[CWBRN-45291]Audio engine often plays short millisecond loop if two projects open

During editing, to hear what I have done so far, I put the Now cursor one or two clips back and hit the spacebar to play.
 
Very often, instead of my audio, I hear a digital whine similar to when you have a digital earth loop or an open cable running near a monitor or some digital equipment. It is not very loud.
 
So I hit spacebar to stop, the Now cursor jumps back to where it started from, I hit spacebar again, and my audio plays normally!
 
I carry on editing, everything is fine for a while, I can hear my audio, then suddenly it happens again.
 
Very strange.
 
I am assembling a song from split clips I made from live recordings. In this I am using straight tracks, not comping tracks. And everything is just audio at this point. No plugins, nothing.
 
I have two projects open at the same time. I am dragging clips from the original recording and dropping them in the new project.
 
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User tenfoot said:
>> This has been happening for some time when copying clips between two open projects. Not entirely sure which version it started in, but it is annoying! I posted about it some time back but no one else seemed tt be having the same issue.
 
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User Kylotan said:
>> Yes! I get exactly this too, high-pitched noise that happens the first time after I switch between projects but is then fixed on subsequent plays.

Wookiee
Are the two projects running at the same sample rate?

If you mean the sample rates displayed in the blue tempo box at the top, then yes.
I just create new projects and start to record, I don't mess with no sample rate settings.
 

Wookiee
Are the clip's at the same sample rate as the project?

They are the same clips.
 
I opened a project, recorded audio, split into clips, opened another project and am now assembling the song by dragging the best clips from the recording into the empty project.
 
 

Wookiee
Why not do it in the same project on separate tracks.  

I was following Craig Anderton's tip of the week on how, in Sonar, you don't really need a scratchpad (this is a new feature in Studio One and now some folks here say they want a scratchpad in Sonar, too.).
 
I am in fact using *two* projects as sources.
I first copied all tracks from both projects into the one project, but the amount of scrolling and shuffling was too much work.
 
So Craig's tip is just the ticket.
 

Wookiee
Just as a matter of interest what Audio Interface and driver model are you using.

 Cakewalk UA-25EX with the most recent driver for Win7-64. Hasn't changed in years.
 
In the meantime I can sort of reproduce the problem. It happens the very first time I try play after I have switched from one project and clicked on a track in another project.
 
It's really just a nuisance, I have conditioned myself to hit the spacebar 3 times.
But perhaps the Bakers could nevertheless have a look, next time they are in that area.

That is serious. Something is wrong there.
 
I used to master entire albums in X3e by opening all songs at the same time and quickly switching between them whilst tweaking EQ, Ozone, Concrete Limiter etc, until all songs sound the same.
 
 Just tried it again in X3e, just to be sure. I confirmed it does not happen there.

Could it be the tail from the other project I have noticed sometimes when I stop the transport and rewind that there is a little bit of the end of the tune played.

Have you tried renaming AUD.INI and letting SONAR build a new one?