What's actually wrong? Maybe someone will know how to fix it.

John T

What's actually wrong? Maybe someone will know how to fix it.

Sometimes the Metronome will stop outputting sound and you will have to reboot Sonar to get it working again.

It happened a lot to me in Producer 8.0 ... but seems to have gotten progressively better from version to version, but it still does happen from time to time.

"You open Sonar with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another Dimension Pro - a Dimension Pro of sound, a Dimension Pro of sight, a Dimension Pro of mind. You're moving into a DAW of both music and sound, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Metronomeless Zone!"

Bub, actually the metronome completely disappeared altogether on SHS6XL. I had to uninstall, then reinstall the whole program.

Though I don't recall any details, I think the metronome is a plugin of some sort.  I wonder if a VST scan would help?  
 

As I said before I've experienced the metronome going silent on me in versions of X1 before X1D. I haven't been in X1D much since the update, so I haven't seen this happen, yet.

Furthermore, when it happens it's radomly and there is no set of steps that I can report to reproduce the issue. The same was the case with SONAR 8.5. Yet, without steps to reproduce the problem, I think it's useless to log a bug report.
 
Bub mentioned a restart would get the metronome sounding again. I never tried that (I usually have to start a new project to get it sounding, again,) so I will give it a shot next time, but it's still a creativity smasher. I need the metronome the instant I need it, not a restart away.

I just tested my system with using all the different options for metronome (count in, audio, midi, etc.) recording, playing back, etc.  and it works as it should.  If I find a problem, I will get back to you.  I don't think this is a problem that many have so I don't get the "jump ship" remarks.  I think working with support is #1.

Rimshot

Okay I had an issue yesterday with the "Electronic template" in Sonar X1D where I couldn't turn the metronome off at all !!!
I gave up and worked on another project from another custom Template and there were no problems with that thankfully.

There's definitely something strange with the nome at times. I can't make it do it all the time, but there are times when I start a new project, click on "metro on during recording" and it doesn't turn on. I have to literally right click on the icon, bring up prefs and I just click ok because it's already set and should work. I press record, it works. So something is weird...I just don't know hy this happens.

I'll tell you what else I'm going to do which maybe all of us should consider. It may not be a bad idea to create new project templates as well as track/instrument templates based off of this new version of Sonar. I know we had to do this in the past and it did help with quite a few of my issues. I'm going to start doing them a little at a time this week until I've got them all ready. We may even be able to get away with loading in an old one and just over-writing it using the new version. I'm going to try that first and see if any weird anomalies pop up. But that metronome thing has definitely got me a few times.

I've never had an issue with it disappearing or never turning off/never turning on to where I needed to reboot. That's definitely scary and I'd be concerned with that situation. But I've seen it not work for me several times at the start of a project. Gonna resave some templates and see how I fair. :)

-Danny

Sign me on as one of those that has metronome problems.
Like Bub, I found that a reboot of the PC brings it back but that definitely sucks as far as work around's go.

Mike