Vst sounds (dimension pro) crashing/freezing Sonar x2!!!!

Anytime I use dimension pro to make a beat in Sonar, usually when I use the pre made drum loops, Sonar crashes/freezes. So I raised the recording/playback buffers, that did not work. I have a brand new quad core cpu with 10 gigs of RAM so I know its not the problem. It happened with Sonar X1 so I bought X2, same problem.I'm using the RME FireFace 800 and their brand new drivers. And I'm using ASIO in sonar. Seems like there is a setting that needs to be adjusted but do not know what to do. Using VST sounds in Sonar seems to be a nightmare. Any Suggestions?????????

You might also benefit from reading this article which details how to do completely remove Dim Pro from your system.


You can then easily reinstall it but you MUST run the installer "As Administrator"

Same here! I have noticed that Dimension Pro 1.5 freezes Sonar X2 in some projects: System: 64 bit Win7, 16 GB ram, 6 cores. Firewire-soundcard.

Note: I am running Dim Pro 1.5 in x64 X1 and X2 -  forgot to specify in my prior post - sorry, 

Bob Bone

I use DimPro all the time and I can't recall it ever crashing with regular, non-looped sounds. I tried using a few of the loops and found that it consistently crashed on some loops. I gave up on DimPro loops and am VERY happy using the media browser with Beatscape content. I wonder if you could point the media browser to the DimPro loops and then drag/drop the loops into a track.

Did a complete re-install of sonar and pro dimension....deleted the registry first so it was a clean re install. Dimension pro still freezing up when using pre made drum loops. It freezes up using other dimension pro sounds but not as quick as when using the loops.

Dragging-and-dropping RX2 loops directly onto an audio track is a safe alternative to DP, but you have to use DP if you want to trigger individual slices, and some loops crash.

Can one or more of you guys list some of the specific loops causing crashes?

I'd like to play around with some of the parameters in Dim Pro and see if that resolves the issues.

There is at least one regular preset Almost There - under the '08' group, it's a guitar sound, and it crashes Sonar - BUT if you adjust 2 of the parameters (have to look them up again, but I did this before and it works), so that the parameter values are set to zero, then save the preset, it will then work after that.

Soooooooo, I am hoping that maybe something like that might fix these, so please list some of the ones you are having trouble with and I will try to see if something can be adjusted that causes them to start working.

Thanks, 

Bob Bone

Thanks Bob for digging that info out of the accumulated forum wisdom!

The 'Almost Together' preset was the one crashing on my machine. So I reckon what is posted in that thread will solve my issues.

Anyway, what puzzle me now: Is it that "Random unipolar" or "Sample Delay" setting that is the trouble maker? Will that cause other presets to crash if set to something other than zero?

This is something to tinker about if you feel like it. If we could isolate that one setting as a trouble maker (i.e. it crashes other preset while all/many other knobs don't crash 'Almost Together') it would raise my confidence in Dimension Pro again ...

Guys, check out this thread. The first post MAY very well fix your problems. --> http://forum.cakewalk.com.m.aspx?m=2074837&mpage=1 

Edit: Woops, looks like you guys are already on to it. :)

The only time I've ever had Dimension pro crash was because that setting was set to something other than 0.

Never mind, it's still crashing on other RX2 files even when the tempo is the same. It just seemed like it was temporarily working for some reason. :(