Sample preview in browser is unreliable

[Skelm]

Hi,

Selecting a sample in the media browser, and playing it (not the project) works, but as soon as I play the project the sample is often silenced. I tested it in the same project in the old Cakewalk by Bandlab and it seems to always work, but in the new Sonar it seems to work very sporadically - one sample will play, the next sample won't play and then the first sample won't play. My settings were imported from Cakewalk, so they should all be the same. Any ideas?

[Will.]

48 minutes ago, Skelm said:

Hi,

Selecting a sample in the media browser, and playing it (not the project) works, but as soon as I play the project the sample is often silenced. I tested it in the same project in the old Cakewalk by Bandlab and it seems to always work, but in the new Sonar it seems to work very sporadically - one sample will play, the next sample won't play and then the first sample won't play. My settings were imported from Cakewalk, so they should all be the same. Any ideas?

Open the browser > right click on the Media Tab and choose how you want to preview your samples.

[David Baay]

I did a quick test here and it seemed to be working as expected.

When you're not hearing the preview, verify there's signal on the Preview bus.

Are you soloing anything when this happens?

 

 

[Skelm]

Hi Will, David,

The problem is intermittent - I have made a short video where you can hear the sample play on its own, then it plays along with the track, and then stops playing after switching to another sample and back. I demonstrate it twice in the video. Unfortunately I can't get the video file size small enough to attach here, but I have uploaded a copy to Google Drive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nk883xKjPVBtJdI6grYg3Aj_In6QAtVg/view?usp=sharing

 

[David Baay]

I can't see clearly what's going on in your video. Is the Play button in the Browser turning off when this happens?

I tried to repro that and the only problem I encountered when switching loops on the fly was that the new loop would sometimes play out of sync momentarily until the project returned to the start of a loop region I had set in the project.

This isn't a feature I normally use so I don't have  good feel for how solid it is, and it may well be related to the specific loops you're using. I just created a few quick Groove Clips from my own project content

[Skelm]

Hi,

No, the browser play button stays on, just the audio stops sounding. It could be something about the specific audio files, though they are from a commercial library.