SONARPLT.exe has stopped working

Did you reinstall the Presonus driver?

Didn't help. Still get the same message.

I may have found it. My sound card changed the buffer settings to 2048. I switched it back to 64 and Sonar is working. I wonder how that setting changed before I re-installed the driver?
I wonder if I should still try the clean install thing?

Strange stuff. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't...I just keeps switching the settings around, back and forth until it works. I'm trying figure out a sequence which messes it up everytime.

Again...I open Mixbus 3.0 played it for a couple of seconds and saved project. Then close Mixbus.
I open Sonar and get the message. Open the soundcard and everything is set fine, but I have to switch it, and then switch it back for Sonar to work. Very Strange. Is Windows 10 worth it? Not to me. I'll try to find a solution, but Windows 7 is looking pretty good to me.
I believe this could be a compatibility issue between my 44VSL and Windows 10. I'm sure Sonar is fine. I haven't even considered this a Sonar problem. If I keep Windows 10...I'll probably need a new soundcard.

Richard Cranium

clintmartin
Again...I open Mixbus 3.0 played it for a couple of seconds and saved project. Then close Mixbus.
I open Sonar and get the message. Open the soundcard and everything is set fine, but I have to switch it, and then switch it back for Sonar to work. Very Strange. Is Windows 10 worth it? Not to me. I'll try to find a solution, but Windows 7 is looking pretty good to me.
I believe this could be a compatibility issue between my 44VSL and Windows 10. I'm sure Sonar is fine. I haven't even considered this a Sonar problem. If I keep Windows 10...I'll probably need a new soundcard.

When I read your original post I done a google search for your sound card and Windows 10, one of the things that turned up was the Windows 10 compatibility statement from Presonus which stated compatibility with Windows 10, another thing I read was that another reviewer/testing site reported full compatibility with Zero issues
 
http://support.presonus.c...ompatibility-Statement
 
 
http://pcaudiolabs.com/windows-10-for-pro-audio/
 

AUDIO INTERFACE
The PreSonus Audiobox 44VSL was utilized, using the latest drivers available. The interface worked flawlessly in all cases.
 
 

NOTE - this second link was also using Sonar Platinum.

 
Well I call BS on that!!! Hahaha.
I'm rolling back to 7 now. I'm typing this on a 7 year old linux laptop that works perfectly by the way.
I've read everything from Presonus...including that VSL is now discontinued, so it won't get better.
I did notice a difference in Windows 10 when I could get it to work with Sonar. I have never been able to use the 64 buffer setting. I'm usually at 128. The latest Presonus driver has worse latency, so I'll go back to the previous driver on it too. I'll have to get another soundcard to use Win 10 and probably to keep on the upgrade path with Sonar.
I'm thinking I may wait until something breaks.

I think if you stuck it out, and yes I know it takes time, time you might not have or want to spend on it, but if you did and got it all working fine, I doubt you would regret the decision or look back for a moment.
 
I had zero issues myself, apart from a bit of 'culture shock' initially where I wanted it to be more like Windows 7 Pro, I done the roll back dance, but like you came back again, and just got used to it, from that point on there was no turning back.
 
Anyway, best of luck with it.

I'll move it out of problem reports

Well, I happen to have the Presonus AudioBox 1818VSL, which is the big brother to what you have.
 
I am running that into a USB 2.0 port with Windows 8.1, and it works flawlessly for me.
 
I was just looking through the Presonus web site, checking for any driver updates for my interface, and for an expansion unit I also have (DigiMax FS - which adds 8 more inputs using ADAT to connect to my AudioBox 1818 VSL, giving me 16 inputs).
 
Anyways, you had posted earlier about VSL being discontinued, so I looked around on their site, and I don't see where your audio interface is discontinued, though my DigiMax FS expansion unit is.  Here is the link to their site, showing all of their discontinued products as of now:
 
http://www.presonus.com/products/Discontinued-Products
 
Additionally, I don't understand why a large buffer would cause any crashes in Sonar, and in fact, when done with recording and moving on to mixing/mastering, your would WANT to set the ASIO Buffer Size to be either 1024 or 2048 - to allow more heavy duty plugin effects to be used.  (look-ahead processing or CPU hogs).
 
Aren't there any crash dumps or logs available that might show what is going on?
 
Are you plugged into a USB 2 port or a USB 3 port?
 
Is the Sample Rate in Sonar set the same as the audio interface's Sample Rate?
 
Do you happen to have your Windows Default Audio Device set to also use the ASIO drivers for the audio interface?
 
Do you have any hard drives that have variable speeds?  (they usually claim to be Green)
 
Does your computer have Sleep/Hibernate enabled?
 
Bob Bone
 

The VSL discontinuation notice is for the mixer software part of it, and has nothing to do with the hardware going away.  They ran into a problem on the Mac OSX platform, and they decided to drop the PC development of that mixer software, that's all.
 
They indicate in the notice text that the hardware is still offered and supported, and that if they need to make any changes to the UI that they will release some other software that will work just fine.
 
From the notice "Due to the discontinuation of the VSL Software for the Mac OS X platform, PreSonus will no longer be continuing development of VSL Software for the AudioBox VSL Series for the PC Platform. In the event we need to update the driver and control panel, a new version will be released with VSL mixing removed. "
 
Bob Bone

jb101
I had problems with Sonar (on Windows 7) after using Mixbus 3.   I tried several things, but ended up uninstalling Mixbus 3, and have had no problems since.
 
Mixbus 2 seems fine.  I will re-install when they release another update, and see what happens.

interesting - if you reinstall, can you check if it's after using mixbus without restarting windows before using sonar, or if it's just by having mixbus installed?