Hi,
The problem is that Sonar is unable to recover after lockscreen:

• Audio driver gets invalidated or something, Sonar shows a popup where NO must be selected in order to proceed.
• Worse, Sonar loses its windows geometry, which is pretty embarrassing in XXI century.

Many apps are smart enough to prevent screensaver/lockscreen from starting, e.g. video players.
Is Sonar that smart? If not, any workaround that doesn't involve 3rd part utility?
 
Thank you!

I get issues when trying to put pc to sleep when Sonar is running as the USB drivers for my Focusrite don't handle things well. I would just disable it in windows or set the timeout for a longer period.
 

I thought this was a standard tweak for a DAW to never let the monitor shutoff, no usb suspend, no harddrive spindown(I have all SSD's anyway) and go with Max power on all cores all the time.  I recommend this

frankjcc
I thought this was a standard tweak for a DAW to never let the monitor shutoff, no usb suspend, no harddrive spindown(I have all SSD's anyway) and go with Max power on all cores all the time.  I recommend this

I agree with this 100%.
I never understood why someone would leave Sonar open and let their PC go in to sleep mode or activate the screensaver. I also run in Max power and only use Sonar when PC is awake, after a session I shut down.

frankjcc
I thought this was a standard tweak for a DAW to never let the monitor shutoff, no usb suspend, no harddrive spindown(I have all SSD's anyway) and go with Max power on all cores all the time.  I recommend this

Absolutely. Let nothing power down or go to sleep while using a DAW.

Among other problems (such as drives being slow to wake up) Windows doesn't always handle waking USB ports up very well or restart drivers until they are needed and then not always very elegantly. Which means when Sonar looks for an audio interface connected to one it can't find it fast enough so concludes the interface is missing.

frankjcc
I thought this was a standard tweak for a DAW to never let the monitor shutoff, no usb suspend, no harddrive spindown(I have all SSD's anyway) and go with Max power on all cores all the time.  I recommend this

Sorry, is that a recommendation for me or for Sonar devs?

chuckebaby

frankjcc
I thought this was a standard tweak for a DAW to never let the monitor shutoff, no usb suspend, no harddrive spindown(I have all SSD's anyway) and go with Max power on all cores all the time.  I recommend this

I agree with this 100%.
I never understood why someone would leave Sonar open and let their PC go in to sleep mode or activate the screensaver. I also run in Max power and only use Sonar when PC is awake, after a session I shut down.

Oh my )
 
Consider this:
 
- You need to keep your station locked when you are away. It can be locked manually or via screensaver in case you have forgotten.
- You have multiple VMs running on your machine so you cannot shut down without a damn good reason.
- Now you play a guitar while Sonar is looped. 5 minutes and the screen is black and Sonar has lost its window.
 
Anyhow, we do not discuss whether the setup makes sense or not. For one person it does for another it does not. The question was how to prevent screensaver while Sonar is running without 3rd party utilities. May be a trick or something )
 

-vince-

chuckebaby

frankjcc
I thought this was a standard tweak for a DAW to never let the monitor shutoff, no usb suspend, no harddrive spindown(I have all SSD's anyway) and go with Max power on all cores all the time.  I recommend this

I agree with this 100%.
I never understood why someone would leave Sonar open and let their PC go in to sleep mode or activate the screensaver. I also run in Max power and only use Sonar when PC is awake, after a session I shut down.

Oh my )
 
Consider this:
 
- You need to keep your station locked when you are away. It can be locked manually or via screensaver in case you have forgotten.
- You have multiple VMs running on your machine so you cannot shut down without a damn good reason.
- Now you play a guitar while Sonar is looped. 5 minutes and the screen is black and Sonar has lost its window.
 
Anyhow, we do not discuss whether the setup makes sense or not. For one person it does for another it does not. The question was how to prevent screensaver while Sonar is running without 3rd party utilities. May be a trick or something )
 

Why would you have several VMs running on a music production machine? It is indeed the norm to configure a DAW/media production machine to never enter any kind of sleep/power save mode. If you don't you will get problems with any DAW, video editing, £D rendering software etc. If I need to lock my workstation, I close my DAW and shut it down.

> Why would you have several VMs running on a music production machine?
This is not the question, you are altering the topic.
 
Just realize that Sonar can be used casually, I am pretty sure that majority of Sonar users are not professional musicians / audio engineers so why should they have a dedicated machine?
I already have a decent station I work on - hence VMs, btw.
Not sure if I need another, pretty powerful computer at home with another pair of monitors, separate audio, and another pair of speakers, leave alone the space required.
 
I understand that a dedicated machine is the right choice for pros but what about the vast majority of the others? ) Providing I am not asking for anything unusual.

I know you know this already..But when your PC goes in to sleep mode/screen saver, USB ports go in to sleep mode, things get funky and not in a good way.
This has been a "No No" from day 1.  *Never let your PC go in to standby when Sonar is open.
You risk all kinds of issues. Im not sure your going to find anyone else who supports the theory of leaving sonar open while in standby mode.
Solution= You can always disable your screensaver (or set the timer for 2 hours) also run your PC in high power mode (in your Windows power settings).
The most important thing is.. After a session is complete, just shut down Sonar. When you want to resume, just reopen Sonar.
 
I wish I could help you more but this is where I end.