Memory overload

  When I do a lot of editing, mostly cut and paste, in the prv window, it bogs down my system, sometimes to the point of causing engine stoppage.  I usually have to close the song and reopen it, or close down Sonar and restart it, and at the worst I have to reboot my computer !   Does anyone know of a memory program that "clears" the ram with out all the shut down issues.  Or is there a setting in Sonar to fix this.  I don't want to use read or write caching because in Florida we have a lot of lightning and power outages hence I've had to reinstall windows (AAARRRGGGHHH) several times until I turned off the caching.  Can someone help me :)  Thank you.
 
 dan

Or get a modren OS.

Yea a new operating system might help and new audio cards too, those delta cards have been around for at least 10 years, you don't tell us which version of Sonar your using as each version supersedes the next so does your audio interfaces.  Meaning what do you expect if you are using 10 year old cards and a brand new DAW it's like putting a kid into a racing car and expecting it to drive the car like the Stig. 

It wont happen, they are not compatible because they have been optimized differently.  Also if I remember correctly, those Delta cards and don't get me wrong they were good in their day are PCI cards and not PCI express.  That is your problem.  The throughput of your motherboard and the way the audio is transferred is bottle necking this is why today there are no PCI audio interfaces unless M-Audio still make those cards and this includes the 1010. I haven't checked. 

Finally whilst in their day M-Audio were a top notch audio interface manufacture, I wouldn't touch their new stuff with a barge pole.  Their new interfaces  have horrible sounding preamps all mids.  Just my two cents.

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Whooh nelly-- saves gives you no way to return if you screw up!

So, if saving fixes the issue, then I guess the memory needed for the undos is the culprit. Have you looked at the memory usage?
And, Windows 7 64 bit is quite good.

Wilko

John


Or get a modren OS.

NOw now -- I'm on XP Pro sp3, 32bit and doing just fine, thank you :)   It's not the OS (usually).
 
It's the people who MAKE the OS ;)