Big TIme Sonar Trouble...Please Help

[Hunter]

Also make sure Sonar is on your primary partition, eg the one your os files are on.

Why? Ive never had it on the same partition in five versions of Sonar.

yeah I've had it on different partitions since 3. I make sure everything goes onto the same one though. Mind you, I've had more than my fair share of Sonar problems , but 5 has been the most stable one, although with the most serious bug taken on from 4.04 - you can't assign more than one automation envelope to an effect - they stop working - IMO a staggeringly debilatating bug, and one carried through a complete version upgrade without attention!

[3*s]

I mean't the main executable and it's related files, not audio data and pictures and such. That significantly reduced crashing for me. Maybe it was the result of something else, but that and using one partition type really stabilized Sonar quite a bit more for me. I did this during version 3.

[mayan]

Thanks for writing, Ron. (I'm a Cakewalk partisan from the VERY early days.) I have installed one plug-in with Pace (I swore I wouldn't but I couldn't resist the TimeWARP2600) - but it -so far hasn't crashed Sonar or made it go "poof." (Can the Pace menace de-stabilize the enitre system even though the plug-in is not being used?)

Nope, so far the "poofs" have come from Kontakt and on one entirely new project, Shortcircuit (working with loops). I may have also "poofed" on Albino - a low blow because it's always been rock solid. I don't know what I'm doing in the program which causes it.

Would a reinstall help? A total reformat? Or could it be hardware?

[phrauge]

[quote="mayan"](Can the Pace menace de-stabilize the enitre system even though the plug-in is not being used?)
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Absolutely. That is one of the worst parts of PACE. PACE can make other programs or apps BSOD your DAW even when not using a PACE protected product. It's evil.