X2A is just not a stable system.

That sucks. However it has to be said that frequent saving is a must no matter what program you're working with. If I'm working in Photoshop I save every few minutes, even though the thing has never once crashed on me. I even do the same when I'm working in Excel, and I've never heard of that crashing on anyone. Even with a 100% stable program, who's to say the power isn't going to go out at any minute? 

DAW's crash. Pro Tools used to crash on me regularly and it's the "industry standard." Another way to look at it is, it gave you several hours without a crash. And who knows what caused it? Could have been a poorly coded plug or a driver bug that only shows itself once in a blue moon. 

For the record I've had very very few crashes since the quickfix, and the only crash I've had in X2a was when I tried to put Cakewalk's tape sim on the master bus....that pretty much crashes the program for me 50% of the time, so I always make sure to save before doing it. 

Been working for the last two days on a project in x2a...very screwy and crash prone as regards VST plugs...especially UAD and Softube for me.  Other anomalies as well.  So far, even with the latest version, not ready for prime time.  Dern!!!

yorolpal


Been working for the last two days on a project in x2a...very screwy and crash prone as regards VST plugs...especially UAD and Softube for me.  Other anomalies as well.  So far, even with the latest version, not ready for prime time.  Dern!!!

Melodyne act weird sometimes in SONAR X2a x64 too?
Bad audio after rendering back track in SONAR X2a also?
Also Open a saved project and continue editing in Melodyne on a specific Melodyne track give you bad audio, robotic sounding and sometimes. It even sometimes  "cut off the audio stream" completely?

 
 
http://www.celemony.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14325
Best Regards
Freddie

I had Sonar crash on me last night. I was using Dimension Pro and tried to load a patch and that was it. Project all gone. Fortunately for me I just started the project and I have not recorded anything yet.

Sonar has not done that since the initial version of X2 was released. I am probably going to get flamed for this but.....I switched to the 32 bit version. The reason why I did is because for me it has been more stable. I still read through the forum and see people complain about crashes and then I look to see what version they are running in their system specs.

To be honest I can't say that the 32 bit is more stable then the 64 bit version, but I can say it has given me less problems. Last nights crash was the first one in a long time. I am not saying this is a fix! everyone's computer is different.

If I had to do it over again I would buy a different Computer, for now 32 bit works fine and I am waiting for X2b or X2c before I start using 64 bit again.

Hi
I had X2 crashes too the last days.
Than I remembered an Nvidia graphic card Driver update to version 310.99 the other day . 
The graphic driver has been the reason for crashes here a while ago. 
And guess what:
Since I´m using the older driver( version 275.33, everything is running well.
Hope this helps anyone.
Pragi

The only "hard" crashes I've had involved IK's CSR and/or Ampeg SVX.
Now that CSR is included in TRackS and SVX is in Amplitude 3, all is well there.
Lots of flaky "Lanes" behavior though.
Suddenly I can't slip edit or fade clips.
Not quite ready for prime time to be sure.

Tom

This probably isnt that helpful, but i have been pro actively trying to narrow down why i get x2 crashes over the past couple of months..

I find that when using 64 bit plugins and synths only, sonar x2 is pretty stable. I dont run uad stuff which seems to be problematic. i think they now have 64 bit drivers released in december..

When using 32bit synths or plugins... and a good few of them, thats when i run into troubles. I am of course running 64bit sonar.
I have tested only using sonar 64 bit plugins and effects and it is rock solid.

The other thing i have noticed is that i have a lot of USB devices connected to the computers own usb ports which i found to be troublesome.
I had a minibrute/tetra/maschine/scralett 8i6 all in the motherboards usb ports, as well as mouse, qwerty keys, external hd. 

I was advised to get a seperate usb card and run as many hardware synths (minibrute,maschine,xv5050 etc) into this seperate usb card, which runs on a seperate usb bus, leaving mouse, qwerty keyboard and drive using the motherboards usb ports.
It does work better and more stable since then. Getting rid of default omni midi settings also helps and setting up devices to respond to exclusive midi channles for them may well have helped as well.

non x2 Plugins that are rock solid for me in x2 are...
Massive/Maschine or any NI stuff/diva/all free 64 bit plugs on kvrs site/izotope5advanced/

Getting rid of default omni midi settings also helps and setting up devices to respond to exclusive midi channles for them helped a lot as well.

...As does having an autosave on every 20-30 changes. Thats a good feature instead of setting it to every 20 minutes or so.

Agree it can be extremely frustrating. Just my experiences trying to get a stable system, by no means gospel. You have probably tried all of that. Anyway..

Hope it gets sorted.

@ Robert,
Pretty basic combo of VOX, Guitars and midi here as well.
8.5.3 very stable, but that was patched; 8.5 then 8.5.2 then 8.5.3.
X1c & d Expanded, very stable 3 tries in!
X2a, all x64, pretty good; EXCEPT these "niggles" with the lanes.
I'm sure the next patch will get it sorted.
And Hey, I'm happy for you, these little tech things are the "spark" killers for me.
Serious work, X1d Expanded; been doing some "covers" in X2a, we'll get there...

T