Does Sonar have audio time limit?

I seem to recall there being a limit but it's like 4 hours or something. I could be completely mistaken on that but it certainly should not cut out after 18 minutes.

soens


I have several audio tracks about 20 min each.
 
I want to record them to cassette with a 30 sec space between each one.
 
So I placed them all in tandem 30 sec apart on one track and hit play to record them all at once.
 
When Sonar got to position 585:01:000, or the 18 minute mark, the audio went silent.
 
I tried bouncing the last clip with the one before it. When I did there was no audio where the last clip used to be, just that center line of silence.
 
So does Sonar quit producing audio after 18 minutes? Or what happened?
 
 
Steve

Yeah,out of sheer "unknowingness",I too would like to know the answer to this,especially if I end up recording my cover version of "Close To The Edge" by "Yes".


Seriously though,Iv'e never seen this "max project length" thing,discussed anywhere?....Bakers?
Bob

sonar craps out after a while. when i was setting up a live show about a year ago i was going to work with a 45 min long backing track in an audio lane.  i think it's a buffer flushing thing.  try bypassing all effects (bypass button on the control bar)  and increase your driver's buffers to the maximum.  also, in "preferences/audio/configuration file" set the dropoutmsec to 750 or so, threadschedulingmodel to 2 and minimizedriverstatechanges = 3.

bounce each audio clip down first.

running 32 bit might be a hamper to that as well.  what's your total file length??
lemme know if that helps.  as i understand it you're playing the audio back with sonar and the outputs are plugged into a tape machine that you're recording on right??

there are audio file joiner programs on the net you can use to parse stuff into a long .wav file and then just play that back using windows media player or something if sonar keeps crapping out on you.

i thought that was it on my machine for a while as well, simpleman, but had all startup programs/av/etc. disabled and same thing happened.  if you want to test it on your machine - just take one of the loop files, stretch it out 45min and then bounce it down to audio, go to the start of the project and hit play and see how long your machine makes it.  i'd like to know so i could compare preference settings with you.

hey, soens, why don't you just export the project as audio then play it back with wmp or itunes or something??

I believe there is a 2 GB limit for the file size for normal wave files. However, Sonar also supports Wav64, which has a much higher limit, and it automatically switches to Wav64 once the 2 GB limit for Wav has been reached. So theoretically the time limit from Sonar is more likely to be determined by your disk size than anything else.

If you are getting a stop at an earlier point in time a setting or device driver on your computer is causing the issues as others have mentioned.

Peace,

Tunes

My current album project runs for well over 100 minutes with about 17 different songs on it and it plays back without a problem

So I guess I can surmise from all 15 responses that the answer to my question is NO!
 
I suspected a bug when it happened and I'm still bugged by it, so BUG it is!
A very strange bug, but still a bug, no less.
 
A bug by any other name might be a feature but I certainly didn't request it.
 
 
We need a bug smiley for posts like this. Would that require a bug request?
 
 
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@jersey - do you have all 100min in one project??

swamptooth


@jersey - do you have all 100min in one project??

Sorry - did you mean me? If so, then yes in as much as I import my final(?) mixdowns into an album project, each song on its own track and spaced out on the timeline where I can set appropriate gaps/seques/fades etc. 

The only thing that limits you is your PC and what it can handle. There are No Limits to these things. It just depends on what your pc can handle

CJ