Slow loading Plugins in X2 Producer

I have been using Sonar since version 4.  It seems that in X2 every time I load a plugin it takes so long.  I get a message saying Processing Audio and I have to wait at least 1 minute or more.  I can't do anything else while this is happening. It seems to happen on all plugins.  I am using a Win 7 machine with 2 SSD drives and 12 gigs of Ram.  No issues with any other apps or performance.  Just a long wait time on plugin load.  Any ideas?
 
Thanks,
John

Try opening up your plug in manager, and go over all the plug ins. Exclude all the plug ins that do not belong there.
 
Are you 32 or 64 bit? Many plug ins especially from back at Sonar 4 are 32 bit only. I am not sure this is an issue. I also had Sonar 4 and 7 now X2. There are some issues that can happen with graphics cards as well. The graphics are set top priority in a pc, so that can cause pauses.
 
I was experiencing crashes, and pauses similar as you mentioned, but I finally got it corrected. In my Edit/Preferences, I have 24 bit, 44100, 256 sample, 64 engine on, ASIO, no dither, Playback and Recording, use multi processing engines, Play efefcts tail, and open all devices all checked. Advanced configuration file, Threadscheduling Module set at 2 for my core 2 duo. If you have quad set it at 4. I am at about 10-11 mills latency.
 
Turn off any stuff like screen saver, windows sounds, motherboard sound card like sigmal tel or whatever, or let Cakewalk disable that.
 
Good luck with it. Free

musec03, have you checked to see if maybe you had a windows update that failed? Maybe something to look at.

I get a message saying Processing Audio and I have to wait at least 1 minute or more.

When you insert an effect, it does not process it. Its non destructive, so there cannot be any processing when inserting any audio effect. You are probably processing the effect and not inserting the effect and this is the wrong way to do it, if you just want to insert an effect.
 
CJ

I have the "White Screen Thing"only as a[more than likely] precursor to a crash,and[again] only on my sig. laptop,but pretty rarely[these days].
 
Also,I have exactly 700 VST effects plugs[mostly Free/Donation 32 bit,in 64 bit X2,just using the built in bridge-no problems],but I also have[and mostly use] Waves SSL,API,PSP,The Glue,DSM,all 64 bit,and Iv'e never had lags loading plugins,or projects?
 
My biggest "timewaster" is waiting for exports/rendering offline or on of projects,only to have them fail,sometimes 4 or 5 times in a row...uggh,but I'm putting THAT down to the HW/HW age/HW enviroment[nicotine].
 
The next session most things are ok again,except a bug where when selecting "export",it will "invariably" open to the wrong page[This also happens with some other "opening" of explorer areas-always incorrect],but easily re-selected,very annoying though.
 
I cannot think why effects plugins would take time to load,unless it's what "CJ" is saying?
Bob