List of problems

At the moment, I have (at _least_) :(1) Some Preferences settings are being reset when I reopen _a project_ (these should be programme wide???): Snap and Nudge settings for a start....._but not many of the other settings_ (2)If I change Screensets, or copy duplicate a screenset, all my docked windows float and some disappear, to the point where I have to close an reopen again, just to find them. This also happens if I reopen the project (3)All of my Track Pain settings such as column and header text box width, are lost on reopen. (4) The velocity tails are shown in PRV every time I reopen: sometimes I have to tick them on, so I can turn them off. I tried using Templates as somebody suggested, but I could not get it to make any difference. I did not expect it to, as I would have thought that saving as project should take care of these settings and I can't see how a template will help if it does not. This is obviously all wrong...so........Is there any way I can find what version I have? (I think it's the original) Did later versions address these problems? Am I doing something wrong?...This is a pain. I have noted an increasing list of problems that really get in the way of smooth work, and every time I reopen a session I have to go through the list and check them off.

Paul P


We're all waiting for X2b.

But how do we know X2b will fix all these bugs? (if they are indeed bugs)

Jlien X

 But how do we know X2b will fix all these bugs? 

+1 - Good question, and a very serious concern of mine. X2 is "livable" for most, and although I would like to a see a few hot-fixes before X1b, I don't have a lot of faith that many of the concerns on this board will be reworked or fixed. Even after X1d was released, I still had many issues (oddities), but Cakewalk decided it was better to continue on to X2. I can't blame them there, but I'd like the same thing NOT to happen with X2.

Just because some bugs are submitted through the Bug portal, but other aren't doesn't mean people don't run into them frequently. Every iteration of X1 fixed really obscure bugs, none of which I ever ran into, but didn't address bugs that probably were more likely to be hit (even if randomly). Random bugs are difficult to troubleshoot and fix, but that's why they are called "bugs". Maybe they should be called "termites" because they do eat away, and you may never detect them over time.  

OK. I opened a new file. I made the changes to the Snap/Nudge settings. I also added a soft synth and asked to see a PRV, which I took to a second monitor. I then docked the soft synth's window wqith the PRV. Then I saved as a template, choosing Normal2, in the default folder that SONAR offered....Sonar X1 Producer/Project Templates/Normal2.cwt. I closed it and again asked for a new file using the Normal2 template. Some settings had been reset. The windowing had been lost: no PRV, no softsynth window.

Just a suggestion.  Try running sonar as Admin. ( right click on the Sonar icon ).  I've ran into applications (other than sonar) that are not able to do simple things like write to a file, because that file was in one of the Program Files folders. 

Paul P's comment sparked that suggestion out of me.


In fact, I have Sonar set to run as ADMIN every time I run the Sonar executable

OldNick


HAH! Tried that and ever after SONAR just kept crashing :(...However it booted me into installing X1C, and that has addressed a lot of what I was asking about. Now all I have to do is get CW to allow me to dl the later updates.

If sonar is crashing because you run it as administrator you have a problem. You need to trouble shoot and find out what is causing this.

If I read the prior posts correctly, simply running X1 unpatched as administrator would not solve much. Read the list of bug fixes for X1a/b/c/d.

"If sonar is crashing because you run it as administrator you have a problem. You need to trouble shoot and find out what is causing this. " Funny thing was, it kept crashing after that even when I opened normally. However patches have fixed it all AFAICS.

Not half as glad I am! It's been a hair-tearing few days and I have hardly done a lick of music. Anyway, thanks for chiming in guys. Sometimes just reading ideas and discussing it stops you going completely nuts, because it's _something_ to try.

Well I can tell you. I have worked, with a longish break, with Cakewalk since Cakewalk (not SONAR!) 3. What I have in front of me now is just....words fail me..... I had 4 keyboard synths, a drum machine (Roland TR909), another drum machine (A Yamaha) and a Yam XG60 (?) synth/sound/midi card, 2 4-way MIDI ports and the wiring to go with it......and the lot together were not a touch, for sound quality, power and sheer moxie,on what I now have in one box and a MIDI input keyboard. And if I want to upgrade synths, I will take the pain of $100 and a few moments of angst over the $2k plus for new keyboards/synths of the same power. So though I get frustrated and mad, I keep going because this is THE toyshop and I am the kid in it! :D...as are well I assume....I do have to admit that all those synths _looked_ and felt amazing, all racked up, and I miss that. The Roland Jupiter 6 had to be the prettiest synth ever, in a dimmed room....however...

Yeah I know :(.... but ya gotta remember that I have only been doing this one for a few days and what with missing serial numbers, and having to ask for download links to be sent to me, hardware fun, driver fun .....it has not been smooth. I did not even realise there were any until recently.