Running SoPro in Win764, disabled the network card so no internet, Have shut off everything I can find, I got a few tracks up but they are blank and empty. I have turned off or removed all the plugins I can l find, And still with only the piano being run and the drum track, Halfway through the third take, Sonar freezes, then becomes non responsive, then shuts down. I'm not sure how many times tonight but I been trying to record this little 46bar piece for some time today. 4am now and this has been going on since at least 7 PM. I don't mind finishing this in Audacity I guess, just curious if this is happening to any one else. May I don't have enough RAM or HDD room, Only 32GB ram and 4TB of HDD, maybe its the CPU, it only has 8 cores and it runs only around 4 to 4.5GHz.
Sigh.....
Frustrated in LA

Hi. I have almost the same pc as you (smaller cpu and less RAM), and mine is running very smoothly (had Win 7 until a week ago). I think it is a settings issue of some sort. Do you use ASIO drivers with your Octa Capture? Is windows and other drivers up to date?
Best of luck.

I think a call to Cakewalk tech support is in order. Good luck.

Update your audio interface firmware and drivers to the latest.
Run windows update.

are you looping? did you freeze/bounce the piano/drums?

Thanks guys!
Thanks for the advice and for letting me vent. I ran windows update, (a bad update is what caused my last complete system crash which required a complete reinstall of windows), which was a bit behind, but only50 or so updates, and after a few heart stopping scares it is all done, firmware and drivers are all up to date on my OctaCapture, no updates from Roland on that in a year or two, and I don't have any loops and the only tracks I have with anything on them yet are the two I'm recording on. Ahem...excuse me, trying to record on. (trying in sonar as recording in Audacity works just Peachy!) Every third or fourth crash/lockup/freeze it would request permission to send a file/notice to the bakers to which I readily gave permissions for, but that has dwindled to ...well I haven't seen one in a while, just the notice that the program had crashed or was not responding, from which it never recovers. Ya think I should call cakewalk even though they have the reports? Actually I think its easier to just do my diddys on Audacity, I also hear that PreSonus has a free Studio One product for free now.  I just happen to enjoy Sonar when it works, had been wrestling for a while about upgrading to Plat but that fight is well over. ...and yes, on the second take, after the updates, Sonar has crashed again, quickly enough to know that the first take wasn't saved. My error there indeed.
Thanks again guys,
 
Still Frustrated in LA,

Run windows update again see if there is any more. Check out the optional updates as well (you might want to install these). Keep running it until done.

Have you installed the latest system program for the interface?

Consider getting the latest chipset drivers (intel driver update site) and your motherboard BIOS from your PC supplier.

Update your display drivers

Can you please paste any errors from the windows event viewer?

If you are running ASIO4ALL uninstall!

Always back up!

Thanks doc, I have everything there current, I just did recently a complete reinstall from the windows crash from a faulty update, updated BIOS and chipset drivers then, ASUS tells me everything is current. I have exhausted the windows update program, no joy there. No ASIO4ALL, undid that years ago. ..And I cant backup tracks that I can't finish because of the crashes, although I have learned to hit save as soon as I get something to work with.
I do appreciate you covering all the bases for me though, we all inherently overlook something and sometimes indeed it is something simple. I will dig in the event viewer in windows and see what I can come up with, this will be lengthy I'm afraid. I do so appreciate your help!

Log Very open to suggestions on how to present event viewer logs, and which ones would be beneficial.
 
Name:      System Source:        RDID1110 Date:          9/1/2015 6:53:34 PM Event ID:      54 Task Category: None Level:         Warning Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      Jams-PC Description: The description for Event ID 54 from source RDID1110 cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
\Device\Rdwm1110001
Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="RDID1110" />     <EventID Qualifiers="32772">54</EventID>     <Level>3</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-01T23:53:34.632421800Z" />     <EventRecordID>25975</EventRecordID>     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>Jams-PC</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data>\Device\Rdwm1110001</Data>     <Binary>00000000010000000000000036000480000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>   </EventData> </Event> Log Name:      System Source:        Service Control Manager Date:          9/1/2015 5:47:17 PM Event ID:      7006 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      Jams-PC Description: The ScRegSetValueExW call failed for FailureCommand with the following error: Access is denied. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />     <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7006</EventID>     <Version>0</Version>     <Level>2</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Opcode>0</Opcode>     <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-01T22:47:17.949968600Z" />     <EventRecordID>25954</EventRecordID>     <Correlation />     <Execution ProcessID="700" ThreadID="5004" />     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>Jams-PC</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data Name="param1">ScRegSetValueExW</Data>     <Data Name="param2">FailureCommand</Data>     <Data Name="param3">%%5</Data>   </EventData> </Event> Log Name:      System Source:        Service Control Manager Date:          9/1/2015 5:47:16 PM Event ID:      7006 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      Jams-PC Description: The ScRegSetValueExW call failed for Start with the following error: Access is denied. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />     <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7006</EventID>     <Version>0</Version>     <Level>2</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Opcode>0</Opcode>     <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-01T22:47:16.639893700Z" />     <EventRecordID>25953</EventRecordID>     <Correlation />     <Execution ProcessID="700" ThreadID="5004" />     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>Jams-PC</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data Name="param1">ScRegSetValueExW</Data>     <Data Name="param2">Start</Data>     <Data Name="param3">%%5</Data>   </EventData> </Event> Log Name:      System Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP Date:          9/1/2015 5:38:44 PM Event ID:      219 Task Category: (212) Level:         Warning Keywords:      User:          SYSTEM Computer:      Jams-PC Description: The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device WpdBusEnumRoot\UMB\2&37c186b&0&STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_GENERIC&PROD_STORAGE_DEVICE&REV_0.00#00000000000006&0#. 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Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />     <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7006</EventID>     <Version>0</Version>     <Level>2</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Opcode>0</Opcode>     <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-01T22:38:44.209584300Z" />     <EventRecordID>25911</EventRecordID>     <Correlation />     <Execution ProcessID="700" ThreadID="800" />     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>Jams-PC</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data Name="param1">ScRegSetValueExW</Data>     <Data Name="param2">Start</Data>     <Data Name="param3">%%5</Data>   </EventData> </Event> Log Name:      System Source:        Microsoft Antimalware Date:          9/1/2015 5:38:44 PM Event ID:      3002 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      Jams-PC Description: Microsoft Antimalware Real-Time Protection feature has encountered an error and failed.   Feature: Network Inspection System   Error Code: 0x80070005   Error description: Access is denied.   Reason: The system is missing updates that are required for running Network Inspection System.  Install the required updates and restart the computer. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="Microsoft Antimalware" />     <EventID Qualifiers="0">3002</EventID>     <Level>2</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-01T22:38:44.000000000Z" />     <EventRecordID>25905</EventRecordID>     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>Jams-PC</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data>%%860</Data>     <Data>4.8.0204.0</Data>     <Data>%%886</Data>     <Data>%%892</Data>     <Data>0x80070005</Data>     <Data>Access is denied. </Data>     <Data>9</Data>   </EventData> </Event> Log Name:      System Source:        Service Control Manager Date:          9/1/2015 5:38:43 PM Event ID:      7022 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      Jams-PC Description: The AsusFanControlService service hung on starting. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">   <System>     <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />     <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7022</EventID>     <Version>0</Version>     <Level>2</Level>     <Task>0</Task>     <Opcode>0</Opcode>     <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-01T22:38:43.732557000Z" />     <EventRecordID>25901</EventRecordID>     <Correlation />     <Execution ProcessID="700" ThreadID="704" />     <Channel>System</Channel>     <Computer>Jams-PC</Computer>     <Security />   </System>   <EventData>     <Data Name="param1">AsusFanControlService</Data>   </EventData> </Event> Log Name:      System Source:        Service Control Manager Date:          9/1/2015 5:13:20 PM Event ID:      7006 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      Jams-PC Description: The ScRegSetValueExW call failed for FailureCommand with the following error: Access is denied. 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I am on a cell so hard to read. Are you writing to an internal disk? Bumping up the read/write buffers to 512kb in advanced preferences for both (sync and caching). A crash when tracking hints a lot at a data stream choke.