Make sure you don't have any 'clips' selected. Also make sure you don't have any region 'looped' or even just highlighted. Move the cursor / navigator to the beginning of the project.
Sometimes I get that error message and these steps have always fixed it.

Adji


Make sure you don't have any 'clips' selected. Also make sure you don't have any region 'looped' or even just highlighted. Move the cursor / navigator to the beginning of the project.
Sometimes I get that error message and these steps have always fixed it.

+1 to that

I have already froze the drum and bass tracks, so why does say..."processing audio files" about 8 times before it mixes the song...?

I could see it, if I had not already froze the soft synths, but doesn't freezing the soft synths supposedly to take care of this?

So , which one is it?

Have you frozen the tracks or have you frozen the synths?

These are 2 completely different commands with equally different results, and the bigger question is, why are you freezing in the first place?

I think, I thought I read somewhere to unfreeze tracks before exporting. Just thinkin' out loud.

Rocky

When you do a mix...or an export , it is necessary for Sonar to render all the tracks that are not audio ...one by one..... into audio form first.....even if they are frozen. (as I understand it) 

It has to be done one way or the other.... freezing a synth track is a temporary rendering to audio.  If you bounce the tracks to audio and then archive the tracks I don't think you will have that long wait. It will simply process the project audio tracks to the export. 

Since I mostly work in audio these days, I'm not 100% sure the info above is technically correct...... but close. 

When I do an export, it usually consists of audio tracks (guitar/vocals) and unfrozen soft synth patches (Drums/Keys)

Sonar will only make one "pass" after which everything is rendered into a stereo .wav

Bouncing is different! If I was to bounce, say a dozen tracks from BFD2 - Sonar will make one pass for each track.

That's the behavior I see and I believe that is normal and I have to pray that it doesn't crash while its processing the audio data. 

After you have recorded, edited, and mixed your song, you need to export it so it can be turned into a single stereo wave file. Either for putting it ip on the web or for sending for mastering

Here is how you do it:
1. Press CTL-A: This selects all tracks and clips in your project.

2. Selecting CTL-A should highlight your time-line, but if you want to only export part of the project, you go to the time ruler with your mouse and left click and drag all the area's you want exported.

3. Then you select File / Export / Audio. (contnue below)

Its just that easy cheasy.

Thank me,
CJ

I usually take any track I have frozen and bounce it to clip almost immediately.

I'm not even sure why I freeze it.

If I wish to re address the synth, sampler performance I just throw away the clip in the bounced track and do it all over again.

It seems like things act more streamlined and predictable that way.

I never thought about it much. Now I will :-)


best regards,
mike

As LJB said above, the only time you just the multiple processing audio files message is when you have time stretched clips. They have to be independently run through the Izotope radius stretching at high quality before being rendered hence the extra process. I've been meaning to enhance that and do it in parallel to speed things up a bit. Sometime...