is the culprit that makes the recording disapear after hitting stop after recording. hit record sing alittle then hit stop and puff its gon instantly .....wish it just did that when when my vocals suck but it is usualy when its perfect AND I MISS THE TAKE COMPLEATLY
has anyone else seen this???? i guess its not tragic but it gets old
and also
 Vvocal has trouble picking up tracents unless the track is borderline peaked??is this like this on purpouse to keep me from recording to low. i have the preamp almost cranked now>> any input is greatly apreciated

Try cleaning out your picture cache folder.

thanks john but i dont know what that is and i dont even do vidio if thats what it is. hir record  then stop and gone it is?? anyone else have a idea?? to help

Delete the contents of you Picture Cache Folder, like John said.
This subject pops up about once a week on the forum.
EDIT: HMM...sorry.. I didn't read carefully enough. If the actual recording disappears, not only the video, then it's not about Picture Cache Folder.

ah i think i get it it might be that my drive is not fast enuoght to cach it the drive is the weakest bottle neck of my system and now that i changed from rapture to a older seagate not great with the quad and win 7 64 but again i could be  wrong

No. You're not crazy. It's happened to me twice. It had written the sine wave on recording but once I was done, the wave dissappeared. The clip is still there, the recording is still there but the wave is blank. I have no workaround for it (harder to edit a clip when the wave is not there) but I managed it the old fashioned way, just listen.

I should say this has only happened two times. There is no way to repeat it consistently. It's probably just a small glitch. I noticed the update will deal with a similar issue to wave64 files. I wonder if that issue is related and will possibly fix this glitch.

Otherwise, I'm very happy to report a good workable recording environment for SONAR 8.5.1. I had trouble importing some wav files from an important ProTools project with previous versions of SONAR but 8.5.1 took it with ease. I can now remix this song for inclusion on the new release. This is all still working with Win XP SP3.

I get this sometimes where I push stop and the recording is gone, no wave, no sound.

No wave, that's the picture cache.

No sound, that's un-acceptable.

Sickvision, do you know for a fact there's no sound, or just assuming because the waveform's gone?

If the latter, empty your picture cache.  It's number nine here:

http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/FAQ/CCW_FAQ.aspx

yeah i no about picture cache problems. Also, I know sometimes it can make sonar record snappier as corrupt files in the picture cache can cause sluggish recording process...

For me, when it happens, during a recording, I push the space bar to stop, and the wave immediately disappears completely. I can play during that section, and there is no audio there.

Its like it didnt register the recording or something.

This happens maybe once a session-