Thanks Bob, USB2 - I talked to the techs at RME and they told me there should not be a difference with the drivers though. I have seen that the USB2 ports are preferred over the USB3 ports though.

Guitarmech111
. In the mainframe software world, which I have been a part of for over 30 years, backwards compatibility is key. If the federal reserve was not able to open some databases that were created in prior versions of the software I was a part of, countries would have gone under for a short amount of time. You would not be able to withdraw money from an ATM or your insurance company would not have any records of your coverage or treatments. SONAR is nowhere near that critical in nature to most.  ;)
 

 
Interesting example. The state of a lot of banks IT systems is frankly frightening. Many haven't upgraded their mainframes but rather just maintain them because they have been to frightened to upgrade, instead they build modern IT systems around them so it looks modern, but the core is flimsey. Banks IT systems are terrible on the whole, in the UK we often see the odd bank unable to function because some buggy overnight batch process screwed up their transactions either because mainframe can't cope or they are going through a modernisation program. However UK systems can look extremely hi tech compared to bank of america for instance. So no, backwards compatibility plagues banks.
 
As for the fed reserve they can get away with anything these days it seems. 

robert_e_bone
I cannot for the life of me imagine why you are having these crashes.
 
32-bit plugins?
 
System tweaks you haven't mentioned?
 
Windows up to current maintenance levels?
 
Overclocking?
 
Bob Bone
 

Here ya go Bob, thanks for the follow-up:
32-bit synths - Trilogy, TTS-1(?)
No 32-bit plugs
No system tweaks - 8Core is fast enough
all updates are current on windows, video and audio interface
no overclocking

No other performance utilities running. I do have Malware bytes running though.

And, I do not know one way or the other if Malwarebytes interferes with Sonar operation or not.
 
Might try suspending it or exiting as a separate test.
 
Bob Bone
 
 

Try removing it and see if things improve.
 
Bob Bone
 

Anderton
You seem to have more problems than anyone else, even with operations that are common. I've cloned Sonar tracks with X-series DAWs hundreds of times, even back to the scary X1 beta, and never had a crash. There may be some kind of root cause to all  these problem, and if so, and your time might be better spent trying to find it than constantly fighting Sonar.

Amen!

No crashes today at all. But then, I have not had the volume of work in SONAR I had the other day. Musta been one of those days where stuff just happened.
 
I am taking the Malware bytes info under consideration. I understood that the background processing is negligible.

@Conley - if you haven't yet tried the 2 tests I posted above, can you give them a shot and post back?
 
Thanks, 
 
Bob Bone
 

No problem, Conley - I am happy to try to help you find stability with your system.  I TRULY understand how frustrating things can get.
 
I DO believe there is a good chance of getting things resolved, if you remain engaged and the forum community does, as well.  :)
 
Glad you had a good day with everything, 
 
Bob Bone
 

Thanks guys :) I appreciate the feedback.