jolaw
hi everyone , firstly  thank you for taking your time to reply my post . Much appreciated !
 
I"m using HP pc , intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @3.30hz 3.30 ghz , 16 gb ram. Upgraded to win 10 home .
I only have a korg M50 connected to my pc , no audio interface . For my audio driver i use asio4all . I  have other softsynths such as east west gold edition , komplete 9 , rapture pro, strum Gs2 , addictive drum 1 and 2 ,
 
By the way what is the best settings for the buffer size ? is 6.5msec the best ? I encountered latency problem when i was doing music scoring for a short video. I shifted the slider almost to the extreme left ( Fast )
 
And no , i didn't try to do a clean installation of win 10 , i just upgraded from win 7 to 10 . 
 
Will prefer  to stick to sonar though all my friends are all mac users .
 
 
 
 
 
 

I'd strongly suggest buying an audio interface.  You have way too much money tied up in your system to not get the proper performance out of it.  Even a cheap sub $150 would be much better.

Runs super great here. Can't say the same for myself as the hi-hats are still too %^&$ loud. >:

NO problem at all in Sonar Platinum. Lot of production here! Some problems with Windows until the anniversary release. Now the recording / editing studio is working at his best!
My opinion is that it's primarily important to match the software with a good audio interface. This improves greatly the stability and the affordability.

Another +1 on using a real ASIO interface. ASIO4ALL can work, but it can also produce the exact systems described - dropouts, freezes, etc. In many cases it's not enough to have a different driver installed with ASIO4ALL still on the system. I had a friend with a laptop who installed ASIO4ALL, got sick of the problems, and bought a quality interface with well-written drivers. However, he still had problems with the audio interface that only went away when he uninstalled all traces of ASIO4ALL from his system.
 
I think if no one used ASIO4ALL, the "SONAR doesn't work" posts in the forum would drop dramatically. 
 
FWIW I haven't had a freeze or crash in SONAR in at least six months. I did have two projects with dropouts, but when the Toast notification popped up saying there had been a dropout, I clicked on Help. The suggestion about changing the hard drive buffer size solved the problem for one project, and saving the other as a bundle file, then re-opening it, de-fragmented that project so it no longer had dropouts.

Well if your seeing double its because one message got lost in a recycle bin !!!!!

jolaw
hi everyone , firstly  thank you for taking your time to reply my post . Much appreciated !
 
I only have a korg M50 connected to my pc , no audio interface . For my audio driver i use asio4all . 

This is most likely the root of your problems. you can run into some really weird instability with asio4all and onboard audio. We have plans to improve onboard audio support later on but honestly if you want the best experience with SONAR buy a 2 in 2 out or higher audio interface from Tascam, RME, Focusrite, or MOTU. You will get a way higher user experience stable low latency playback and better audio quality as well. Its worth the investment.
 

The only problem I seem to keep having is missing audio files. I open a project and get the missing audio files screen and can't figure out how to find them or why they disappeared in the first place. Any suggestions?

If you are seeking a solution, it might be a good idea to start your own thread.