Hi Peeps,
 
Please forgive me. I've done a search for this but I'm obviously not putting the correct text in the search engine.
 
I have a nice simple project on the go. Just once instance of Twin with a single fifteen minute long note on its MIDI track.
 
I've got seven busses and I have automated the sends to five of them.
 
There are no MIDI events or automation curves beyond fifteen minutes but the project carries on playing until I press the stop button.
 
I am sure I've seen this being discussed before but for the life of me I can't find a solution. I'm sure it's a simple answer
 
Not a major issue, but I think that when I come to export the audio track it's going to be much longer than it needs to be. I know that I can simply trim it down in SoundForge, which I always do anyway, but it takes an age to export the audio.
 
In fact, before hitting the Submit Post button I just exported this project to audio. It was 27 minutes long and not the expected 15 minutes.
 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
cheers
 
andy

Weird...
 
I re-opened the project and it stopped at the end.
 
I think I know why it kept playing past the project end previously:-
 
I sometimes do not get the results that I expect when it comes to effects tails. They sometimes become cropped short instead of fading out to "inf."
 
To work around that I place a short MIDI note, in its own clip, about five or so seconds after the end of the project. I then mute that clip, but I know that the project will still carry on playing to that clip, even though it is muted.
 
When I did this in my current project, the event draw duration was set to that 15 minute long note, which was the last event that I placed. So when I placed my next note, near the end of the project, it was also fifteen minutes long. It didn't need to be that long so I edited it down to a crotchet (hey! not bad for a dumb ambient "musician!").
 
I think that Sonar still thought that my project finished at the end of that second note, even though I had made it much shorter.
 
I've just exported audio and it was the correct length this time.
 
No changed were made to the project at all, by the way, I just closed it and re-opened it.
 
 
cheers
 
andy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
 
That song seems to play forever and ever, tho I think it was intentional.  
 
Good luck with your problem.  Thought a bit of humor wouldn't hurt.

Thanks

Rather than inserting a dummy midi note in it's own clip and muting it, I just drag the last node of any envelope to the point where I want SONAR to stop playing.

Bristol_Jonesey
Rather than inserting a dummy midi note in it's own clip and muting it, I just drag the last node of any envelope to the point where I want SONAR to stop playing.

Hiya Jonesey,
 
Yeah, I've tried that, but it's always been a bit hit and miss for me for some reason. Sometimes it seems to work, and then sometimes it doesn't.
 
cheers
 
andy