I have 6 audio tracks about 5 min each.
 
I want to record them to cassette with a 30 sec space between each one.
 
So I placed them all in tandem 30 sec apart on one track and hit play to record them all at once.
 
When Sonar got to position 585:01:000, or the 18 minute mark, the audio went silent.
 
I tried bouncing the last clip with the one before it. When I did there was no audio where the last clip used to be, just that center line of silence.
 
So does Sonar quit producing audio after 18 minutes? Or what happened?
 
 
Steve

I seem to recall there being a limit but it's like 4 hours or something. I could be completely mistaken on that but it certainly should not cut out after 18 minutes.

Oh... was it a fast bounce? If so maybe try a real time bounce? Just guessing. Cheers.

soens


I have several audio tracks about 20 min each.
 
I want to record them to cassette with a 30 sec space between each one.
 
So I placed them all in tandem 30 sec apart on one track and hit play to record them all at once.
 
When Sonar got to position 585:01:000, or the 18 minute mark, the audio went silent.
 
I tried bouncing the last clip with the one before it. When I did there was no audio where the last clip used to be, just that center line of silence.
 
So does Sonar quit producing audio after 18 minutes? Or what happened?
 
 
Steve

Yeah,out of sheer "unknowingness",I too would like to know the answer to this,especially if I end up recording my cover version of "Close To The Edge" by "Yes".


Seriously though,Iv'e never seen this "max project length" thing,discussed anywhere?....Bakers?
Bob

A full CD runs longer than 18 minutes and SONAR can handle that. It is limited by your machines resources, so the actual limit depends on your PC.

sonar craps out after a while. when i was setting up a live show about a year ago i was going to work with a 45 min long backing track in an audio lane.  i think it's a buffer flushing thing.  try bypassing all effects (bypass button on the control bar)  and increase your driver's buffers to the maximum.  also, in "preferences/audio/configuration file" set the dropoutmsec to 750 or so, threadschedulingmodel to 2 and minimizedriverstatechanges = 3.

bounce each audio clip down first.

running 32 bit might be a hamper to that as well.  what's your total file length??
lemme know if that helps.  as i understand it you're playing the audio back with sonar and the outputs are plugged into a tape machine that you're recording on right??

there are audio file joiner programs on the net you can use to parse stuff into a long .wav file and then just play that back using windows media player or something if sonar keeps crapping out on you.

Your PC may have the power management feature kicking in at 18 minute.
If your mouse/keyboard is not touched for that time period the PC may be hitting STANDBY....

i thought that was it on my machine for a while as well, simpleman, but had all startup programs/av/etc. disabled and same thing happened.  if you want to test it on your machine - just take one of the loop files, stretch it out 45min and then bounce it down to audio, go to the start of the project and hit play and see how long your machine makes it.  i'd like to know so i could compare preference settings with you.

just trying this in x2 and the now time stopped scrolling at  around 8min in.

edit: now the now position is jumping every 20 seconds or so...

hey, soens, why don't you just export the project as audio then play it back with wmp or itunes or something??