SOLVED--Sonar or Windows Problem from Inactivity?

I'm wondering if it's my personal issue or do others experience the same thing?


If I load a project and work on it for a while, everything behaves normally. If I get up and leave it idol for a while, the usual things happen like screen saver, etc. The visual side of things comes right back with mouse or keyboard activity. The issue is if I choose to either play or record, there may be a full minute's worth of wait-time before it starts. It appears to be either a power-saving type of thing for disk inactivity or maybe a buffering thing on the Sonar side.

I've looked at all of the Windows power settings, and I don't see anything that would contribute. Does anybody else experience this? Does anybody have a suggestion for other areas to investigate?

Thanks in advance.


I'm running X2a on Win 7-64.
1-Disk (C:) is dedicated to OS and Sonar executable.
2-Disks (RAID 0) are dedicated to WaveData.
It is a DAW-only machine with nothing else installed.
Power settings are set to "High Performance."
Hard Disk is set to turn off after 60 minutes.

Not sure, but a common idea is to disable screen saver for DAW usage, at the very least.

In the Power settings, I always change to 'Never' for putting computer & screen to sleep.

There are some other tips for optimizing computers for DAW use. 

There is one for sure on the Presonus site - [my 2ndary DAW]. 

It is done by a very knowledgeable guy - user-name - Monolithent.

Worth a read for sure.

Other wise, Google it.

Thanks both of you guys. I don't have an option to disable the Hard Drive shutoff; however, I set it to 999 minutes. Do you have the option to disable completely?

Thanks again.

... I don't have an option to disable the Hard Drive shutoff...


I don't have or even know about that option. But I wouldn't shut your Hard Drive off - ever! 


It may not recover and/or wake up.


In fact 'Windows Wake Up from sleep function' has always been a bit buggy, so I never use it.


We may or may not be talking about the same thing, but I'm now thinking that could be the problem.


Can you say a bit more about disabling the Hard Drive? And what you do with it.  

Thanks everyone who chimed in.

Wetting the value to zero and changing the USB settings fixed the issue!

Paul P


Personally, I don't mind waiting a minute or so for Windows/everything else to come back online after powering down due to inactivity. Why wear your equipment out doing nothing ?

My only problem waking up was with my Creative card often not coming back to life, but a recent driver update seems to have fixed that, so now my sytem can go to sleep and wake up no problem (my Mackie interface and the onboard sound never had problems).

If I were recording, I'd definitely keep the system going full blast.

 
 
A couple of things here...1st if your computer is set to turn things off at certain times that means the computer has an app running in the background while you are recording...which means less performance, higher latency.  Your computer runs smoother with without the power apps.
 
2nd...Powering up and down computer devices can wear out electronics faster than just keeping things powered up.