Hey Folks,
 
There is a lag time of 5 seconds or so when I press play after having been away from an open project for awhile (an hour or two). This is by no means a big deal - just an annoyance, but it never used to happen, so I thought I'd run it past you guys to see if you had any thoughts as to what might be causing it and whether there's anything I can do to correct it. 
 
I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I don't recall it happening with X1 or any other previous version, so probably sometime within the last 9 or 10 months. Any ideas? A Sonar setting? A Windows setting?
 
Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
Ben

Have you checked for snoozing hard drives?

Bibs

Hey, Bibs. Thanks for the tip. I'll check when I get back.

Have all power options to always on.
Make sure your PC and USB/FW hubs never go to sleep. This will prevent it. 
 
CJ
 

Thanks, CJ. I had Power Options set so that the PC never went to sleep and the display never dimmed or turned off, but when I opened up "Change advanced power settings", I could see that, like Dibs suggested, hard disks were set to go to sleep after 20 minutes of inactivity. I didn't notice a setting for USB/FW (though I wasn't looking for one) and I'm away from my studio PC again, but I'll check that out later.
 
Thanks, guys.

Virus scanner having to approve access to your wave files?

gswitz
Virus scanner having to approve access to your wave files?

No.

ben are you leaving your devices pluged in via usb when the machine goes idle ?
if you are try a simple reset next time by unplugging/plugging back in.
 
hope this helps.

chuckebaby
I didn't notice a setting for USB/FW (though I wasn't looking for one) and I'm away from my studio PC again, but I'll check that out later.

IIRC , its in your device manager.

Thanks, guys. I appreciate all the helpful feedback.