Reverted to 8.3

A certain project I've been working on has shown increasing instability the more complex & dense it became.

The main symptom has been a very repeatable dropout at the same place in the song. Increasing latencies & buffer sizes seemed to provide a solution but when I tried to export down to a stereo .wav, SONAR didn't want to know, saying there was insufficient memory.

I've got 4Gig on board my 32Bit system without the 3G switch enabled - would this be a good move?

Anyway, after trying all sorts of possible solutions, increasing latency etc to ridiculously high levels, re-profiled my soundcard, booting up not just SONAR but the entire pc, it still wouldn't do an export.

In desperation, I fired up 8.3, loaded the project and it proceeded to export the project without a single complaint.

Interestingly, with the project loaded, 8.3 was using 966Mb of RAM, whilst 8.5 was consuming about 1.2Gig

Also, the settings in 8.3 were at minimal latency  - I didn't have to raise it in order to achieve a successful export.

So, has anyone else noticed similar problems with 8.5?

This is, by far, the most complex project I've ever put together - 74 audio tracks, about 110 plugs, 65 V-Vocal instances (all running live), with about a dozen or so busses.

At one point, I started to freeze tracks but even with about 25 frozen, 8.5 still wouldn't let me export.

Any ideas people?

Try saving the project from 8.3 to a new filename etc and then loading and exporting from 8.5.

And I would not make any changes to the /3gb switch until you have understood that it can cause your system to not boot at all.

Phil

65 V-Vocal instances?  If I run more than one, Sonar (8.3.1) crashes.  I'm amazed you could even run the project with that many V-Vocals in it.

Regards, lightninrick

I am relieved to read others have this problem, too. It happened to me in version 6 already. The convert to bundle and reimport did not work. In exasperation, I dragged out all the clips and rebuilt the entire project. Ouch!!!

Yeah, interesting read Scott.

I think my main worry is the fact that the older project with just the 14 EWQLSO instances now won't play, either under 8.3 or 8.5.

I can't freeze/bounce/export within the project, so I might be forced to dump the MIDI & synths out, one at a time into a new project, which will be a real PITA as I've got loads of tempo changes in the old version.

I'm not surprised the later prject isapproacihng the limit of my system, as it's got a "statistical density" that I've not got close to in previous projects.

Try turning all synths off in the synth rack, then turn on one at a time to freeze.

Yeah - that worked a treat!

One to store away in my [limited] memory bank!

Bristol_Jonesey


Yeah - that worked a treat!

Hey, glad you got it working!