sonar 8: 100% crashes with v-vocal

8.0? or 8.3.1?

are you always testing the same vocal clip?

Three friends with the same exact version of SONAR? Same computer? Same project? Is there some reason none of you have sent a crash dump to Cakewalk yet?

ORIGINAL: submarin

I can confirm it, very buggy, I had a thread over that last week..
think we´ll have to wait till the next version, it´s a pity, cause VV is actually a great thing..

Huh, I'm not sure you have to wait till S9. Most of us here are using V-Vocal with no issues. Have you tried adjusting your latency. How about the playback and record buffers? With your set up you should have no problems. Maybe it has something to do with your video card. Don't know just taking some shots in the dark here.

Mike

Funny, I hear of how buggy V-Vocal is but it has never crashed for me. Just luck I guess.

-I`ve not tried the 8.3.1 update. I will try it.Thanks!

- It`s not the same vocal clip, I`ve tried it a lot of times in different projects.

- "Three friends with the same exact version of SONAR? Same computer? Same project?" No, they are 3 different versions of sonar, different computers and different projects. And there is no support from sonar here where I live. You don`t you believe me, right?

ORIGINAL: krizrox

I've seen similar things with VV. My solution was to just stop using it. I use Auto-tune now and it never crashes Sonar. Cleaner. Better sounding. Less artifacts and no phasing. I presume Melodyne will produce similar or better results as AT. Pick one and never look back!

Most who give Melodyne a shot have exactly that reaction.

Best regards,

DB

I agree it's a good idea to forward the crash dump files to Cake so they can analyze the problem(s) but don't expect a response from them on the subject. I went through this with Cake last year right after the V8 release. They don't respond to crash dump files. As painful as it is to call them from outside the USA, I suspect that's the only way to get any immediate response to problems like this. You can't expect us to respond helpfully to threads with little or no background information.

If a single instance of VV is crashing your system, then there is certainly something wrong with your installation. I can at least run a few instances of VV before I start to notice any crashing. I might suggest, for no other reason than to save your sanity, you try a clean installation all the way back to your operating system. The troubleshooting method should go something like this:

1) install OS and the MOBO drivers (make sure they are the latest and greatest)
2) install Sonar
3) try opening the project that is giving you trouble and then see if VV still crashes your system.

If it doesn't crash upon first instance, then that at least tells you that there was something probably loaded and running in the background that was interfering with Sonar or some part of the installation of the OS and Sonar had gotten corrupted over time.

If it crashes with just that minimal set of software and drivers installed, then there might be a hardware issue involved. Good luck!

ORIGINAL: bitflipper

Where do you live? On Mars?

I bet the housing market is better on Mars. Like what you paid for a house is still worth what you paid for it.

Cakewalk Employees do post here from time to time however this is a user forum and not an official support forum. There is a sticky the to top of the forum which has information on how to contact Cakewalk directly for support.

I have had good luck with vvocal myself but I usually only have one clip active at a time. I have had some 3-4 min vvocal clips though without having any trouble but most the time I use shorter clips because of the advice of those that have had trouble.

Good Luck sorting out you vvocal issue.

i had one crash with v-vocal and it was because i tried to do a whole track at once to much cpu used up to process too much at once and it crashed ..now if i use it ..i do very short clips and it works great ...i too have melodyne and autotune but still find i need v-vocal for certain clips.

my butt itches

I  use to use V Vocal , But it has crash one to many times, from ver 7 to Ver 8.31..
 its definatly the most stable with 8.31 .. but the jitters and sometimes crashing make me hate it.. so I use Auto tune ,, NEVER had a single crash, NO joking.. It works awesome.. VV is great too, but still buggy..if you dont mind working and then out of the blue crash bang restart..