Can't find a reference to this frequently asked question in this FAQ.

Q: "When I record on Track 2, I get the audio from Track 1, too. How do I stop this from happening?"
A: Turn off the "What U Hear" option in your soundcard's recording options. May also be called "Wave Out Mix" or something similar.

Has to be asked and answered on a daily basis. Can we get it added to the FAQ? Thanks, Steve!

I'd like to see the info in this post added. Thanks for the upkeep.

HELP my Sonar installation is stuck on "Updating System Configuration"!

UGH! Weeks I've been waiting and now this ! lol

Thanks, Adam. Glad to see this feature implemented.

The info on this thread has helped TON! I have 512 MB ram, 1.73 GHZ machine, have a delta Omni Soundcard, Use a midisport 2 x 2. I am running into a big problem where there appear to be 2 instruments playing with my keyboard at the same time. I want to use my kepboard instruments because they sound actually halfway decent. How do I remove the additional instrument that seems to be coming from the omni.

I installed the 2nd and 3rd disk after following the instructions in this thread. Am I completely missing something. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the info. Nice work.

ORIGINAL: blue9girl9

I've never received an answer to my problem... so since it sounds like you have the same setup, perhaps you can help?

I've got a DELL PC with 2 xeon processors, tons of ram, all the crap turned off that i don't need for my DAW and 2 Aardvark q10's. Everything worked fine until i installed the second Q10. Now, i get random drop outs - all audio stops entirely. I was rebooting for a while. I contacted Aardvark and they sent me a patch called "cpu.bat", which basically restarts just the sound card. This is extremely disruptive when doing creative work!

Aside from reinstalling everything, which would be disastrous considering how unorganized i've been with my plugins, any clue why this happens and how i can fix it once and for all?

Hi Stefanie

Actually, on ready to give up and sell this crap on ebay , you got MANY good suggestions, but you didn't reply back at all???
Same thing on Aardvark Q10? Sonar 3.1? can't figure out problem .
I don't know anything about resolving your problem, but I do know this forum and the way people work.....I would suggest posting some of your follow-up efforts and their results onto those threads and get/keep the dialog going.

it'd be great to add a section about plug-in management??

ok, i'm totally new to sonar, so u guyz GOTTA help me. :)

first thing, i dont have a compatible sound card with MIDI so i am using only audio.

in the loop construction windoww, i want to save the loop as a different wave file to be exported to my hardsynth.

it saves in the riff format which dont work in the computer. i tried all sorts of formats but it doenst work. any help??

thanks. i greatly appreciate it.

:-)
sam.

hi! Im a newbie here.. and a newbie of computer.. but i like music.. i have a prolem with my sonar 3. i can hear the piano instrument from my keyboard connected to my computer.. but i can't find the option to change it to different instruments... i tried to look for solution from this forum but i can't find it or maybe its there but i just didnt find them.. please help me..

Stupid question, maybe... I have a lot of plugins. Will I need to reinstall anything once I install Sonar 4, and should I install the plugins that come on the Sonar 4 disk, or will it screw things up because I have some of them already (like the Sonitus FX suite which came with S3)?

Thanks!

I am having alot of problems using sonar with the tascam us-428. My latest one is this. I spent the weekend recording songs into my HP 1.2 gig laptop using the 428. The playback thru the 428 was fine but now I am away from home and I'm trying to work with the songs using the laptop as the output. When I press play, the line starts to slowly move across the screen, not quite freezing, but almost. Some unearthly sounds then begin comming from the laptop speakers. Any suggestions?

Well, as promised, here are the aud.ini tweaks that have been submitted to the forum in the last few weeks. I was hoping there'd be more, but this is all there is for now, and I didn't want to sit on this forever as there have already been a couple of posts requesting them. Anyway, I don't doubt this section will grow over time... Thanks to all who contributed.

(These tweaks were, for the most part, submitted before the release of version 4, so should work for Sonar 3, though may or may not for Sonar 4).

JD

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TWEAKS FOR AUD.INI FILE

Since the most common suggestion (to solve problems) is to delete aud.ini and re-profile the soundcard, it's probably a good idea to save any custom aud.ini settings in a separate text file so they can be easily incorporated into the new aud.ini file.

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PicCacheMB = XX

Sets the maximum size of the folder that holds the pictures of your waveforms (.wov files). The default is 20 mb, which is too small. This causes Sonar to have to frequently recreate the waveforms which can take a long time when opening a project.

Recommend you set it to 100 - 200 mb assuming you have sufficient hard disk space available.

On a related note, make sure the picture cache folder is on a different drive than your audio (assuming you have a separate drive for audio).

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Meter Frame Size

MeterFrameSizeMS=<10-200> (default=40)*

Meters in SONAR show peak (or RMS) values at a given instant in time. The actual peak value displayed by a meter is the highest peak recorded in an interval of time referred to as a "Meter Frame". The default size for a meter frame is 40 milliseconds, which is an accuracy of 25 FPS. The ‘MeterFrameSizeMS’ AUD.INI variable allows you to change the size of this interval. It goes in the [Wave] section of AUD.INI. For example:

[Wave]
MeterFramSizeMS=40

Setting this value to a lower value will make the meters record peak info for smaller time slices. However this can also increase the metering CPU and memory cost.

* = although SONAR doesn’t enforce a fixed value range, the recommended range should be between 10 and 200 milliseconds.

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Default EQ Position (SONAR 3 Producer Edition Only)

DefaultEqPosition=<0 or 1> (default=0)

The integrated channel EQ can be either pre FX bin or post FX bin. The default position is pre FX bin, but you can change the position of any channel EQ by right-clicking the EQ plot and choosing the desired position from the context menu.

The ‘DefaultEqPosition’ AUD.INI variable lets you specify the default EQ position for all new tracks/buses. This variable lives in the [Aud] section of AUD.INI, and legal values are: 0 (pre FX) or 1 (post FX). For example:

[Aud]
DefaultEqPosition=1

Note: this variable only applies to SONAR 3 Producer Edition, not SONAR 3 Studio Edition.


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ExtraPluginBufs=128 or 256 or 512

It is necessary to incease this extra plugin buffer size if you are using a plugin which requires delay compensation e.g. Linear Phase EQs, convolution verbs, look-ahead limiters etc. The only negative is a trivial increase in memory usage.


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MOTU 828mkII specific tweak:

In your aud.ini file find the flag called KsUseInputEvent and set the value to 1.
You should notice better perceived latency in WDM with the MOTU drivers using this.

Without this tweak, WDM is noticably more latent than ASIO with the same apparent settings. With the tweak, they seem about the same.

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PCMCIA/Firewire/USB

i can not get any good midi working on my laptop with midi 2x2 , tascam us122 or midiman oxygen 8
any help or info at all
thanks
Ron Lenahan

I do have question for the FAQ page.

If I own licensed versions of Sonar 3 and Sonar 4 (or any 2 versions) and two computers, am I legally allowed to run Sonar 3 on one computer and Sonar 4 on the other?