Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace

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March 09, 07 11:25 AM (permalink)

Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace

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I started mixing a project and I set up a bus with PerfectSpace on it so I could create sends from my drum overheads, snare, and toms to it. As soon as I activate the sends on my drum tracks to the bus with the PerfectSpace reverb, I press PLAY and nothing happens. Sonar does not play, just nothing.

I deactivated my sends and Sonar will play then. So then I tried this: I left the sends deactivated and pressed play. Sonar started to play. Then while Sonar was playing, I activated the sends. Sonar kept playing and did indeed send signal to the PerfectSpace bus.

I went to export audio with the sends on and I get an error saying the mixdown was aborted. I disable the sends and the export audio works.

I am using Sonar 6.0 Producer (I have not ever downloaded any of the updates yet. I am a bit afraid right now because I have many clients and I don't want to have any delays or anything).

Currently in the project the only other plug I am using is the Sonitus Compressor.

I use a RME Fireface 800 for my interface. I am recording at 24 bit 48KHz.

My buffers are set to 256.

I created a new project from scratch to test this out. I made a single audio track and sent it to a single bus with PerfectSpace on it. It worked fine. But I go back to the full song/mix project I am doing and the problem still exists.

Can anyone give me some pointers? I am at my day job right now so I won't be able to try anything untill this evening.

Thank you,
-Charles

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    seriousfun
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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 1:19 PM (permalink)
    Read the section about latency in the Perfect Space help file.

    Set the latency appropriately within Perfect Space (you might have to experiment), save and restart your project and SONAR.

    Let us know if this allows the project to play.

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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 1:52 PM (permalink)
    I had this problem last night when I changed the input buffer from my normal 2048 to 128 for recording. Changing the PerfectSpace latency (click "info" button in PS) to the same thing fixed it. Since it was the only PS in my project I just had to delete and then reinsert PS for it to work.
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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 4:54 PM (permalink)
    Thank you very much. I have felt so lucky that I have no major bugs with my rig at all, then when this creeped up on me I was worried that my luck had run out.

    I will try this tonight, but I already feel that this is my solution. I will post here when I have tried this to let you know if it worked.

    Thanks!
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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 5:50 PM (permalink)
    I had a post about similar problems with perfect space you could do a search on, maybe it would help you out. What I found is that unless you have you soundcard latency way way high the larger buffers on perfect space won't work it will stop playback unless you are just using/playing one track. Keep it below 16** and everything should work fine.
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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 5:52 PM (permalink)
    Another thing i would like to add is that perfect space cant run when your sample rate is set to 88KHz
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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 6:21 PM (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: JSkeen

    I had a post about similar problems with perfect space you could do a search on, maybe it would help you out. What I found is that unless you have you soundcard latency way way high the larger buffers on perfect space won't work it will stop playback unless you are just using/playing one track. Keep it below 16** and everything should work fine.


    Thanks, I will search for that thread. I had no idea Perfect Space was so picky. I just started to use it finaly and this is what happened. But I would really like to use it, I like the sound of it. Thanks for your help.

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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 09, 07 6:23 PM (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: CJaysMusic

    Another thing i would like to add is that perfect space cant run when your sample rate is set to 88KHz
    CJ


    Is that 88 and above or specificaly 88? That is weird. I record everything at 48 for right now so I guess I am in the clear for that one. I am greatful for your input. I learn something new almost everyday.
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    RE: Sonar 6 won't play with PerfectSpace March 12, 07 11:39 AM (permalink)
    I wanted to let everyone know that I adjusted the latency in Perfect Space to 128 and my buffers in Sonar to 512 and now everything works just fine.

    Thank you for your help. I have no problems with Sonar at all anymore.

    -Charles

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