I hope there's a patch soon

As it stands, the crashing in Sonar X2 is to the point I'm trying out Presonus Studio One.

I have to say it is not nearly as nice a piece of software, workflow wise. I see what they were going for with simplifying the workflow but in their effort to do that I think they've made things more difficult, particularly with regards to various MIDI things. I really prefer Sonar's workflow.

However what I do have to give them credit for is a stable engine. It seems to just run, no problems. I haven't gotten it to blow up yet at all. Sonar likes to blow up for all sorts of reasons. The Piano Roll is a big one, and I can't figure out why. It isn't universal, but it happens a lot, and the error is a data execution prevention error which you shouldn't see in this day and age. It also likes to blow up when I insert Play occasionally for some reason, and that is my most used VI.

There really needs to be a better focus on stability, process isolation, and so on, not just on features. A DAW isn't very useful if it blows up all the time and I'm not asking it to do difficult things. Something like "load a VST instrument" shouldn't cause it to blow up. Even in the event there is a problem, it should be able to recover.

Particularly since Studio One seems to be able to run stable.

Bristol_Jonesey


You appear to be one of a very small number of people suffering from X2 crashing. 

you've had no crashes?

Ya I've posted here and I've sent them my crash dumps, when it has generated them. I don't expect perfection and I know that they need information. I am just getting really disheartened by the magnitude of the problems. I feel like I'm walking on icicles using it and any mistep causes a crash. On the other hand Studio One seems to have no issues (it was suggested to me as something to try). I really don't care for the interface and workflow overall, but I seem to have to give Presonus that they made a solid program.

I just want to play with audio, I don't want to deal with crashes every 5 minutes :(.

zero crashes = good news :)

I've encountered one major crash so far. After running/editing a project for a few hours, loading GTune, 32bit vsti ( http://www.gvst.co.uk/gtune.htm )  immediately frooze X2. I do save the project from time to time, so I don't lose any work.

I can't seems to repeat this after rebooting.

I crash once or twice a day since I upgraded to X2.

By the end, X1 was very stable for me - other than M-Audio driver issues I encountered periodically. I have no doubt X2 will be more stable in time; thankfully I haven't been working on any time sensitive projects since the upgrade.

All that said, X2 is way less buggy than X1 was upon initial release. Although I purchased it and installed it one Day One, I didn't start using X1 regularly until X1b.

You seem to be having my X1 experience. X2 on the other hand couldn't be working better though there are a few minor glitches that have already been reported.

I encourage you to be patient.

With X1 it took the release of X1C before I had a useable product. Nevertheless it seemed obvious that my experience was in the minority as well as a first for me; having previously not had such major problems with any release in over 15 years..

X2 has been encouraging as I seem to be back to my previous SONAR stability. Might  add that its the same machine on which I've run 8.5.3 as well as X1 and now X2.