Problem restarting Sonar

What do you have hooked up to your PC that is used in Sonar? An example would be any USB or Fire-wire hardware, like a MIDI controller. sometimes these things can cause Sonar to hang as the controller doesn't let go of it.

Thanks CJ and Beepster.  No joy here.  I don't have any external hardware hooked up specifically for Sonar.  The only things I have are a wireless mouse/keyboard combo and a couple of flash drives that have no files or anything related to Sonar on them.

What are you using as an audio interface (sound card)? 

If you google sonarpdr.exe you will see that it's a well known issue. It seems to be related to soundcard drivers although i havent come across a definitive explanation.... maybe there isnt one! 
I had a delta1010 and sometimes it would happen, and I now have an octa capture and it has happened but very rarely. Since win 8 was installed it hasn't happened at all. Could be coincidence! 

Bibs

Sometimes you can't even end task no matter how many times you click it or however long you wait and as a result a reboot is the only option. Real pain in the proverbials!

Bibs

Galandar


I'm having a problem running Sonar X2 Producer. It starts up fine each day. However, after shutting it down the first time, it will not restart. When I open the Task Manager, I see that "SONARPDR.exe" is one of the processes that is still running. If I shut it down in Task Manager, X2 will restart. My question is, is this a bug in the program, or is there a setting/plugin/driver/what-have-you that will cause this?

I've had the same thing happen to me... can't even close it with the task manager. The first few times it happened I rebooted and that took care of that. Other times I just move on to something else and after a few minutes Sonar shuts down, verified with the task manager.

Thanks all.  It may not be fixed, but at least I'm pretty sure of where the problem lies.

Just a couple of things.  If I shut down from task manager, it seems to work, at least to the point of being able to re-start X2.

Moving sideways, is it possible to have no MIDI output devices defined under Preferences>MIDI>Devices?  The reason I'm asking is that, as I looked through different settings, I found that the only MIDI output device that I have listed is the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, which is checked.  I never use it, but it is checked anyway, so I tried to uncheck it.  The little eternal circle spins and spins until you give up and click in X2 somewhere and then it tells you that X2 is not responding.  Could this be what is not allowing X2 to shut down, or is having at least one MIDI instrument required?

Okay.  Think I've got it beat.  I could not uncheck the Microsoft GS Wavetable.  X2 would hang and Windows would shut it down.  However, on a hunch I tried rebooting my machine and before doing anything else, I started X2 but did not open any projects.  I went straight to preferences and unchecked the GS Wavetable.  Voila!  It accepted the change, and now I can shut down and restart to my little heart's desire. 

That also solved a problem I was having with recent files not showing up in the File drop-down menu.  I suppose because it wasn't shutting down properly, it wasn't remembering the most recent files.  It didn't help with my BReverb problem (different post) but hey, I'll take what I can get!  Thanks all!