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@synkrotron... I know it's long distance for you but if it's causing a serious disruption in your work it's easier to get a response from Cake support over the phone. Both times I've called I was only on hold for a few minutes and it was well worth the wait and few bucks of LD charges. Extremely helpful folk. Cheers.

Oohhh... Scarey! Long distance "over the pond call" lol. But you're probably right, but I'm going to give it another week or so, simply because I've got that much to learn about other stuff that it's taking the pressure off Rapture for the moment. And I hate to say this, but up to now, I am still preferring my old Absynth over Rapture and even Z3ta, for now at least, but that's probably because I am not spending enough time with my new toys ;^)


And yeah, I probably need to bookmark the Roland QC driver page and check in there at least once a week.


All in all, though, it's been a pile of fun getting back into cake, with the ProChannel stuff, Multidoc windows, BFD Eco etc etc, and also being able to help at least two peeps here this last week or so... loving it... just need to make some moosik

Yup, always stuff to learn. Such a massive program with so many goodies to play with and I keep getting distracted by meatworld stuff. I think I'm gonna have at least a week or so to focus on my little experiments now though without too much distraction... I hope. Stupid meatworld. Anyway, you're good peeps, synkro. Hope you're having an awesome day. Cheers.

in the last few days under heavy usage (2 remixes) X1 has been crashing on simple drag/drop of midi clips here or there. i got it to be almost repeatable. 14 times it crashed this way.  
just wanted to report.


also as a sidenote, after one crash i let it alone for about 30 minutes and it came back without reboot, although the midi indicator never went away. this is the first time its done that. who knows, maybe windows drops the drivers after a timeout period?

I haven't really scratched the surface of the many & varied soft synths in Sonar.

I find a preset that's close to what I want and tweak it a bit.

soundsubs

also as a sidenote, after one crash i let it alone for about 30 minutes and it came back without reboot, although the midi indicator never went away. this is the first time its done that.

interesting, is it the first time you've left it alone long enough?

Happens to me all the time. I have to reboot to kill the process. And yes I use an Axiom 49. 

I'm still curious to know if specific drivers are actually causing the crashes or just not releasing the sonarpdr.exe process.

I too have had this happen when editing sounds in various soft synths such as Rapture. As far as this being a possible driver problem, I had this crash while using a delta 44 and my current Quad Capture, so Im not convinced its that. The screen turns a faded white...then I close Sonar and cannot open sonar again without rebooting the computer. This has probably happened a ten times in the last two two years.

interesting, is it the first time you've left it alone long enough?

 
yeah it was a complete accident. it crashed, i THOUGHT i went to reboot it but didnt, and realized later that the icon was still there.
not sure why i remember it was 30 minutes, other than an autosave.
 
hey. thank god for auto-save.

@Randy... I hate to think this way but if people are having an issue with this on devices other than M-Audio, in my mind, I can only assume it's Sonar having trouble with certain hardware drivers. Maybe we should all yell at the device manufacturers to make sure their stuff works with Cake software. I know Cake isn't the be all and end all of DAWs but I think it has enough of a share of the market to at least be considered when testing new drivers. I may have this issue muddled in my head but although I think Cake should do their best to stay on top of this kind of stuff I could see it being next to impossible if the hardware kids are not playing nice. Make sense at all? Maybe others have more insight on this topic and can share.