Instability

[user6970180344145356]

The instability of this new Sonar on Windows 10/11 vs Cakewalk is REALLY annoying and for sure not worth paying for. Every 5-10 minutes it either crashes having to recover, or the audio starts to mess up/scramble and I have to go into the driver settings and just nudge the buffering up or down one notch and then it resets and works for a few minutes more, then rinse and repeat. It always start glitching after modifying various fx.

[David Baay]

Not the typical experience of course. You should submit a crash dump to Support.

 

[Colin Nicholls]

39 minutes ago, user6970180344145356 said:

The instability of this new Sonar on Windows 10/11 vs Cakewalk is REALLY annoying and for sure not worth paying for. 

I hope you feel better after letting off some steam. Your experience isn't typical, if that helps.
Oh, and fortunately, you don't have to pay for Sonar if you don't want to - there's a Free Tier that gives you all the functionality you need to be productive.

What have you tried? Which VSTs? Can you build up a simple project from empty and add plugins, etc, one by one until you hit a problem?

What driver type are you using, and what is your audio interface hardware? 

Are you switching between different audio applications?  Some Apps remember their ASIO settings and restore them, but Sonar currently does not and you can find that settings have changed from the last time you ran it. 

I realize you are comparing Cakewalk and Sonar, so do you have a sample project that works fine in Cakewalk but causes issues in Sonar? Can you reduce it to the bare minimum and post it here? Perhaps we can reproduce your problem?

[user6970180344145356]

The point is I've got years of working with Cakewalk, then Sonar, then Cakewalk, and now Sonar again so I'm very familiar with all the stupid hoops one has to jump through to ensure that these work well. Yes I'm using ASIO drivers. Yes I'm using a great interface (Clarett+), yes I have a great PC with LOTS of memory, yes I have SSD drive, etc. THIS SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE and I shouldn't have to spend hours hunting down which plugin might or might not be the one it's having a problem with. Yes I can open projects in Cakewalk and they work fine without crashing or scrambling sound and needing buffer reset to make them play well again. 

[user6970180344145356]

BTW, today it even starts glitching without messing with fx, just unmuting or muting any particular track.