"Project Loading in Process" progress bar/indicator...

I have to change my reply to this.
 
today while loading a song, I happened to look at the bottom of my screen.......
and running across the  bottom.......a "Progress Bar" loading the song.
 
I have no idea why you're not showing one also. I thought that I'd make you aware of this.
 
Happy Holidays,
Michael

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"Sounds like a good idea to me"

I can't see any harm in having it!

Hrm, I never noticed a progress bar before. I'll check.

Oh, I think I see what you mean.  Yes, there is a blue bar that streaks across the bottom of the screen when the project is finally loaded that goes from nothing to 100% in the blink of an eye.  That's not what I'm talking about.  I'm talking about a progress indicator that runs from the moment you call up a project.  On some of my larger projects some plugs (like certain instruments that run under the Kontakt engine) will pop up and show their loading status.  But by an large it's just the hour glass that hangs in mid screen until the "streaking" blue bar swipes across the bottom.  What I'd like is a true load progress indicator. 
 
PS:  I've also discovered a strange anomaly since all my hard drive troubles and replacements.  I can open my old projects that were "recovered" off the drive that went bad and then copied over to my new drive only if I go directly to their folder and open them from there.  If I try to load them from Sonar's "recent projects" list in the File/Open drop down menu...they won't open at all...Sonar hangs.  This even after I've opened them and resaved them.  Weirdsville.

I think you are too enamoured of "LOL" Michael, ol pal.  Plus you apparently didn't read my last post.  Plus you (and this was temporarily difficult for me as well) haven't learned to master the "quote" system in this infernal new forum software. 

Oh yeah that.  But that bar is useless!  It doesn't correspond to real-time, and like yorolpal said, it just goes from 0-100 after everything had already loaded!

I noticed a longer opening time for projects now.  I don't know if that's because I'm using synths with larger patches now or what.

I think it's weird that EZ Drummer and some other synths (Broomstick Bass comes to mind) won't load the patch or kit if the synth is closed, you have to open the UI from the Synth Rack at least one time to "initialize" it.

Men! That would be Great!!!! I totally support a Progress bar during song loading ! some times sonar looks like doing nothing and i'm tempted to press the CTrl-Alt_delete and stop the program because seems unresponsive But its not!!!! that progress bar and  background plugging information will be a Huge Visual Feedback Sonar its doing Good...and which pluggings are unresponsive!

if your ever having a problem opening a project (plug in related) use safe mode.
Hold down Shift and start Sonar.
 
Agree with BJ, this thread is 7 years old.
(my opinion:) nothing solid ever comes from digging up old threads.
the info is typically dated and useless.

Dated - yes, beyond question
Useless - yes, unless you're still running 8.5 or thereabouts.
 
But the bottom line is, as I stated earlier, Sonar DOES have a progress bar in the Control Bar and has been present since the X series was launched

im using the latest version of Sonar and I DO see the progress bar in when loading a project.
granted its fast (what can I say I have an I7 )
its in the same place the export project bar is.
typically heavy projects here open in 10 seconds or less. 
 
If you looking for a project progress indictor chances are a progress bar is the least of your trouble. it could be a failing hard drive, bad RAM, even a plug in causing the slow start up.
hope this helps.

dcumpian
When my projects get big, I basically open the project and do something else until the hard drive light(s) stop blinking, lol.

There's something to be said for a pragmatic approach
 
I have noticed that if you open SONAR immediately after the Windows desktop shows, it takes a long time for a project to load. I thought it was a SONAR thing but Studio One exhibits the same behavior. I suspect it's because Windows is still doing things in the background that take priority over what any one application is doing.