Audio Thread Priority info

[JazzP]

Is there a way to find out what the Audio Thread Priority of Sonar is?

Hoovering over the Performance indicator in CbB would give info on the Audio Thread Priority the audio engine has in Windows (with Realtime (18) being the level):

However, in Sonar the information is different:

So far Sonar seems to be running fine, but I'm just curious if it is running optimally; most of the settings (including config file) were imported from CbB, but then there might be some very old settings in there that might even work counterproductive? Any insight on how I should read/interpretate this performance info in Sonar and verify whether it's performance is as it should be?

[Wookiee]

@JazzP you may want to search this forum, I suggest you use an external search engine, as the audio engine in Sonar has had some significant changes applied over CbB. In particular to do with P-cores and E-cores, with P-cores being used for  audio processing. 

This was mainly done later part of 2024 Noel  gives a quite detailed explanation, this is why the information is different CbB. 

[JazzP]

23 hours ago, Wookiee said:

@JazzP you may want to search this forum, I suggest you use an external search engine, as the audio engine in Sonar has had some significant changes applied over CbB. In particular to do with P-cores and E-cores, with P-cores being used for  audio processing. 

This was mainly done later part of 2024 Noel  gives a quite detailed explanation, this is why the information is different CbB. 

Yes, there is a lot of info about the performance improvements, of which I read a lot, thank you. And then I'm still wondering if there is a quick way to verify that Sonar is getting the right priorities on my machine in the same way as I could in CbB. None of the post/articles that I found gave me a clear answer on this, so maybe you could be so helpful to point me towards the right post if you are so sure that this info is out there?

[Wookiee]

@JazzP I have to ask what makes you think Sonar is worse than CbB?

What makes you think that Sonar is not making optimum use of the processing power of your PC?

What are you desperate to know about how Sonar is using your PC's resources? 

Sonar's code is built, and improved, on CbB. They have done a lot of work on the whole programme making better use of the CPU, in particular with P & E cores.

Have you examined your settings in Preferences?

The simplest way to make sure any DAW is getting the optimum is never run another main programme at the same time.

[JazzP]

2 hours ago, Wookiee said:

@JazzP I have to ask what makes you think Sonar is worse than CbB?

 

I don't.... that's your interpretation of my question it seems (no offence meant). As I stated in my opening post, I'm just curious to know whether I can verify that Sonar's process is getting the right priority. As you can read in my opening post, Sonar seems to be running fine for me (same settings as CbB) for what I have been doing with it in the last couple of weeks and I'm totally not complaining about performance, and you don't have to convince me that the Sonar engine has been improved compared to CbB. My curiosity would like to know whether the assumption is correct that I am getting the best out of it.

[Wookiee]

20 minutes ago, JazzP said:

I don't.... that's your interpretation of my question it seems (no offence meant). As I stated in my opening post, I'm just curious to know whether I can verify that Sonar's process is getting the right priority. As you can read in my opening post, Sonar seems to be running fine for me (same settings as CbB) for what I have been doing with it in the last couple of weeks and I'm totally not complaining about performance, and you don't have to convince me that the Sonar engine has been improved compared to CbB. My curiosity would like to know whether the assumption is correct that I am getting the best out of it.

I really don't understand what your trying to discover. There are very few changes that you can truly make. 

Most modern software is self configuring for it operational priority against other tasks. Windows scheduler will optimise for best operation. 

However, have you configured your PC as a DAW? 

Have you looked at task manager when Sonar is running will tell you its priority. 

Don't set your PC for background tadk priority that is a very old thing back in the 90's when we only had 1 CPU running at MHz.

Have you run Resplendent LatencyMon, which is free, to determine if your machine is optimised for DAW function. 

I have been using Cakewalk software since 1992, I have never had to make any changes to the PC's other than the default tweaks regarding the machines being DAW's.

Default tweaks. Disable sleep and hibernation, disable screen savers, set power settings to maximum, set CPU's min and max states both to 100%, use wired networking, disabled HDMI audio and the on board audio device.