Well It Finally Happened, Crashed and Now My Project Won't Play

For some reason all of a sudden I cannot playback my latest project instead Sonar lags then crashes!
 
I did install a couple of new plugins yesterday and they were working fine until this afternoon, the plugins are Voxengo Gliss EQ and Soniformer.  This project is only using the Gliss EQ.  Today I installed the freeware Voxengo plugins available on their website: Stereo Touch, Overtone GEQ, Sound Delay and Marvel GEQ.  At this point my project loaded correctly and I continued to work.  I tried to clone a track and then Sonar crashed, so I restarted and now Sonar will not playback my track at all.
 
I have removed the freeware Voengo plugins and Sonar is still not working.  I have tried safe mode and I can get my project to play if I deny all plugins!
 
Do I have to write down every plugin the safe mode loader reports to me and test loading my project with each disabled?  How can I get back to a working state with my plugins intact?
 
Here are my specs:
i7 920 @ 2.8Ghz
6 GB RAM
Windows 7 SP2
Sonar Producer X1 64 bit with 245 quickfix
 

Phonis...and members in general.  It shows me as a new member because I hadn't spent much time here, but I've been "cakewalking" since Sonar 2.  It would be nice to create a user-experience list of plug-ins.  Probably one already.  Theres a couple since Sonar 7 that has never played fair.  The nastiest one was Steinberg's Groove Agent 3.  Spent hours sifting thru that crash and burn, submitting dump bin reports.  Uninstalled and said good-bye.  Never an issue since then.  So...Steinberg's Groove Agent 3...on the list.  Especially when tech support probably ride the same MBTA greenline subway home from work.  They love the no-mans-land between the two programs.

I have sort of the same issue. I open the project in safe  mode and disable all the plugins and it crashes again anyway. I can't do anything with that project.

Now when I load the project Sonar just crashes.

So I've tried to bounce everything in the project out to clips but Sonar stops halfway and says it is out of space on the storag medium, but its on a drive with 200GB free!  Any ideas?

I thought 245 quickfix was the latest, is there another?

I have an Asus P6T-SE motherboard.

I cannot bound all the tracks to audio as Sonar keeps telling me the storage space isn't enough yet there is plenty.

I hate losing my track.

send the mini dumps to cakewalk support. il go read about the motherboard  bbs....

Phonic


I thought 245 quickfix was the latest, is there another?

I have an Asus P6T-SE motherboard.

I cannot bound all the tracks to audio as Sonar keeps telling me the storage space isn't enough yet there is plenty.

I hate losing my track.

I have the same motherboard-no issues-There haven't been any chipset updates
So you can rule the board (updates) out

0908, but honestly I see no difference from the previous bios. Board is rock solid

"So I've tried to bounce everything in the project out to clips but Sonar stops halfway and says it is out of space on the storag medium, but its on a drive with 200GB free!  Any ideas?"

Hmmm....I'm shooting from the hip here but could this annoyance be related to the 'Picture Cache' folder being maxed out?

Good luck on a solution.

Guitarpima


I have sort of the same issue. I open the project in safe  mode and disable all the plugins and it crashes again anyway. I can't do anything with that project.

I'm finding that X1 is now breaking the majority of my projects this way.  I've had 6 SonarPDR crashes in the last 45 minutes, and 3 reboots.  These Projects become worthless because they are ALL softsynths.  Opening a project in safe mode makes them effectively empty because all of the sounds come from plugins.
 
X1 fails to find/utilize plugins in some projects even though that plugin worked fine earlier in the week.  VST rescans are of no help.  Soundtoys Echoboy is the latest, but it has been Omnisphere, Kontakt 4, Trilian as well.  Indeed, the plugin IS loaded and registered properly because I can start a new project in X1 and load that same plugin and use it no problem.  A project from last week, however is toast, as are 3 of the last 5 recent projects I tried to open.  It used to just be 8.5 era projects that were completely unreliable in X1, now even new X1 projects may not be usable within the week.  This is on a dedicated DAW rackmount system that has been rock solid in 8.5.3, Ableton, Wavelab.  I am no fan of X1, to put it mildly.

Another thing to check is how much space you have left on your main operating system drive (C:) The page file is usually written to the C: drive for buffering.  If you have inadequate space there that could cause you some grief.    With inadequate space there your system will bog down with increased disk writing and CPU usage.