Yeah, I've seen dudes complaining about that one. Definitely sounds annoying.

Galandar


I'm having a problem running Sonar X2 Producer. It starts up fine each day. However, after shutting it down the first time, it will not restart. When I open the Task Manager, I see that "SONARPDR.exe" is one of the processes that is still running. If I shut it down in Task Manager, X2 will restart. My question is, is this a bug in the program, or is there a setting/plugin/driver/what-have-you that will cause this?

I've had the same thing happen to me... can't even close it with the task manager. The first few times it happened I rebooted and that took care of that. Other times I just move on to something else and after a few minutes Sonar shuts down, verified with the task manager.

I usually jump in and defend users of integrated audio, and defy the conventional wisdom that you must have a professional interface to make serious music. But in this particular case it really is the sound card and its driver that's the source of your problem. 

You might try running it in MME mode, which is not as efficient but can avoid some of these types of problems. If that doesn't work, google for an updated driver. If you're already up to date on the driver, your best bet is to acquire an inexpensive interface and disable the onboard sound.

Thanks all.  It may not be fixed, but at least I'm pretty sure of where the problem lies.

Here's my 2cents on X2. X1 rarely had a shut down issue. If it had a crash(rare) then you can go to task manager and close down sonar from there. Not so with X2. When you get a crash or a shut down with X2 and can not restart, going to task manager will not help. Sonar.exe appears to be cemented into task manage and OS restart is your only option. The sonar code monkeys have some serious work ahead of them.

Just a couple of things.  If I shut down from task manager, it seems to work, at least to the point of being able to re-start X2.

Moving sideways, is it possible to have no MIDI output devices defined under Preferences>MIDI>Devices?  The reason I'm asking is that, as I looked through different settings, I found that the only MIDI output device that I have listed is the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, which is checked.  I never use it, but it is checked anyway, so I tried to uncheck it.  The little eternal circle spins and spins until you give up and click in X2 somewhere and then it tells you that X2 is not responding.  Could this be what is not allowing X2 to shut down, or is having at least one MIDI instrument required?

I looked in my X2 devices and my GS synth was there but not checked. I checked it, applied the change... no problems. I unckecked it... no problems. I am unable to reproduce the problem you are having.

Okay.  Think I've got it beat.  I could not uncheck the Microsoft GS Wavetable.  X2 would hang and Windows would shut it down.  However, on a hunch I tried rebooting my machine and before doing anything else, I started X2 but did not open any projects.  I went straight to preferences and unchecked the GS Wavetable.  Voila!  It accepted the change, and now I can shut down and restart to my little heart's desire. 

That also solved a problem I was having with recent files not showing up in the File drop-down menu.  I suppose because it wasn't shutting down properly, it wasn't remembering the most recent files.  It didn't help with my BReverb problem (different post) but hey, I'll take what I can get!  Thanks all!