Had to troubleshoot this for a bit to realize, but when Recording in Comping mode, if I'm recording multiple tracks (ex. 20 tracks), I cannot Comp record more than one take (Take Lanes) or I received Audio Drop-outs. For example, I cannot set up a project as a song, and have a band track multiple takes of that song in one project. After the first take, any subsequent takes will fail, due to Audio Dropouts, or a "disk full" error.
 
Now, my understanding of comping mode is that any previous takes are muted. However, I'm guessing the previous take lanes are still played to the I/O buffers, or somehow processed in Sonar, anyway.
 
Question 1: Is this a known limitation, and if so, without divulging too much information, is there a known plan to make this work better in the future with more tracks armed?

Question 2: Is this something that has a known workaround?
 
Thanks!

Hi Brian,
FWIW, I noticed the same thing with comping large numbers of tracks, in my case it was drums. There are some work-arounds(ish) here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2823365, but I haven't really found a good way to get past this. While there is some help to be found in the thread I linked, I've found it to be a limitation in the software that I've just learned to live with.
Alas, not much help, but at least you know you're not the only one...
Dean

You could try increasing your disk buffer and/or audio buffer?
Is your disk very full or fragmented?

Sanderxpander
You could try increasing your disk buffer and/or audio buffer?
Is your disk very full or fragmented?

I've considered SSD, even with the notion that some experts have noted with SSD performance when it is over a certain % utilized. Buffer sizes etc. have all been tested in our sessions. No fragmentation reported by Windows 8.1.

For what it's worth, I've done comp recording with 12 to 14 tracks many times (mainly for drums). So it isn't a limitation in SONAR.

My current work-around is is save each take as a whole new project. Then delete the take and save as a new project, each time. I creates a lot of bundles, when backed up, but I don't experience audio dropouts.