X1 Gave me fits last night

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Chuck Puckett
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2011/11/09 13:47:13 (permalink)

X1 Gave me fits last night

I don't know why, but X1 was horribly unstable last night. I was mixing down a recording, using 14-15 tracks. I had a few effects (EQ mainly) on some of the channels, a little reverb on a vocal submix channel. Nothing heavy (no Guitar Rig, for instance, which I have found to be a heavy CPU eater). 
For some reason, every 4-5 edits, Sonar just froze up. Generally it started with some of the channels either going silent, or else like really low volume. Next thing you know, no menus respond, can't save. Had to kill with Task Manager and restart. Turned on Auto-Save (it had not been on), but still kept locking up.

I'm on X1c, not sure of the build number. Seems like I may have recently applied an upgrade. Something must be different, because X1 has been rock solid until now.

It's an HP, 6GB, quad Intel (I'm not at home right now, don't remember all the specifics).

Has anyone experienced any similar instability?

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    Re:X1 Gave me fits last night 2011/11/09 14:11:19 (permalink)
    Not to make light of your frustrating session, but I almost invariably find that there's a logical reason for whatever madness I encounter.

    I was tearing my hair out earlier because a project that played fine last night had lost all its drums today. To make a very long story short, the drums were coming from a hardware synth that had simply stopped responding to every channel above 5 - the MIDI activity light wouldn't even flash on input.  When I went to check out the channel assignments in the synth, I found all kinds of whacky parameter settings. I ultimately had to reinitialize the synth to bring it back to life. I think the CMOS backup battery must be going.
     
    This is a subset of SONAR Bugs I call a WASP... Wasn't A SONAR Problem. 






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