my sonar sometimes doesn't record

hey there. i have sonar3 producer edition. it worked perfectly on my old computer. now i installed it to my new one and i keep getting the following problem: when i make an audio-recording, the waveform preview shows me that i'm actually recording a track. but when i stop the recording it just dissapears in most cases. i think the longer a recording is, the more often it dissapears. is there any cache function i didn't see or anything else in the global or audio settings? (i got read and write caching enabled, but get the same result when i disable them). thanks for helping, sascha

sorry..forgot to mention: i'm using winXP. the same system i had on my old computer. the only difference is: i'm using another soundcard (EWX 24/96).

no. it's like i didn't record anything at all.

sorry, I read your tutorial for posting images, but in my reply window i don't have the image icon. the whole menu is missing, so i post the image codes of the 3 pictures: guess it won't work, but if u copy&paste the adresses it should work, too.

One thing I notice is that you have both ASIO and ASIO4ALL drivers enabled. Your soundcard doesn't need ASIO4ALL and is ASIO capable. If I were you the first thing I would do would be to uninstall ASIO4ALL.

I would also make sure that only the analog and Mixer inputs and outputs were enabled. If you have any tracks using the S/PDIF inputs you aren't going to record anything unless you have signal sources connected to the S/PDIF input.

Are you using the software mixer for recording? If not you can disable the Mixer In driver. Unless you have a reason to use the other in/outs all you need are the analog inputs and outputs.

I notice that only the Left analog channels are available. That doesn't look good.

Okay. Here is what I suggest.

1. Uninstall ASIO4ALL.

2. Select the WDM/KS driver mode in the advanced tab.

3. Run the Wave Profiler in the general tab. You don't see it now because it isn't available in the ASIO mode. It will be visible after you go to WDM/KS driver mode.

4. Post screencaps of all the tabs again. Paint isn't so bad even though it is pretty limited. I would crop the images to just the tabs to make the pics smaller. The images of the tabs will still be the same size. A better, and free, program for image editing can be found at http://paint.net/

screens: sorry, couldn't crop the previous pics

You can crop photos at Photobucket, not that its a big deal.

I would disable all but the #1 wave analog drivers.

What device is the input #4 USB audiogearat?

Also, I suggest disabling the read/write caching in the advanced tab. The Help files says that you should only do that when it is needed and that is usually when using older computers.

A lot of people use ASIO for all and like it. You may go back to using it. But I'm in favor of using as simple a setup as possible when trying to resolve problems. Because you were only getting the left input/output of your analog device you had to get out of ASIO mode to run the wave profiler. Now that it's looking better you might try going back to ASIO mode. Make sure that only the analog input/output is enabled.

sorry to be a pain, but the problem still exists. sonar only keeps the 2 or 3 first recorded tracks and only if they're not too long. i got plenty of empty disk space, also in my temporary folder - so this might also not be the problem. anyone got an idea?

surreal_funfair


sorry to be a pain, but the problem still exists. sonar only keeps the 2 or 3 first recorded tracks and only if they're not too long. i got plenty of empty disk space, also in my temporary folder - so this might also not be the problem. anyone got an idea?

My first suspect would be that you have punch in enabled.  check to make sure your punch in recording is disabled.  if that doesn't work, try a NEW project and see if it happens there.

surreal_funfair


nah! now that i switched back to ASIO (i uninstalled ASIO4all) there is again only left channel available. the strange thing is that i can chose between "left ASIO for EWX 24/96(1) analog in left" and "right ASIO for EWX 24/96(1) analog in left" and "stereo ASIO for.....analog in left" first one records left channel, 2nd one right channel and 3rd one the stereo signal. so why the addition "left"? weird.

this would be because of the way that the soundcard drivers are written - sonar doesn't have any control over that, it just uses what the driver gives it.

You know that card was built for Windows 98!
At some point in time the headaches involved in trying to keep old gear going is just not worth the bother. Your new computer should have come with windows 7. Sonar has evolved way beond verson 3. Just sayin,

@ johnny, i know it's all old, but the soundcard worked perfectly on my old computer, which also was running winXP. and why changing a working system? ..if only it would work now.. @beagle: here you got the only setting options for punch in stuff: (see - not selected) this is the extended transport menu. u can choose 'punch in' (lower symbol on the left) but can't disable the function this appears when you mark a region and do a right click. punch in is always available here u can see my audio options in the above postings. this is the general options - also no 'disable punch in function' or something alike.

By the way - I am still having the same problem as surreal_fanfair - sometimes works, sometimes doesn't - in sonar producer 5 and using m-audio fastrack usb. have fidlled with all of the audio settings to no avail.

if you start a new project does this happen on a new project? or is it only on this one project?