Hi ladies and gents. My first post on this forum..
 
I've been in the game now for a few years and have worked on many different DAW's since I started but spent most my time with cubase and pro tools software. I'm still a fan of Cubase and always will be(not so much pro tools), but Sonar opened new doors for me. In my studio I worked with Cubase SX3 and moved onto 5 when it got released. Even though known for it's stability, cubase just started crashing after about two years! I thought it was my pc so i built a new one but still it kept crashing for some reason. I know i could've figured out what the problem was but then i remembered working on Sonar 6 once in a small studio i freelanced at and really liked it so decided maybe it'll be a good time for a change(also seeing that my last cubase crash wiped about 6 projects, paying customers btw, off my pc for no reason).
I spoke to a friend of mine that i know worked with Sonar 8 and 8.5 PE and he told me he's moving over to cubase. So i swopped my discs with his, got some updates from cakewalk and since registering i've not even missed my old DAWs. No crashes so far and a smiling engineer. I'm still trying to get over the initial lurning curve so that's why i joined up here to recieve(and give where i can) advice and tips.
I hope we can help each other out.
 
 

sunvar


Hi All
This is my configuration.
Toshiba Qosmio with high end processor + Edirol Fa-101 + Sonar X1 Production.
Not yet installed the patch
 
When i was recording the vocal , in between the recording Sonar X1 broke and got exited. Can anyone help me to solve this problem
 

You would be better off puting this in the X1 Forum rather than this thread.

Also Sonar broke and got excited ???? What do you meen by it broke ? When it Exited what error did you get ?

Everyone is going to need some more info on what the actual problem is for instance Will it still load ? etc etc

Like I said though you are best puting this in the X1 part of the Forum you are more likely to get help there

 
Hi,
 
I assume that you might have experienced unexpected dropouts or pops ( which you mentioned as "broke" and "exited") during your recording session or playback.
This can be solved by the following.
1. In the Menu Edit- Preferences-Audio- Playback and Recording. Change thew driver mode to ASIO, if you are using WDM or WASAPI. FA101 supports ASIO driver mode.
2. Clic k the tab "Sync and caching" in the AUDIO tab. increase the Play back and Recording I/O buffersize in the multiples of 128. by default, the i/o buffer size will be 256 each. change it to 512 and apply and start play back. if droput happens, again change the i/o buffer size to 768 or 1024.
And this value does not affect the audio quality.
 
regards,
 
dennesen.

Guy Flynn


Not a good story for my son, unfortunately.  He started recording his ideas when he was 12 using audacity. He bought a cakewalk UA-1G usb interface which came with sonar le.  He then upgraded to Sonar 7 studio edition because he wanted to do "more" and had so many problems he moved back to Audacity and uses Cubase which came with a new Tascam and digital keyboard that he bought.  Sorry.

wow i thought soanr 7 was solid..what kind of system was he running it on?

Just found out that it was a faulty UA-1G.  Bought from Dolphin Music in the UK.  They have just gone bust.  He did n't realise it was faulty at the time.  Do you know whether Cakewalk had any problems with the UA-1G?

Cheers
from Windy Cambridge

phillipt


I recently moved from Digital Performer to Sonar 8.5.

After moving several song projects from Digital Performer on the MAC to Sonar 8.5 on the PC, the audio is no longer in sync with the MIDI arrangemenets. The MIDI tracks were easily moved and the audio tracks had to be moved separately. When they were reunited on Sonar 8.5 tracks, the audio tracks are no longer in sync with the MIDI tracks even though all audio clips were placed in exactly the same bar location as before.
Can you suggest the proper Sonar tool or process to re-sync the audio with the MIDI?
Thanks in advance!

Hello phillpt. Could this problem stem from tempo differences between DP and Sonar project? If so, try setting the tempo of Sonar project to match that of DP project. Just a thought anyways. Also, you may want to post this in Sonar 8 forum since you're actually looking for help. Probably more people will see the post there.

I started out on a Roland VS-880EX, then on to Pro Tools. This was in 1998-2002 or so. I purchased Cakewalk 4.0 since I was pretty committed to the PC. I have been a dedicated supporter of Cakewalk on through Sonar to now X1. Although I continue to use ProTools M-Powered in the studio that I do contract work in. I prefer to use Sonar 8.5.3 in my own studio. Like I tell my contract studio's owner, until he steps up to ProTools HD, I can run circles around his system with my Sonar and VS-700C! I have been starting to really get into X1, but really waiting until I get a windows 7 based computer to utilize it.

Switched to Sonar from FLstudio after I realized that I had gotten so used to flstudio that every song I wrote was coming out similar because I wrote in the exact same manner every time.  Not to mention I didn't like the pattern based workflow and the playlist editor got really messy and didn't offer very many customization options.  When I purchased a new hardware synthesizer and automation of it in flstudio was pretty basic and a pain in the butt I switched. I tried almost every other DAW out there and just didn't like their workflows or interfaces.  I never gave sonar a chance because i thought the older interface was horrible and cluttered and then I found sonar x1 and loved it.

Now I have the ultimate customization set up in sonar.  I can just click record and start jamming and everything is sequenced in for me.  Very nice.

I am a PC user stuck forver on Logic Platinum 5.5.1 (with Reason) which I really liked and worked well with, but a new PC purchase and move to Windows 7 prompted me to review what I was working with.  I tried the Sonar demo and promptly bought X1 Producer.  I mainly track live audio which is working fine.  I'm finding it challenging to work with the MIDI side of things in X1 ... might be more lack of understanding/patience than anything else but EZDrummer isn't playing nicely with my setup which is slowing things down.

I love the interface.

dysamoria


After finding Sonar's issue with refusing to accept plug-ins as being present when opening projects i've not touched in a version or so (claiming they're missing when they're clearly available to other projects or new projects), seeing how much work i might be losing at the hands of a bad plug-in management system, i may be moving FROM Sonar. i'd been with Cakewalk since Cakewalk Apprentice. In general, i've always found Cakewalk Pro Audio and Sonar to be relatively sensibly laid out and easy to learn, but somewhat ugly and difficult to operate ergonomically (editing automation curves most notably). After spending two years getting familiar with the Mac OS world, i'm finding Sonar is the only thing keeping me on Windows, but with all the lost work Sonar is now causing with my plug-ins (no, it's not ok to tell me to just delete the instance of the plug-in and load a new one, because i lose all my plug-in settings), i'm thinking it's time to switch. i've several times made the mistake of showing loyalty to a product that shows no loyalty to me and i'm done with that line of behavior.

Have you contacted support? Something is obviously very messed up on your system.

Originally, I used Dr. T's software on an Atari. Later I used Cakewalk on a PC from early windows until about 2006. 

When I discovered Live, I used it exclusively until very recently. Unfortunately, my projects are getting bigger and bigger and every time I approach the 32-bit memory limit, Live crashes.

I recently built a 64-bit system and decided to go back to Cakewalk again. It's quite a bit different from the way I remember, but I still see a lot of old stuff (like CAL hasn't changed much).

I like the idea that it is written only for one platform - nothing against MACs per se, they have Logic. That way the developer's can focus on making it work best for that OS.

If I had my druthers, though, I get something that ran on Linux - but that will be a long ways away, I think.

Well,
I tried....
The Studio X1 Pro Mega-Bundle.

I purchased it on 22nd of May thinking it would be easy!

Just today I was sent the reg info for X1Pro, but can I find a link on the Roland UK or the Roland USA site?
No.

Please direct me where, i'd like to use X1 Pro over the National Jubilee Holiday this weekend!

Listening.......

Best regards,

PureHeart  

I started out with Cubase at first then bought Sonar 6 (updated to 6.2.1v) Producer edition back in 05...I never upgraded my Sonar, and still use 6.2.1 and absolutely love it..I still have alot I need to learn (as I had only been using the basics)...I also used to get dropouts, until I scrapped my soundcard and started using my E-MU 0404 2.0 USB audio/midi interface. Now I'am not even close to using up resources that would cause a drop out, no matter how many VST's or softsynths I use on a project....A friend of mine started showing me alot of what could be done with sonar (that I had no clues on) before he moved...Glad I found this forum so I can read up on the many things I'm still green on... 

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