Unable to launch Sonar X1 after exiting program?

will it just not open you mean??..if thats the case..shut down your computer and restart..youll get in first try.not sure what the hell this is but its tick'in me off.

I've been having this problem as well.  I thought it might be related to ben's Sonar Helper, but I don't know for certain.  I've been talking with Ben about it and we're going to test some things.  if you're seeing it and you're not using Sonar Helper then that helps to elimnate Sonar Helper as a problem.

are you running X1 in 64bit mode or 32bit mode?  I think I've only seen it happen in 64bit mode, but I rarely use 32bit mode, so I'm not sure if it's just "luck of the draw" or what.

mine seems random and sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

Currently the only MIDI device I have connected is on my MOTU.  I wouldn't think that it would be as much of a problem than a USB MIDI device, but ?

This is actually an old bug, going back to at least Sonar 8, especially if Sonar crashes or closes unexpectedly. If you look in the taskbar lower left where it shows what programs are open you may see the icon that shows when Sonar is up and running. Killing it in Task Manager doesn't always work.

Nice to see Cakewalk hasn't totally lost touch with the past with this old bug. I guess some things are too precious to let go.

i dont haVe bens mod and its happening to me(confirmed)

To kill it in the task manager completely right click Sonar.exe and select "End Process Tree"

Having said that a reboot is still quicker for me.

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FastBikerBoy


To kill it in the task manager completely right click Sonar.exe and select "End Process Tree"

Having said that a reboot is still quicker for me.

Are you talking about the new bug or the old one?
Because if it's the old one 'end process tree' doesn't always work.

Now I'm confused.

New one I think. I've not had it happen before but even "End Process Tree" can take a while - several minutes hence my reboot comment. TBH it's not something I see a great deal 'cos I only ever notice it if I shut down Sonar and then re-start it without a reboot which is an unusual thing for me to do on my DAW, which is the x64 machine. Usually I'd end Sonar and then shut down completely.

Doesn't seem to happen on my laptop (x32) though.

I don't use Sonar Plus Ben, not that I don't think it's a great program for those icon lovers out there though, 'cos it's a real gem. I'm just more of a keyboard man myself.

It's a long shot but I was having the same problem with Adobe's Premiere Elements.  The product would appear to be closed but couldn't be relaunched until I killed the process still hanging out in memory.

I found that after installing SP1 for Win 7 64 bit Premiere started shutting down properly.  So, if you haven't installed SP1 you might want to try that.

dart451:  after you installed the D44?

I've discovered that this only happens when my keyboard is on.  so it is the same problem as before as mentioned by bit above.  in previous versions of sonar it used to leave the MIDI icon in the systray, well, it no longer does that, but sonar is still running in the processes and has to be killed just like before.  and this is even tho I'm using my MOTU with a MIDI cable instead of a MIDI/USB cable like I used to have before.

I'm experiencing this a lot, but only when I use Liquid Mix in my projects, which I often do

yes, SP1.

and it's repeatable.  if I have my keyboard ON then sonar won't close.  if my keyboard is off - even if the MIDI port is still active on my MOTU, then sonar closes completely.

FYI - my motu is also on firewire.