I have looping and tempo matching turned off when I preview samples, so essentially one-shot mode. WAV samples preview just fine and I can arrow up and down samples without any problems. When I preview recycle loops, many times Sonar freezes on me after auditioning perhaps a dozen loops or so. Am I the only one experiencing this? Is there some way to prevent that from happening?

Thanks!

Yes, it happens to me, too.  I guess the way around it is to avoid one-shot mode, and let the loops loop.

Do you get an error message saying "Out of Memory"?

tbosco


Do you get an error message saying "Out of Memory"?

I don't.  There are no error messages, Sonar just stops responding.  And it's the kind of freeze that requires a reboot, because trying to shut it down from the Taskmanager doesn't work.
 
 
 

I had this in X2 as well - and not certain what the exact cause is.  Either way, I think the loop browser is generally a little unstable.  One thing that made it noticeably worse was playing samples in loop mode, at the same tempo, while the song was looping and then switching samples.  That seemed to get Sonar's processing in a bind and led to the semi-transparent white screen.

Now I just preview loops in isolation and drag them into the track pane to preview with the rest of the track.  Takes considerably longer of course, but has so far avoided crashes.

In fact, X2 does seem susceptible to crashing if you make too many changes during playback (certainly compared with 8.5).  For that reason I tend to apply new inserts, sends, new busses or pretty much anything similar while tranposrt is stopped, and I always make a save before!