Dropouts and Hibernation/Sleep Mode

There are a few things mentioned in Sonar's Help documents about what causes dropouts but there are probably no end to them.
 
Especially with my laptop, whenever I let it hibernate or sleep and then wake it up, some things don't work right. I usually have a lot more issues with Sonar and other programs than I do when shutting it down completely. Kind of like it doesn't fully wake up from it's sleepy state. (And feeding it morning coffee doesn't seem to help either.)
 
I find a complete reboot solves a lot of little issues, especially with USB driven audio and MIDI. Windows seems to like mishandling USB whenever it gets the chance.
 
Just a thought.

Bristol_Jonesey
Makes perfect sense.
 
I never put my laptop to sleep or hibernate it.

This ^^^should eliminate those issues.

I recall reading somewhere that you should NEVER deploy hibernate/sleep mode on a DAW.
 
It could have been a CW employee, or a DAW make (i.e. Scott or Jim).

Sonar, and some other programs and devices, do not wake up well from sleep/hibernation, at times.
 
I always set everything to high performance power management options, and do not have issues - I am on my computer for an average of 14 hours a day, so it is not particularly any issue for me to have it set that way anyway.
 
When I DO leave the computer to do something, or sleep, I usually make sure I am out of Sonar, and if so, I then shut it down.

Bob Bone
 
 

Somebody gave me a tip rather than set both min/max CPU power on 100 in Windows, to set it to 99 to avoid spikes and fan noise....


I'm trying that now.

soens
I posted this in 2 different forums. This one got moved to here because they didn't know another one was already here. Maybe if I post one in every forum I can have them moved here.  

 
Why?
I would very much appreciate that you don't do this in future.
I have now merged both the threads....

My power profile is pretty much "always on", although I let the monitors turn off after an hour of inactivity. I only reboot once a week, preferring to put the computer to sleep instead. However, I make a point of never doing this with SONAR open. I've never wanted to test whether this is really necessary, but it just seems like a good idea.
 
The biggest problem is USB ports being shut down and not coming back to life on wake-up. Fortunately, you can exempt USB ports from ever being powered off. Prior to Windows 8, that was an obscure setting done via the device manager. Windows 8 conveniently includes it in the advanced power settings. Maybe that's in Win7, too, I don't know because I've never used Win7 for audio.