dang it I just tripped across this over the weekend. I have a 16th note high hat that is looped and dropping notes. It doesn't take long. I am going to try to bounce the part down and see if it does the same thing. (after work today)

geetsifly


dang it I just tripped across this over the weekend. I have a 16th note high hat that is looped and dropping notes. It doesn't take long. I am going to try to bounce the part down and see if it does the same thing. (after work today)

It should be fine when you bounce it. As far as I know this problem only occurs when looping MIDI. 

Beepster


Not sure if this will help but there is a setting to add a slight faded on start/stop of playback that eliminates pops that occur when stopping in the middle of an audio dense section.

It is in Preferences > Audio - Playback and Recording then adjust the Fade On Start/Stop times.

Cheers.

Thanks for that, was driving me crazy!

A couple of thoughts.  Maybe the "Zero Controllers at stop" might have something to do with it. I know your clip is not technically "stopping" but maybe the resetting of controllers is what's causing SONAR to hiccup.  Try turning it off temporarily and see what happens.

Also, you say the first beat is exactly on zero... maybe try moving that first beat a couple of milliseconds later than zero... I know your problem seems to be at the end of the loop, but it may be that the read ahead to go back to the beginning is effected by this.

Good Luck,

Rob

Thanks for that, was driving me crazy!

Yeah, it's a real ear burner after a while. Glad you got some use out of that because I've picked up some good info about Sonar from quite a few of your posts in the past.

Cheers.

i seem to have thought there was a setting for dropped 16th notes in midi.
was it Effect tails?

my apologies if im off on that.

Some diagnostics to try: 1) does it happen for all softsynths or just some, or only some presets? 2) Are there audio effects on the track or downstream buses (try disabling) 3) are there tempo changes in the loop and tempo-based effects either in the synth preset or on the track or downstream bus?

Disabling the more or less useful "64-bit Double Precision Engine" solves this.

Just a thought....

By adjusting buffers, do people mean ASIO buffers or the MIDI playback buffers which are adjustable in preferences and set too short by default. To short MIDI buffers can cause the kind of dropouts and garbled MIDI that seems to be the problem here and the problem gets worse and worse if the MIDI is looped.

This is an old thread brought back from the dead!!

tlw, I think this problem was resolved in an update. Not sure which update though.

@popstarwannabe, are you experiencing this type of problem with X3e?