OldTimerNewComer


To all concerned....

you may be looking for a monster where the problem is a peanut.

I've been a sonar user since  version 3 and this has been a long standing issue

involving the show midi input in the taskbar preference.

turn it off and see if it helps.

just a thought.

mel

Thanks for the suggestion.  Will give it a try on my office computer with the M-Audio and see if this helps.

This happened to me today. My Sonar X2 PE hangs today due to some 32bit plugins. So I did Ctrl-alt-delete to start task manager>process, as usual I was only able to to stop bitbridge but not Sonar x2, so I log off instead and log in again, Sonar was stopped and was able to restart Sonar immediately. This is way faster than restarting my computer. I am not sure this will work everytime, I havn't done this enough yet.

musichoo That didn't work for me. I now have a go to project that always leaves sonar hanging. I logged off, logged back on Sonar is still running. EDIT: I figured Sonar wouldn't start since it was running in the background but I was wrong. Sonar did in fact start, but with a whole new task running in the back ground with a duplicate of the memory used. So I open my definately gonna hang project and closed it and couldn't get back in. I can see the log off forces things to close just like a shut down. but it still leaves things in their crashed state. I imagine I could keep doing this until I run out of memory.(in my brain)

When I log back on Sonar loads by my Akai mpk88 does not show up in drivers so a reboot is still needed to put things back the way they were.

frankjcc


musichoo That didn't work for me. I now have a go to project that always leaves sonar hanging. I logged off, logged back on Sonar is still running. EDIT: I figured Sonar wouldn't start since it was running in the background but I was wrong. Sonar did in fact start, but with a whole new task running in the back ground with a duplicate of the memory used. So I open my definately gonna hang project and closed it and couldn't get back in. I can see the log off forces things to close just like a shut down. but it still leaves things in their crashed state. I imagine I could keep doing this until I run out of memory.(in my brain)

Yeap, later part of the day, this happened to me too. Sorry, my idea was no help at all. I suspect my problem is that some of my 32bit plugins didn't work with bitbridge very well. I don't know if Jbridge is any better.

I just experienced something along these lines ... may or may not be related.  I had a one-instrument-track project with a 32-bit synth loaded.  Tried to do a replace synth (from the context menu clicking on the mini-keyboard icon in the track header).  The screen went mostly white and X1 would not close.  Killed X1 and it would refused to start again until after I rebooted.
 
If anyone who's experiencing these shutdown problems could see if the same thing happens on replace-synth on their system, it might give the bakers a little bit better clue as to what the problem is.
 

I can confirm that sonar does white out when you try to replace a 32bit synth with another. howere this is different from the hanging we're talking about. White out is a crash that stops you from working. The hanging only happens when you close sonar and it's hanging around in the taskmanager, with the same results as a crash,ie. you can't restart sonar.

frankjcc


I can confirm that sonar does white out when you try to replace a 32bit synth with another. howere this is different from the hanging we're talking about. White out is a crash that stops you from working. The hanging only happens when you close sonar and it's hanging around in the taskmanager, with the same results as a crash,ie. you can't restart sonar.

I can delete the 32-bit synth instrument track and insert a new one with another 32-bit synth without a crash.  But then Sonar crashes when closing the project.  I haven't tested enough to see if this is repeatable.  Also, this is in X1.  I haven't yet installed X2, and I should probably confirm it misbehaves there as well (I fully expect it to) before logging a bug report. 
  
 

Another crash and SONARDPR wont release. 

No Plugs or Synths running at all. Just the Pro Channel.

I was deleting audio as the project was running and bang.