Platinum. Start up a project is slow as in 1min 30 Seconds. RESOLVED

What is it like when the tracks aren't frozen? You mention that it only takes 10 secs in another DAW when tracks not frozen. You're comparing apples and oranges. What Sonar is converting is all the frozen tracks.

Same project no frozen tracks in Platinum took 1 minute and 50 seconds to load. Oh and I still got the box with converting in it so the question is what is it converting as the project is all audio no midi.

It sounds like the tracks are at a different bit rate/sample size than the project. That's the reason for the "converting" message.

If you can upload the project somewhere I can take a look at it. Its hard to say without knowing exactly what is in the project. Some troubleshooting you can do is to open the project in safe mode. Then try skipping plugins and see if it loads faster. By a process of elimination you may be able to find whats causing the slow load.

Raises the question why is Sonar scanning it when it is not present in the project?
 
 
 
 
That sounds like you still have vst scanning enabled. If so, unless you're adding new plug-ins, I would shut that off. Some of my plug-ins take a while when scanning at first install or when I add things. It's possible that's what causing the slow load time.
 

try this before reading the whole thing...
i'm not pro just trying to help since i was having the same problem
and here's the quick fix: 
 
1.disable the ethernet device. (in other words pull off the internet cable)
2.disable all the anti-virus programs.  (and microsoft firewalls)
3.Delete the anti-virus program if necessary.
4.see if everything is back to normal.
(sometimes it still freeze a little but still 10 times faster than before)
 
if this method works then read the context below for details...
 
 
don't know if it help but i was experiencing the same problem a day ago,
in my case the reason that makes the project opening process take forever
is that my anti-virus program recently updated some new functions and it
now take all the vst loading processes as hacking intrusions.
 
so when i delete all the Vst from the session, the project opens up a little faster.
and when i delete all the Vsti also, it's almost as fast as when it was normal.   
i thought there must be some errors with my Vst but it's actually my anti-virus program.
i use sonar with my anti-virus open for years but somehow it now think my Vst are threats
and it scans EVERY-SINGLE-MOVE when open a project.
in my case that's the reason why it takes so long to "open", but fast as usual during play-back and editing.
 
i'm not a professional in program engineering nor anti-virus programs so my words might be lack of precision.
anyways here's how i fixed it:
 
1.leave all the internet protecting functions on (since that's the main reason for having the anti-virus program)
2.turn off the "on board" or "software" monitoring functions one by one to test which one is blocking the vst loading.
3.play around for a few minutes to see if the blocking function will switch on automatically. (mine does...)
 
my anti-virus program is in chinese language so i think i'll just skip the screenshots and leave this in text form.