updated to Windows 7 and have some minor issues

What was the fx you were using? if it comes with sonar 7 then make sure you select it when you install sonar 7 when it asks you what plugins you want sonar to install. If it doesn't come with sonar install that you bought or downloaded, you will need to install that plugin again. Then again if you have it installed then make sure you have the location of the vst folder in the vst scan folders list in sonar.

When upgrading your machine you did not go 64 bit, did you?

IIRC the cakewalk reverb and maybe also the delay/echo is 32bit plugin, no? I had the same problem because I installed the 64 bit version of sonar and so the 32bit plugins would not work.

"What if my favorite plug-in manufacturer does not provide 64-bit versions? This is where SONAR's BitBridge™ comes in. BitBridge enables the use of 32-bit VST effects and instruments in SONAR's 64-bit environment."

okay so i can live without those few effects but now i have another problem.  i can play back porjects and play music and hear sound from videos but i cannot get anything recorded on through the ff800.  since i am new to the windows 7 setup and a beginner in the tech world, was there something i was supposed to do other than update the FUT and Drivers for the FF800, to be able to record?  i have gone into the control panel and opened up the sound icon and i see spdif, adat, analogue and line in options.  i tried them all and neither worked.  where am i going wrong?  thanks in advance.

rocklikecox831


Got a quick question just upgrade my computer running windows 7 now!! can i still use sonar 7 producer to record or do i need to upgrade to sonarx1producer?

i am able to listen to and play back projects but i am still having issues wiht recording into sonar 7. i am sure there is an easy solution to this but i am not tech savy so here we are.  but in total i am 90% sure you can still use sonar 7 with windows 7.

when i play a note it takes a fraction of a second for it to come out of the speakers.  what and where do i adjust for this delay?

I don't think that Sonar 7 is really made to work with win 7- I think you need to upgrade to at least Sonar 8.5 if you want it to be compatible. Well worth it, I'd say!

BluesMeister


Beagle, I'm about to go through the trauma of setting up an i7 Win7 64bit system with my Sonar 8.5.3 PE. Am I to understand that Bitbridge is built in to the 64-bit version of Sonar? So all of my Cake plugins will work flawlessly, including V-Vocal?

I went thru that myself a couple of months ago and it is traumatic - from the standpoint of reloading all of my software!  but yes, bitbridge is built into the 64bit version of sonar.  you can change bitbridge's settings if you want in the OPTIONS>AUDIO on the main tab, IIRC.  but I leave it at the default setting and havn't had any problems.
 
all cakewalk plugins should work fine in 64bit sonar.  and a lot of the 3rd party synths and plugins should be fine as well - I don't have any problems with bitbridge, but others do.  mostly what I see on the forums is people having problems with NI Akoustic Pianos and NI B3 and some other synths and plugins that they have to use j-bridge instead. 
 
all of mine work fine with bitbridge, tho!

when i play a note it takes a fraction of a second for it to come out of the speakers. what and where do i adjust for this delay?

 
With input echo on all I usually do is increase both playback and recording buffer size up until the delay is gone. I have mine at the max which is 1000 IIRC.

I think he's talking about the READ/WRITE ENABLE BUFFERS not the soundcard buffers

but I still am not sure that would lower the latency directly.

Beagle, you're a star, thanks mate. I've been REALLY reluctant to go through this exercise precisely because of having to reload and setup up all of my software like you had to do. I have no NI software apart from the demo GR3 that I don't use. My wife has braced herself for a weekend of swearing from me, I've no idea where she gets that idea from, I'm already practicing my calming mantra.