What did you set the "Playback Prepare buffers" in Edit > Preferences > MIDI > Playback and Recording? It should be at least 500ms.

I had set my midi playback buffers to 512. This is not a full project. I'm working on a new song and am just recording  idea's and I'm using session drummer to work out drum parts that I will actually play when I have the arrangement down. Same with bass guitar, guitar etc. so there are no plugins or anything to cause issues. Frustrating to say the least and failure of simple functions have been typical for me with X2 as i am a simple user of this product. I find Sonar very easy to use and like the new look and work flow but what good is it when simple functions fail and your at a stand still. It's a shame.

I still have the small project it happened to me on. I gave up on it, but I'm the type that can't bring myself to delete anything so I still have it.

It consisted of 1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 kick, 1 snare, and 1 hi-hat.

I never could get the hi-hat to work. It would just not trigger on every other beat. The only thing I could do was to export the track in real time (not fast bounce) and select 'audible bounce'. Then it would work.

Sometimes it just happens ... :(

BTW ... quick OT question ... how do you like that HS10W Sub? I have a pair of the 80M's and was thinking of getting the matching sub.

Mosvalve


I had set my midi playback buffers to 512......

512?
That number is likely to be used in another context. Are you really shure that you set the buffers according to this screen, under the section playback? 500 Milisecond buffers?

 
 
 

Bub


I still have the small project it happened to me on. I gave up on it, but I'm the type that can't bring myself to delete anything so I still have it.

It consisted of 1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 kick, 1 snare, and 1 hi-hat.

I never could get the hi-hat to work. It would just not trigger on every other beat. The only thing I could do was to export the track in real time (not fast bounce) and select 'audible bounce'. Then it would work.

Sometimes it just happens ... :(

BTW ... quick OT question ... how do you like that HS10W Sub? I have a pair of the 80M's and was thinking of getting the matching sub.

Bub, The HS10W works great. You just have to place it and adjust it right so you don't get too much bottom.
 
 

Zonno

Mosvalve


I had set my midi playback buffers to 512......

512?
That number is likely to be used in another context. Are you really shure that you set the buffers according to this screen, under the section playback? 500 Milisecond buffers?

 
 
Yes that's where I set it 512 and your right regarding 512 being used in another context.
  
 

The only thing I could do was to export the track in real time (not fast bounce) and select 'audible bounce'. Then it would work.

Bub, Bouncing in real time works so at least I'll be able to get it done. Thanks. We should refer to or change the name of Sonar X2 to workaround X2. 

Glad I could help Mosvalve. W-X2 ... I like it. :) Tonight ... doing a simple tune ... kick, snare, hi-hat. Tried to Freeze Session Drummer 3 ... It went through the motions, showed the tracks being placed with the .wav data pictures ... it gets to the last track ... and deletes them all and acts like it never did anything. Wait till that one happens to you. This is the 3rd time I've had it happen. It has to be something I'm doing during setup of the SD3 Audio outputs but I cant figure out what.

somrtimes sonar makes me walk way, i get so confused. like tonight i was trying some dem pro scractch samples. i found a good one opened dem pro again to add another layer, Crash and frozzup 3 times i tryed it.
also movin the pencil tool in the vocal bus to fix a level crashed it the sameway. just some thing to rememeber ,on workaround x2
fresh head tommorow i hope brings the workaround fairy to my house with my coffee.
 same project in x1 ran flawless. i always use x1 now its safeness

I had a lot of trouble with missing notes in Session Drummer until I change the MIDI buffer.  Hope this helps.

Note that I do not always bounce the drums anymore.  I export audio with "Include Live Input."