[Solved] Mind-boggling vanishing clips and more

Hi,
I have been having various issues with recording and playback.  I am pretty knowledgeable with regards to computers, but some of these issues are mind boggling.  I have uploaded several videos to YouTube, (unlisted) describing and demonstrating my problem(s).  
I have no issues with any other recording and playback programs except for Sonar.  
I've been having these issues too often.  Enough to make using the software a gamble and a test of patience.
I have searched the forums and tried different things but no solutions.  

I hope you don't mind the video links.  I'm trying to make it easier for you to see what is happening.  A picture's worth a thousand words.
And I apologize for sounding aggravated and using a curse or two.  These issues must be related somehow.  I did my screen captures, showing these mysterious issues, in Camtasia, and had no probs recording audio and video in that program.
I also have had no other programs except Sonar Platinum open when I am having these issues.  I would be very appreciative to anyone who can help me with this. 

  1.) Recording a track,  I see the audio waveform recording, but when I hit stop, the recorded clip is gone.
sonar vanishing record take
sonar unrecorded after seeing waveform recording
  2.) After normalizing a track with multiple clips, the clips 'shuffle'  ???    
sonar normalizes and shuffles clips
  3.)  Audio dropouts at certain times within a file?  After saving file, it plays normally. ?
sonar issue rogue clip ex
  4.)     why is this happening in Sonar?
  5.)     sonar issue
  6.)    sonar audio engine error again
Sonar is an awesome, intuitive DAW and love it, when it's working correctly. 
Thanks,
Bob
Sonar Platinum,  Windows 10, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 4001 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s), 32 GB of Ram, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, Motu Ultralight Firewire 1394 interface, Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI compliant Host Controller, M-Audio Axiom 25 midi interface
 
 
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You do not have sufficient posts to add links to your posts. I believe links are enabled around 25 posts.
1. Is often caused when auto punch is enabled

Maybe paste the video links with spaces

Windows logs may provide a clue.
 
BTW, the forum does not allow direct upload of images.

Just as an aside, when you normalize multiple clips at once, Sonar puts them all into one single long .WAV file.
What you see on the screen as separate clips are now only pointers into this single mega .WAV file.
 
If your material is long, perhaps has hit some internal limits.

Hmmm, interesting, as I had the exact same issue last night. I was recording a guitar part (no punch in's), saw the waveform drawing as I was recording. Hit stop when I was done, and the waveform disappeared. No sound, no waveform.
 
This happened about 3 times in a row. Figured it must be some random glitch. On the 4th take, everything worked as normal, and didn't have any issues recording the rest of the session.
 
~Jeff

Well, it sure doesn't look like you're doing anything wrong, and it doesn't look like something where you can provide a recipe to reproduce. Does it happen on only this project, or other ones as well? Is it an older project? It does seem like all these problems are related, so I get the feeling if you solve one, the rest will follow. I'm reaching here, but...try saving as a bundle (cwb) file, then opening the bundle file. I hope you get this sorted out.

I can see the videos just fine...that's why it's so puzzling. Things like disappearing tracks and jumping cursors have never happened to me, so unfortunately, I can't say "oh yeah, I've seen that, it's because blah blah blah."
 
Try the bundle thing and also, I'm still curious if it's unique to this project. IOW if you were to start something from scratch using a newer template, can you still get these things to happen.

Not unique to any one project.  There are several projects in the videos, and they are new projects. One of the files was created with a default Sonar template, (4 audio track). I only added Addictive Drums, simple instrument track, and a guitar track with an amp plugin. That's all.  Not even my own template.
I will try the bundle.  Puzzling as heck!
Thanks
Bob E

I too have suffered from the disappearing recording, I feel your pain!
 
Here's what I came up with a few years back, hope it helps.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Solved-Recorded-clips-randomly-disappear-when-recording-stops-m2764221.aspx
 

Is there any difference if you play the track first then hit 'R' to start/stop the recording, then stop the track??

Chuckebaby suggested the clips might be hidden in a take lane, but I didn't see you address that.  I've had your "disappearing recording" symptom happen for just that reason.  Open up and look at all the takes on the affected track to see if its there but was muted somehow (and therefor not showing in the main track).

I've watched your vids and I agree, this is weird stuff. I think it all has a common root cause, and it looks to be hard drive related.
Is it possible to list the contents of your "directory paths" that Sonar is using ? Maybe there's a clue there. What drive are you creating your projects on? Audio folders?
 
 

Clicking on the take lane button of an empty track turns the button blue and adds one empty take lane. (the default take lane).  The button stays blue until you delete (hit the x) the take.  Then it is normal.  I believe this is the default.
So, the blue take lane button doesn't mean there is any data on the track.

With the disappearing recordings, are the clips in your audio folder? (i.o.w., exists but is it just not being displayed?)
 
There is just too much unrelated and crazy stuff happening here. The misspelling 'degragment' is indicative of how often this error message has been seen.
 
Like stickman, I tend to think it's hardware failure we're looking at. Memory, HD driver hardware, faulty power supply (I had one with a leaking smoothing capacitor. Worked fine superficially but did crazy things when more power was drawn, like writing to HD)
 
Is this a new PC, dedicated to music? Are other programs also misbehaving? If you had another DAW installed, this would be ideal because it will access similar drivers and hardware. Reaper is free with nag and could be used to try.
 
Edit: In your videos you do actually say you have other software, video editing for example which would take hardware to similar limits as Sonar, and they work fine.
 
OK, I give up. I have no further ideas to contribute.