[SOLVED]!!! BIG bug - Instant crashing of Sonar after switching tracks and buses

After inserting console emulation on tracks and bus, Sonar crashes {or bus is not activated} during playback if you selecting between track - buss - another track and so on. Please try this!!!!

- Tried a simple project with just audio tracks and no plugins/prochannel. 
- Inserted console emulation on all tracks/master bus and gave it a go.  I had trouble getting the master bus selected while playback was running like you describe, but I couldn't crash it.

- Inserted Rapture, selected a patch and recorded some notes. 
- Engaged console emulation on that track. 

During playback, SONAR crashed after a few mouse clicks. The complex project also had Rapture in it. 
Do you have Rapture running?

First times crashed with a minimal project with just 2 tracks and not much more, second time with a fairly large project with Ez-drummer and some other soft synths no prolbems. Very strange. I am using diskdriver right now to defrag all of my disks, have done a chdsk during boot defrag a cuole of times, could be the reason. Still in X1 no crashes at all whatever I do.

Hmmm. 

I just fired up a relatively complex project, with Rapture running a complex patch, a few audio tracks with crossfades and some automation, console emu on all tracks and the master bus, T-Racks with a few plugins on the master bus, Breverb and a few other FX running live, Pro-channel EQ and compression on several tracks... and switched around like a madman from tracks to busses, opening FX and synth windows left right and centre... and was unable to make it crash or delay the display in any way. 

And that's on XP on a 5-year-old machine (desktop specs, below). 

It's not a *really* big project, but it's typical of what I do and it's certainly not crashing now; having said that, this project *was* crashing a lot the other night while I was working on it; I started the project in X1 and ported it over, and ended up changing a few things, replacing some processing and such. It seems to have stabilized now!

So not to say there's nothing to this bug, but it doesn't seem to be universal...

On my end at least, it does seem that the console emulation affects stability in addition to making track/bus selection behave weirdly.

I must admit I had this yesterday, I never said anything because I was really just experimenting on older X1 projects, I also had crashes when dragging custom made PC FX chains from the browsers into the PC.

The crashes were just a complete shut down of X2, no warning dialogue boxes, no blue or white screens, the program literally just closed instantly without warning.

Ive got an album to mix next week, so I will be starting fresh projects in X2 and it will give me a better idea of whats going on with long term stability while using X2!

Someone from cakewalk should really respond to this bug. It is almost impossible to work fluently with such a bug. Thanks

this is what sucks about being a software developer. the reward for months of a relentless, social-life-sucking product launch, is ... more, now super critical, intense and thankless work (weekends included)! hahaha.

you guys rock. thanks for what you do.

now, get these bugs fixed so that you can starting working on my pre-buffering-oriented scheduling model mode for the audio engine, and i'll switch to Sonar 100%, be your fiercest promoter. :-)

and, if you're gonna code on the weekend at least keep a good bottle of single malt nearby. :-)

(we should start a developer single malt fund, i think.)

Not sure if this is relevant or not (was in another post I did earlier in the year), but I never had Aero turned on in windows when I had the crashes, not had once since I turned it on again, however I haven't really been pushing X2 yet.

Just a thought :-)
 
EDIT: I also switched to "Run this program as administrator" as mentioned above.

Thank you Bill, I just filled up the submit form. I tried it also on WinXP and different computer. Behavior is the same

Something new with this one, Cake?

New QuickFix addresses this issue, now it works like charm. Thank you Cake