The Sunday Report...Supplemental...X1C!

Even tho I've had X1C for sometime now I haven't really done anything to stretch it at all until this weekend (two beds for a big steakhouse chain).  In my piddlin around with X1C it seemed that a lot of the kinks, at least as far as my system was concerned, had been worked out.  And I thought most all of the "wacky" anomalies that were so frequent had been eradicated.  But, sadly, I'm afraid that's not the case.  Now that I've been seriously working the ol girl she's hung up on me just as much as she used to, shown that the anomalies are still there (I still have notes showing in the PRV only about half the time) and even has some new ones to boot.  One is that now I've got a lag of about 2 to 3 seconds after I click the record button on a track to when the button actually engages.  This is constant and on every audio track I did.  Another is that now "bounce to clip" takes much longer than it used to on every clip bounced.  Who knows I could discover more?  At one point as I was working on adding a fill to a guitar track I noticed that my drums weren't playing anymore.  So I popped open their (EZDrummer) track folder and on each track of individual drums the meters were randomly bouncing from zero to full bore and back...it was quite a light show...but no sound.  Had to close her down and restart to get back to normal.  Had a few crashes that were caused by some conflict with Amplitube 3.  You know the drill.  Wished I had a better report, I honestly do.  But, at least for me, ol X1C is still a few bricks shy of a load.  YMMV.

Sorry to hear that yorolpal

Looking at your sig you should be flying.

I'm Using Acer AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800 running at low latency.

It's a shame that this is occurring! 

I'll try that Lance, ol pal.  Is that a known cure all?

Thanks Thomas, ol pal.  It's mostly just nusance stuff.  Didn't stop me from finishing my projects.  Just a PITA;-)

And hey...where is the dang picture cache anyways??  I don't want to screw somethin up by deleting it wrong.
 
 
OK...I found it Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache....
 
Do I delete EVERYTHING??
 
It will redraw then as needed...right??
 
Pookie scared!
 
 

Last time I did I deleted everything. Sonar will rebuild as needed. 

yorolpal


Thanks for the reply John, ol pal.  I'm off to do some deleting.  What's the theory behind this helping solve any of my issues?

It's unlikely but a duff read/write operation causing one or some of the cached files to be corrupt could cause issues.

I've never had a problem with clearing that folder completely, but it's never solved anything for me either.  I clear it out every now and then anyway, maybe once a month or so.

yorolpal


Thanks for the reply John, ol pal.  I'm off to do some deleting.  What's the theory behind this helping solve any of my issues?

I don't know OL Pal. It sure can't hurt from time to time to clear out the accumulated files that gather there, though. 

There was guy with similar symptoms a few days ago and he solved it somehow.

I forget... but maybe worth searching down.

best of luck.
mike

I'm still curious about the notes not showing in the PRV problem. Did you ever get any closer to figuring out a pattern to it? I know we already discussed the show / hide keybinding.

Is this the full-fat PRV, or the in-line one?

Ok good deal.
It has done the record and clip bounce lag miracle fix for me more than once,but ya never know!

I learned about this a couple years back at least now.

There is a default setting for the size of the Picture Cache folder. Once it's full SONAR takes care of deleteing the oldest ones first.

You don't HAVE to delete all the files at all it's just that occassionally one will get corrupted and seeing as it's nigh on imppossible to find that ONE it's just as quick to empty the folder completely as SONAR quite happily rebuilds the pictures that represent the wave files.

Watching the other issue with interest.

posted in the wrong thread...

Ol Pal, there are some plugins that introduce some bad lag "while recording" if they are on the master bus.

Is it possible this project (the 30/60s) have one of those - did you try turning off your master bus plugins just to check if that changed your lag thing?

Also - the pic cache usually doesn't have to be deleted manually - BUT sometimes it does, which could happen from crashes, etc.   It does help as a debugging tool (ie, delete the wovs, etc) as Sonar will redraw them fresh as needed.  So no harm in deleting them.   But only do it if you suspect a problem. as in this case.

Yup...I've been down that road too Billy, ol pal.  The weird thing about this was it was happening when there were no plugs at all on the master buss.  And it didn't get any worse after all my finalizing plugs WERE on the master.  Go figure. 

Sounds like a memory problem are you using a good build of memory? Or is the combination of parts that you have in your computer causing it to lag?
 
You need to be hundred percent sure on what you are using your computer for if it's high tech games than have a powerful computer if its music simplistic and powerful is best. Try not to over complicate things my ol pal? simples TSK!