Hi,
I have been having various issues with recording and playback.  I am pretty knowledgeable with regards to computers, but some of these issues are mind boggling.  I have uploaded several videos to YouTube, (unlisted) describing and demonstrating my problem(s).  
I have no issues with any other recording and playback programs except for Sonar.  
I've been having these issues too often.  Enough to make using the software a gamble and a test of patience.
I have searched the forums and tried different things but no solutions.  

I hope you don't mind the video links.  I'm trying to make it easier for you to see what is happening.  A picture's worth a thousand words.
And I apologize for sounding aggravated and using a curse or two.  These issues must be related somehow.  I did my screen captures, showing these mysterious issues, in Camtasia, and had no probs recording audio and video in that program.
I also have had no other programs except Sonar Platinum open when I am having these issues.  I would be very appreciative to anyone who can help me with this. 

  1.) Recording a track,  I see the audio waveform recording, but when I hit stop, the recorded clip is gone.
sonar vanishing record take
sonar unrecorded after seeing waveform recording
  2.) After normalizing a track with multiple clips, the clips 'shuffle'  ???    
sonar normalizes and shuffles clips
  3.)  Audio dropouts at certain times within a file?  After saving file, it plays normally. ?
sonar issue rogue clip ex
  4.)     why is this happening in Sonar?
  5.)     sonar issue
  6.)    sonar audio engine error again
Sonar is an awesome, intuitive DAW and love it, when it's working correctly. 
Thanks,
Bob
Sonar Platinum,  Windows 10, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 4001 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s), 32 GB of Ram, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, Motu Ultralight Firewire 1394 interface, Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI compliant Host Controller, M-Audio Axiom 25 midi interface
 
 
edit: added [Solved] to subject - sc

Ok,  I  guess the links showing the problems won't appear on the Sonar forum.  So, the above post has no links.
 

You do not have sufficient posts to add links to your posts. I believe links are enabled around 25 posts.
1. Is often caused when auto punch is enabled

I posted another message near the end of April with this in the description
"Disk overrun error while recording but I'm not recording, just playing back"
I've been having these issues for a while.
Here's the link,  which may not show up here.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Disk-overrun-error-while-recording-but-Im-not-recording-just-playing-back-m3598716.aspx
 
Thanks,
Bob

Maybe paste the video links with spaces

I did research that auto-punch post.  Unfortunately it's happening on new files without ever using the auto-punch feature. Thanks for the info though.

Windows logs may provide a clue.
 
BTW, the forum does not allow direct upload of images.

Have you ever cleared the picture folder? The location of the folder is in Preferences > File > Audio Data.
 

Just as an aside, when you normalize multiple clips at once, Sonar puts them all into one single long .WAV file.
What you see on the screen as separate clips are now only pointers into this single mega .WAV file.
 
If your material is long, perhaps has hit some internal limits.

I've tried having sonar recalculate the wave picture, and I've also tried using 2 Hard Drives in my troubleshooting.
A SSD, and a 7200rpm.  Both no more than a year old.  So, I did point sonar to a different or new picture folder.
I will try clearing the picture folder again.  RCMSGUITAR suggested to post the video links with spaces, to get them to show up here.  I added the letter 'm' to the beginning of the links.  Will that work? I'll see after I click post I guess. (just copy and paste the link without the 'm') hopefully.
Thanks again!
 
1.) Recording a track,  I see the audio waveform recording, but when I hit stop, the recorded clip is gone.
mhttps://youtu.be/jpGYPdeY...bsp;    sonar vanishing record take
mhttps://youtu.be/bra19tA_...bsp;    sonar unrecorded after seeing waveform recording

2.) After normalizing a track with multiple clips, the clips 'shuffle'  ???    
mhttps://youtu.be/sqoeGbsw...bsp;    sonar normalizes and shuffles clips

3.)  Audio dropouts at certain times within a file?  After saving file, it plays normally. ?
mhttps://youtu.be/cHLFmoI1...bsp;    sonar issue rogue clip ex
 
4.)     mhttps://youtu.be/rdg37--fp_k    why is this happening in Sonar?

5.)     mhttps://youtu.be/dTz7XoC8TQ4    sonar issue

6.)    mhttps://youtu.be/CCw-KB2QcMc    sonar audio engine error again