If I open up older Sonar projects (pre X2a) , they load fairly quickly.
Usually less than a minute.
All I have to do is "File-New-normal templete" and Sonar X2a
grinds for 3-5 minutes ( or longer ) on an empty project.
 I have tried this on 2 different machines, same result.
Both are Win 7, 64 bit, 16Gig ram.
One PC is i5, the other is Q6600.
I have tried different audio drivers, interfaces. Like I mentioned,
older projects load correctly, quickly.
Saving and reloading the same "new" project still has huge amount of
time wasted waiting. Before everyone jumps the gun and blames VSTs,
there are NONE loaded into the project.
Sonar loads all of my older project quickly, and they do use VSTs synths.
Is there something in the new file system structure for Win 8
compatability?
Because old project load fine, but creating a new project templete
from Sonar causes this load and save delays.
Re-saving and re-loading fixes nothing.
There is nothing in the project - - - -
Sonar boot time is decent, the timing  to rescan the VSTs are as I would expect.
Is there a bug report anywhere for this?
thanks in advance
Donny B
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Sonar X2a, i5, i7, Q6600, Win 7 64 bit, 16Gig mem, 120G SSDs,
4 TBs HDs, Ozone 5, Alloy, Melodyne, MOTU products, M-Audio products

Agreed, same problem here. Loading simple audio-only projects with just a few tracks takes quite a bit to be ready to go. I'm booting from an SSD and using a 500GB HD for project data. Running Sonar X3e.

This thread is well over a year old and referring to Sonar X2a.

I still have no answer to my question about load times. The first load of the day in Sonar takes around 20-30 seconds. After the first project, every project I pull up from then on loads in about 5-6 seconds. If I shut down for whatever reason during the day when I re-boot that first project always takes a long time. It's as if the computer is re-acquiring the location of Sonar and all its plugs and components. I have even waited until it is fully booted up before I blame it on the boot process. Kinda weird. Not a major pain but an eyebrow raiser for sure.

mudgel
This thread is well over a year old and referring to Sonar X2a.

 
Something about old threads just bugs me. But since it has life again. My two cents: New projects created in the current version of X# appear to load much faster than projects created in previous versions. This is true even after saving the older project (like created in X1) under the latest version (X3). Even with new projects, loading times is not as fast compared to loading into another DAW I use with similar project particulars. It's a Sonar thing I think... And with all that is going on under the hood - it may be necessary.
 
Similar to guitarhacker's response - I don't worry too much about the load times as long as it's not indicative of how stable the project is to work with in X3. Although I do admit, a snappier load time is less annoying even for a guy that did come from the porta-studio then 16-track/smpte time capsule. I'm not sure that even happened on earth anymore. Seems a little surreal nowadays. :)