bundle file.
I have tracks with 7 or 8 midi tracks and all I'm trying to do (like I've done numerous times before) is mix it all down into a Bundle file. It doesnt record anything.
All that has changed recently is that I have changed some of the settings in audio options to stop the "drop outs".
I have put everything back where it was and been through all the trouble shooting excercises in the help section but it still won't record the midi tracks onto a audio tack.
I also tested recording audio with a mic and it records audio fine like that.
Any HELP would be great!!!!! I'm tryng to finish my album here!!

ORIGINAL: Lunacy

well the reason i'm posting this on his behalf is because he knows nothing about this sort of thing. Ok, when i loaded a project on sonar the audio engine button would not stay depressed, then when i pressed play the timeline was moving fine but there was no sound, also, the meter bars in the audio tracks weren't moving even though the levels were fine, the soundcard is not muted cause the sound from windows media player was fine, does sonar have a mute button that i don't know about. he says he didn't change any of the settings and no new programmes have been installed. hope that helps a bit

Tell him to use a Restore point a few weeks ago when everything was working ok.


He didn't upgrade his Windows installation in any way via autoupdate?

ORIGINAL: Lunacy

well the reason i'm posting this on his behalf is because he knows nothing about this sort of thing. Ok, when i loaded a project on sonar the audio engine button would not stay depressed, then when i pressed play the timeline was moving fine but there was no sound, also, the meter bars in the audio tracks weren't moving even though the levels were fine, the soundcard is not muted cause the sound from windows media player was fine, does sonar have a mute button that i don't know about. he says he didn't change any of the settings and no new programmes have been installed. hope that helps a bit

When I had these exact symptoms, it turned out to be because the "Input Sync" in the Audio setup was not assigned. As soon as I assigned it to the soundcard, no problemo.

Bypass all your plugs on all your tracks and put em back 1 by 1.

This sounds like your symptoms?

The audio engine won't start when I start playback- no sound coming from any tracks but now time advances. Audio Engine button is grey and does nothing when clicked. Reset button does nothing. Record on track strip will not enable. Record on transport is greyed out. Restart Sonar does nothing. Reboot machine does nothing. I tried several projects - even tried switching interface hardware.

It happened to me in PE 4.04 - the solution was to uncheck the MUTE ALL button in the Windows Mixer control. It was and remains a mystery how it got checked - I chalk it up to FM (F'n Magic ).

Unfortunately, I have a similar problem NOW in PE 6.0 for which that is not the solution. It seems to stem from changing the sample rate between projects (48K vs. 44.1K). I had a number of switches that worked over the last few weeks but that's all over now (baby blue).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA

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