Drop Outs

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        I have a big problem with "Drop outs" on my new Sonar X1 Producer. So, when I play or record clips (it doesn't matter if this is one or couple of clips) after +- 20-30 second the audio engine stops, though the sound was played fluently without any crashes. The hard drive load meter is red when I push the play button again (before drop out it was about 3% loaded). I tried using ASIO (asio4all) and WDM/KS drivers on various latency settings, but the problem was ALWAYS the same. It's impossible to work. My computer configuration is: Core i3, 6GB DDR3 1333MHz, Gigabyte P55-UD3L motherboard, 1TB hard drive WD 7200rpm, Win7 64-bit and the sound interface is Edirol UA-25 USB with the most up-to-date drivers. I also tried to re-installing program and defragmented hard drive. Unfortunetelly, nothing has changed.

Any idea how to solve this problem? Help!

PS Sorry for my poor english

Is this in just one project, or all of them?

Have you used previous versions of Sonar before?

What settings are you using for the Sampling Rate? Playback & Record I/O buffers? ASIO buffer size?

Have you tried the ASIO drivers for the Edirol or just ASIO4ALL? ASIO4ALL uses the WDM drivers so if there's an issue with those ASIO4ALL may not help.

Run a DPC latency check as well. As BlixYZ has pointed out wireless network cards especially can create havoc on a DAW.

Start > Control Panel > Power Options: Set to performance mode.

Also I would set all power options to NEVER on sleep, power saving etc...

Some useful tweaks listed by respondents above.  Native Instruments did a really useful list of audio tweaks for XP (as a constant dropout victim I've looked at a lot of these lists and this is the best) most of which if iiirc will apply to any OS. 

[link=http://www.native-instruments.com/knowledge/questions/343/Windows+XP+Tuning+Tips+for+audio+processing]http://www.native-instrum...s+for+audio+processing[/link]
 

Crush

I have a big problem with "Drop outs" on my new Sonar X1 Producer.

Hey I notice you are new here somewhat.

I have the same issue and it's basically a bug in the software as my other DAW's do not do this and I am using a new computer (i7).

I'm not sure if you are aware but X1 has a LOT of bugs like this. My channels or part of it would drop out all the time for no reason at all.

A bug is reproducible. Not everyone is having dropouts. Therefore it is something on your machines that is causing this (software or hardware; settings or drivers). The only way to find out is to experiment and experiment until you find the problem. Coming to a forum and saying bugs bugs bugs is going to help no one. I would go out on a limb and say that the OP's and even your dropouts are NOT due to any "bugs" as you say.

Crush

A bug is reproducible. Not everyone is having dropouts. Therefore it is something on your machines that is causing this

You mean my clean install of Windows 7 on a new i7 machine?

Let me make this clear and say this again.

MY OTHER DAW'S DO NOT DO THIS.

again.

MY... OTHER... DAW'S... DO.. NOT... DROP.. OUT.. SOUND.

OTHER.. X1 USERS... EXPERIENCE.. THE SAME..

And all of a sudden it's a USER ERROR!!!

LOL!!!!!

You literally make me face palm on every post you make. You must be slaying imaginary dragons in your studio because the rest of us are not impressed.

It's not bugs, it's not user error, it's system configuration. You can't say this is an epidemic because many of us are running SONAR X1 rock solid re: playback. I'm sorry that you can't. You'd be more liked around here if you gave some legitimate words of advice once and a while instead of being an obvious troll.

Not all clean installs are 'clean' btw. Not all drivers are made the same either....

crush why o why?..dude i dont understand why you think every problem on here is due to bugs and unstablity of x1..there are other reasons you know?..before you send this kid home thinking its an unfixable bug,why not let us try and help,cause you said nothing helpful,you chime in any chance you get,you make it your life long destiny to smear the sonar name now..if your running windows seven try this..set your driver to mme if all else fails.it got huge latency issues but its stable and will let you pound endless effects with out drop out unless you ram is cheap low.lower the buffer when recording enought to balance latency..theres your quick fix till you can track the problem..cakewal also has a page defining what driver to use with what soundcard..i used asio4free also.it will lead to conflicts after a while though

that all depends on what your problems are..not if you use an external soundcard..i use mme now with out an exturnal soundcard, its what cake recomended on their website,its usually flawless and no problems with my buffers set real low..i think its synch catch(i think) is set to about 50.but it queues up and starts great..i had it set high and when i hit start it would sit there for a second or so..ive got it fine tuned now.it took alot of dective work though.

hubertous, did you get your problem fixed with the Asio4Al drivers? That's awesome if that's true and if it is, you might want to change the title of your thread so others know what one possible solution is to drop outs.

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[size=4 font="times new roman"]Going to give the software a good run in the next two weeks (live of the floor band recording ) to see how it performs.
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