Quantize causes sonar to crash

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2015/10/24 12:34:27 (permalink)

Quantize causes sonar to crash

 
Is anyone else having problems with quantize or is it just me?
I have had this problem on multiple machines: desktops & laptops; hi-spec/lo-spec ; various o/s implementations: vista, win 7, now win 10. And with various versions of Sonar (8.0 - Platinum and all releases between)
The detail of the problem is as follows:
1 - record 2 bars of midi bass.
2 - split the clip to remove initial unwanted silence
3 - apply trimming
4 - copy 2 bar clip above 3 times (total of 4 clips just to make myself clear)
5 - select all 4 clips
6 - goto the process menu, select quantize
7 - click on audition.... and this is where the fun starts:
 
a - no sound plays in the audition/preview
b - Sonar hangs and then crashes
c - sonar.exe process is left running but cannot be ended by win task manager
d - sonar.exe eventually closes after about 5 minutes
e - restarting sonar results in:
      - Sonar says that there is no audio device connected (there is)
      - Sonar also says that activation failed and demo will expire in 4 days (I have been using platinum since it came out!)
 
I find it hard to believe that I'm the only one to experience this but it seems to have been hanging around so long I'm beginning to wonder if I have some kind of quantize hoodoo going on. 
There is a simple work around and that is not to audition the quantize effect. The problem is I use this type of quantize so infrequently that I always forget. :-(
You can make software virtually fool proof but it's nigh on impossible to make it idiot proof!
 
so just to repeat - has anyone else experienced this behaviour?
 
thanks
Colin
 
 
 

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    brundlefly
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    Re: Quantize causes sonar to crash 2015/10/24 13:54:06 (permalink)
    chudson
    6 - goto the process menu, select quantize
    7 - click on audition.... and this is where the fun starts:
     
    a - no sound plays in the audition/preview
     



    I'm guessing this is because you're using an input-monitored hardware synth. Audition won't be audible in this case because the MIDI is essentially soloed during audition which mutes the synth's audio track. Soft synth and direct-monitored hardware synths will audition as expected.
     
    Solo-overriding the audio track might take care of it; I don't recall if that was effective. I never use audition.
     
    I vaguely recall someone else reporting a crash on quantizing with audition, but that's extremely uncommon, I think. And I don't recall that a cause was ever identified.
     
    I might be able to hunt it up later.
    post edited by brundlefly - 2015/10/24 14:05:25

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