Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time

Author
fHumble fHingaz
Max Output Level: -87 dBFS
  • Total Posts : 182
  • Joined: 2009/01/19 19:19:58
  • Status: offline
2012/02/08 18:23:18 (permalink)

Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time

The other day, I did a shootout for a website where I used a number of different drum samplers - Superior, Addictive Drums, BFD, Studio Drummer & Steven Slate Drums 4 - playing alongside the same musical accompaniment.  I set each respective sampler up in a different project.  When I played the different projects back, everything played in time just as I intended.

However, after I had mixed down each project & rendered it as a stereo file, I noticed that the drums were now out of time with the rest of the audio.  

...now, I will say at this point that I did find a work-around that was successful - I exported the audio using "audible bounce" instead of "fast bounce"...

My question is: why is this occurring? Is there some setting I need to adjust to get it to work like it should?  Has anyone else had similar issues?

Thanks in advance for your input!
#1

10 Replies Related Threads

    fHumble fHingaz
    Max Output Level: -87 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 182
    • Joined: 2009/01/19 19:19:58
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/08 23:48:42 (permalink)
    I'm guessing I'm the only one with this problem, then?
    #2
    cliffr
    Max Output Level: -80 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 539
    • Joined: 2010/02/19 21:44:43
    • Location: Wellington, New Zealand
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 02:16:40 (permalink)
    playing alongside the same musical accompaniment.


    Where did the accompaniment come from ?

    Is it an audio file you imported or dropped into the project ?.

    How much out of time are we talking ?, does it slowly drift further out of time ?.

    I'm wondering if there's a sample rate or clock source problem/conflict ?.

    Hard to say without some more detail.
    Let us know.


    Cheers - Cliff

    i7-950 24 GB, GTX 580, W7/64 Ultimate, Sonar Platinum, Alesis MasterControl, KRK Rokit RP8g2s
    Some Real piano, basses, and guitars, Komplete 8Ultimate, Ibanez guitars, MusicLab RG/Strat/LPC, Trilian, Omnisphere, RMX, EWQL SO Platinum, Pianos, Choirs, VOP, Gypsy, Goliath, SD2, MOR, Ra, HS, HB, too many plugs, Midi controllers, and all kinds of weird gadgets
    My Soundclick Page 
    #3
    fHumble fHingaz
    Max Output Level: -87 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 182
    • Joined: 2009/01/19 19:19:58
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 02:51:13 (permalink)
    The accompaniment is from other recorded audio & midi tracks - bass, guitar. True Pianos & Dimension Pro.  

    The strange thing is, the True Pianos & Dimension both render/bounce accurately, but all of my 3rd party drum samplers are out.

    I checked with Session Drummer 3, & it renders accurately.

    It doesn't go out gradually, its out by quite a bit - more than a 32nd note (@112bpm) but less than a 16th, & consistently delayed. 

    I suspect it may be to do with delay compensation, but I'm not sure - Why does it only do it on my 3rd party synths, & not the ones that come with Sonar? 
    #4
    cliffr
    Max Output Level: -80 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 539
    • Joined: 2010/02/19 21:44:43
    • Location: Wellington, New Zealand
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 04:38:44 (permalink)
    The symptom does sound like a plugin delay compensation issue.

    So if the drums are behind (delayed) it sounds like there's no delay compensation happening.
    I think there's somewhere you can set that per plugin via the plugin manager.

    Other than that I'm not sure what to suggest, and I can't get to my DAW right now either.

    Someone else might chime in with something more.


    Cheers - Cliff

    i7-950 24 GB, GTX 580, W7/64 Ultimate, Sonar Platinum, Alesis MasterControl, KRK Rokit RP8g2s
    Some Real piano, basses, and guitars, Komplete 8Ultimate, Ibanez guitars, MusicLab RG/Strat/LPC, Trilian, Omnisphere, RMX, EWQL SO Platinum, Pianos, Choirs, VOP, Gypsy, Goliath, SD2, MOR, Ra, HS, HB, too many plugs, Midi controllers, and all kinds of weird gadgets
    My Soundclick Page 
    #5
    karma1959
    Max Output Level: -80 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 515
    • Joined: 2008/10/31 10:56:29
    • Location: Brooklyn, NY
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 07:40:05 (permalink)
    Are the drum samples playing back MIDI data?  If so, you may want to try raising your MIDI buffers.
    #6
    twaddle
    Max Output Level: -55.5 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 1967
    • Joined: 2004/07/28 15:46:48
    • Location: Bristol UK
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 08:26:09 (permalink)
    I think your suspicion are right regarding delay compensation.
    I'm not sure about the others but in BFD2 there is an "offline" button
    which may help although I think this is more for solving the problem of truncated notes.

    Steve

    soundcloud  SoundClick  Myspace
    Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, 
    Intel i7 930, 3.40Ghz, 
    12GB Corsair DDR3 
    1TB WD  SATA 6Gb X 2 
    Emu- 0404 PCIe 
    Sonar X1d Expanded
    BFD3 + BFD2 + BFD Eco
    Dual boot windows 7, 32 & 64bit
    #7
    twaddle
    Max Output Level: -55.5 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 1967
    • Joined: 2004/07/28 15:46:48
    • Location: Bristol UK
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 08:28:59 (permalink)
    How strange, the forum moderator's auto pilot deems the word, "su****ion" to be su****ious.
    Wow, it deems both spellings of the same word to be dubious

    Steve

    soundcloud  SoundClick  Myspace
    Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, 
    Intel i7 930, 3.40Ghz, 
    12GB Corsair DDR3 
    1TB WD  SATA 6Gb X 2 
    Emu- 0404 PCIe 
    Sonar X1d Expanded
    BFD3 + BFD2 + BFD Eco
    Dual boot windows 7, 32 & 64bit
    #8
    The Maillard Reaction
    Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 31918
    • Joined: 2004/07/09 20:02:20
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 09:09:09 (permalink)
    fHumble fHingaz


    I'm guessing I'm the only one with this problem, then?


    Nope.

    You are just one of the very few who are paying attention.

    Good luck.


    best regards,
    mike


    #9
    Bristol_Jonesey
    Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 16775
    • Joined: 2007/10/08 15:41:17
    • Location: Bristol, UK
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 09:33:45 (permalink)
    twaddle


    I think your su****ion are right regarding delay compensation.
    I'm not sure about the others but in BFD2 there is an "offline" button
    which may help although I think this is more for solving the problem of truncated notes.

    Steve


    +1

    That's what Fxpansion advised me to do to eliminate note truncation, way back when BFD2 was first released.

    It only ever seemed to happen on cymbals for me, all the other kit pieces rendered perfectly

    CbB, Platinum, 64 bit throughout
    Custom built i7 3930, 32Gb RAM, 2 x 1Tb Internal HDD, 1 x 1TB system SSD (Win 7), 1 x 500Gb system SSD (Win 10), 2 x 1Tb External HDD's, Dual boot Win 7 & Win 10 64 Bit, Saffire Pro 26, ISA One, Adam P11A,
    #10
    fHumble fHingaz
    Max Output Level: -87 dBFS
    • Total Posts : 182
    • Joined: 2009/01/19 19:19:58
    • Status: offline
    Re:Problem rendering virtual drums in Sonar X1 Expanded - goes out of time 2012/02/09 10:12:28 (permalink)
    Are the drum samples playing back MIDI data?  If so, you may want to try raising your MIDI buffers.



    Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately, being a bit thick, don't quite understand the question... I'm not having a problem with any of the samples playing back - they are all there - just delayed.  I have a powerful, eight core i7 processor with 16Gb of Ram, & it's nowhere near breaking a sweat...


    ....Anyhow, I guess it's a bit of a moot point, because I just tried some other projects that I have stored, & I seem to have no problems - they render fine... It just seems to be a bug with that one group of projects - It seems because I transferred the same midi file across all in that group of projects, it has spread the "bug" across them all... weird, but I've had similar strange things happen before in Sonar...


    ...I just thought maybe the Cakewalk bughunters may want to be aware of it.
















    #11
    Jump to:
    © 2025 APG vNext Commercial Version 5.1