Problem Removing Silence..

I wrote a quick song this afternoon...wanting to send it to some friends I have a gig with to give them an idea, possibly play it at this festival we're scheduled at.

For fun....I also worked up "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails...my own version.

That song...recorded all tracks well...no problem.

The song I wrote...that one acted weird.

For one...and this happens more than I care to admit, I will select a track, go to edit and select "Remove Silence"...

it runs thru its first line at the bottom, then says its dealing with the split clips. Takes anywhere up to 20-30 minutes to perform that function. Scares the heck out of me, and I don't bother using the remove silence for any other tracks, ahahah...Ssheesh!

So any ideas from those of experience why that might happen?

Then....I tried to bounce the tracks in preparation to export to audio, ultimately to create a wav file...

I'd say....four times in a row...the Hour glass would come up showing an action is taking place...but nothing.

When I clicked on Alt Control and Delete....the window would say that the project is not responding, and I'd have to end task. Good thing of course I have the habit of saving because otherwise all recording would have been lost.

The "Hurt" song...which I went on to do...bounced tracks no problem. I was able to export and create a RIFF wav file.

I would appreciate if anyone had a clue why that might have happened.

Oh ...yeah, I am using Sonar 3...on a newer multi media computer made just for this...PC...with Windows XP....

thanks...

bloozguy

thanks Torhan,

I'll try a search....

Never had problems with Cakewalk 9.0 or Sonar2 upgrades....but must be a glitch with the 3.0.....

too bad...

thanks

bloozguy