jonespnice1
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Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
I have a project of 32 tracks that I imported from pro tools, the length of the project is about 1 hour long. I doing a "process/ audio/ remove silence" and it is taking a long time. I looked in the task manager and only 23% of my computers processing power is being used, why doesn't sonar utilize more power to make this process quicker?
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pjl
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 21:34:00
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Do you have multiprocessor support switched on? Or perhaps it's doing the wav files one at a time and is hence a single process (therefore only using one processor).
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 21:54:34
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:15:25
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Are you using a separate hd for the audio?
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jonespnice1
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:20:25
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Do you have multiprocessor support switched on? Yes. Are you using a separate hd for the audio? No. Or perhaps it's doing the wav files one at a time and is hence a single process (therefore only using one processor). The latter sound correct Maybe that's what's happening, I wish it would use all the processor power at its disposal.
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pjl
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:24:37
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Do the SONAR cpu meters say it's only using one processor or are they all active? Maybe it is using all 4 processors but the disk access is the bottleneck. The time it takes to read from disk and write back is like an eternity to the CPU so perhaps the data stream is only supplying enough work to occupy 23% of the CPUs' time.
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jonespnice1
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:33:09
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ORIGINAL: pjl
Do the SONAR cpu meters say it's only using one processor or are they all active? Maybe it is using all 4 processors but the disk access is the bottleneck. The time it takes to read from disk and write back is like an eternity to the CPU so perhaps the data stream is only supplying enough work to occupy 23% of the CPUs' time.
I did not check the cpu meter in the task manager (sonar doesn't give me access while it's processing), maybe you're right about the disk access.
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:35:24
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You definitely want to have a drive for your OS and programs and another drive for sonar project files/audio
This will make a difference in your flow overall.
With a quad core and only 1 hard drive, you are kinking a lot of flow that would make things go smoother.
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pjl
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:35:28
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There's a cpu meter in SONAR that tells you usage level for each of up to 4 processors. See what that tells you.
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:35:49
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Sonar doesn't give you access to the task manager?  Really, I don't understand. Then start the task manager before opening up Sonar  Ed
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jonespnice1
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:46:44
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ORIGINAL: InstrEd
Sonar doesn't give you access to the task manager?
Really, I don't understand.
Then start the task manager before opening up Sonar
Ed
No I'm not stating that sonar doesn't give me access to the task manager, I was saying sonar doesn't give me access to its cpu meters during processing. As far as the windows task manager I do see that it is using all 4 processors.
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:53:23
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FYI: CTRL+ALT+DEL will bring up the Task Manager regardless of what program you're in. pjl is right. This is really an issue of disk read/write speed. Regardless of the processing power, your disks can only read/write so fast. You will do yourself a favor and increase that throughput by placing all audio files on a separate HD. That's DAW audio 101.
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pjl
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RE: Why isn't sonar using all 4 of my processors to process the wave files?
2008/04/02 22:57:17
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ORIGINAL: jonespnice1
No I'm not stating that sonar doesn't give me access to the task manager, I was saying sonar doesn't give me access to its cpu meters during processing. As far as the windows task manager I do see that it is using all 4 processors.
I didn't realise that, I guess I've just never noticed. However, if all 4 cores are being used then it sounds like it's a disk throughput limitation. Perhaps a separate, fast audio drive would improve things but I wouldn't like to guess by how much.
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