rabeach
soens
That's it! I hereby declare all our Sonar whoas are due to the local power grids. DIRTY POWER is the culprit! Your level of dirt may vary from mine.
Most of us experience a variety of Sonar glitches un-reproduceable by users in different regional locations.That's because each area has it's own power generation, right? They all use different methods to make that power. ie: oil, coal, water, wind, nuclear waste (my favorite), and so on. Then there's the wires, transmission lines, relay stations, etc. all made, installed, and maintained by different companies with different philosophies and agendas.
We're not all on the same grid which means we're not all on the same page when it comes to software bugs.
Sure you can blame things like different system configurations, corrupted installations, out of date drivers, bad clusters, unevenly parsed memory modules, and good ol' user error, but the bottom line is you get out of something what you put into it. Where does it all start? In this case... dirty power!
Case closed! 'Nuff said! End of story! My work here is done!
Curious how many of us are using power conditioners or regulators on our systems? I'm not.
I use an online uninterruptible power supply, one that uses both a rectifier and an inverter. In the USA utilities commonly deviate from 120 volts by up to 15%. Larger deviations occur during load switching and ground faults. Then there is reactive power and the effect it can have on critical electronics. imho an online UPS is an absolute necessity for a stable DAW.
I use a UPS and APC clean power spike surge protectors, many times a lifesaver.
http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=176&ISOCountryCode=DE Here in europe we have still very clean power and no real longtime power failure and interferences.
I have UPS but also APC clean power spike-surge protectors. Everyday 1000 of small spikes and other strange volt peaks accrue that comes from the power lines. This spikes can couse example dropouts and other stange bugs in your system. If you install a APC spike surge protector this can solve many of your problems. I notice a direct improvement when i surge protect my whole studio equipment.
Today a lot of my studio hardware equipment like audio interface, hardware compressors, computer, screeens are also hooked up to UPS too.