[SOLVED]...and my X1C issues are...

Hi forum.
 
I did buy (and download) the upgrade to X1 (from 8.5) several weeks ago. Due to some extreme lack of productivity, i havent really cared to install it, until now, this very day. So; i completed the download package with the X1C patch and installed the whole thing.
 
And...
 
Nope, it aint working properly.
 
* I started with opening a simple project with just some audio tracks, i clicked around a bit to get familiar with the new interface. All ok.
 
* I tried to change the colors, in "the simple way i want it"; green tracks for audio, yellow for midi.  "Audio/midi track name background/text" for both track view and console view. It didnt work; track name background (track view) didnt change at all.
 
* I load a more complex project from the "8.5 days" (nothing extreme though, some 20 audio trax, 4 VSTi-s and a bunch of VST effects), and it opens fine, but when i close it, the program crashes. In a onebutton dialogue Bill Gates tell me: "SONARPDR.EXE has stopped workin and i will ¤!"#%#¤& down the program" (translated from my swedish version of windows but you get the point).
 
I close down, restart etcetc and same problem again. I open the project in 8.5 (which i still have installed and running on my computer) and it works all fine.
 
So; i un- and re-install the whole X1 thing, and it still crashes when i open (EDIT: No, not open, but Close (with or without saving)) this "randomly picked" project from 8.5.
 
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Any ideas? Of course i can live with the color scheme bug(?) but i cant live with X1 crashing when i open a wellworking project.
 
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Some details: My PC is fairly new, with Windows 7 home pro 64 bit. I installed X1 32-bit version, as my installation of 8.5 also is 32 bit.
 
Cheers
and, as always; excuse my swenglish :P
 
/Bengt
Sweden

Hi John

M-Audio FW Audiophile. It has been working fine with 8.5 (and older versions of Sonar, but that was on earlier computers).

I havent really touched the audio settings during the X1 installation, it kinda imported it from the older 8.5 installation (?).
 
Edit: I run ASIO 44.1 kHz / 24 bit, buffer size 256 - 512 (depending on what i do)

I don't have much knowledge about M-Audio cards sorry. I do know that you might want to look at your Firewire chip set to be sure you have the TI one.

4 VSTi-s and a bunch of VST effects)

Any of them using Bitbridge? I know X1 shouldn't have any issues with plug-ins that 8.5 doesn't, but I'd start by selectively disabling them (Bitbridged plugs first) in a copy of the project (make the copy in Windows Explorer, since you can't save a copy), and see if you find a culprit there.

I do hope CW can give you a good answer Vallhagen. Good meaning solved.

Vallhagen.

Free, sometimes does not come cheap.

FWIW, many a friend here have recommended free (solid) software and I have tried a few. Fortunately, I've never had problems with free stuff but it's threads like this that helped me make the decision (when I upgraded to W7/64bit) to no longer install free VST/VTSis.

And...

As speakin about "free does not come cheap"; the problem now seems all solved.

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I simply contacted Willian at www.wusik.com about this issue, and just one hour (!) later he replied with a free (!) latest version of EVE, which is Wusik EVE V3 http://www.wusik.com/ww/products/wusikeve. That is what i call good service indeed :)   It should be said though, that we are lookin at a win-win-situation here; He asked me to try it out in X1 and send some feedback.

I installed this EVE V3, and the problem seem gone, solved. I feel pretty much happier now. EVE is one of my few fave VSTi-s, which i like to continue to work with:)

Cheers:)

Hmm, i tend to over-use some smileys in this post, huh?
:) :) :)

/Bengt