Sonar crash

I had something similar with one my projects. It would load, but I blue screened when I played it. Lucky, I had another version of the project, which didn't crash.

musiccontinuum
I had something similar with one my projects. It would load, but I blue screened when I played it. Lucky, I had another version of the project, which didn't crash.

A blue screen is a driver crash.  You can view the details using this utility:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
 
Based on the named driver, you'll want to search for the latest driver update for it.
Some audio drivers can blue screen if a plugin takes down the host because they're not handling that gracefully.
 
This other nirsoft utility will show anything that WER (Windows Error Reporting) has caught.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html
 
Keith

Did you try opening in Safe Mode ? (Hold SHIFT + Open Sonar)
If all else fails, Re personalize. (Hold CNTRL +  Open Sonar)
 
If both of these steps wont do the trick, Delete AUD.INI and restart Sonar, Let Sonar Rebuild the .INI file.

Good day to all,
This resembles the same issue I  was having. It seems that it was after the last win 10 update. What I  did was locate the problem child, where it was located and remove the program, Pro, Plat,....etc. I  did find it in some odd places. Was not listed in programs and features. I removed every instance of the program and also removed the CCC completely. After the search and removal of said programs I  started from scratch with the latest version of CCC. Once that was loaded correctly I  loaded Sonar (Plat), and when complete all things were working correctly. Even the problem with the newer CA2A was gone. Hope this helps. Win10, I  don't think  is playing fairly. Oh yes!......I  forgot to mention that I  had removed the audio interface drivers and connections before the reloading of Sonar Plat. Hope it all gets resolved for you.
MJ

scook
A project is launched in Safe mode by holding SHIFT while opening a project.
A partial re-personalization happens if holding SHIFT while starting SONAR.

have you tried launching sonar while holding down CNTRL ?

chuckebaby
have you tried launching sonar while holding down CNTRL ?

Yes, but not recently. I do not want to reset SONAR back to factory defaults.

Don't suppose any of these are Dell systems with either AlienRespawn or Backup and Recovery?
Doesn't seem like it from the descriptions, but if the Backup and Recovery is in play, then do a search for version 1.9 and update to that one, or uninstall it and use the built in Backup and Restore.
See this for details:
https://www.cakewalk.com/...NAR-2016-08-and-higher
 
No minidumps?
 
Please try running the app crash view from nirsoft to see if any of the recent crashes got captured by WER.  If so please send those in a report and post back the CWBRN.
 
Otherwise please follow the advice here and save off a crash dump.
 
https://www.cakewalk.com/...kewalk-program-crashes

chuckebaby
okay I see what your saying. whats the difference between them ?
I know you said Factory defaults. but I still didn't understand, thanks.

The full personalization CTRL when opening SONAR, overwrites files in the user directory, resets plug-in categories and some registry entries to defaults. The partial personalization, SHIFT when opening SONAR, replaces files missing from the user directory.

garyhb
I'm not getting BSOD -  only blue spinning ball. SP becomes unresponsive or crashes when pressing play. 
Latest news: my PC reported a disk error on startup but ran WD SMART diagnostic and all criteria passed.
After some research I'm hedging it's the win10 anniversary update is maybe the issue. Going to rollback and chech again.

Hmm, disk error on startup?  smart won't necessarily help much there.  You should do a surface scan using one of the utilities from the drive manufacturer just to be sure.  As far as becoming unresponsive, could be the audio driver or other drivers need a refresh, so be sure to check those for updates. 
 
In the minidump instructions there's some guidance on creating a file if SONAR is hung.  So far my home Win 10 system has been ok.
 
Keith