Viewing Audio Clips In Track View

[babayaga]

Hi All.

I'm working in Sonar Studio 6.2.1 and when working in track view, the audio clips sometimes 'grey out' and you end up not being able to see the peaks (e.g. to line up the audio clips with other tracks). The things is... if you use the 'zoom out horizontal' button to expand the clip to a huge view, the audio eventually pops into view but is useless to work with. I've noted in the past that selecting a clip and using the 'bounce to clips' option has previously solved this, but for some reason tonight this is not resolving it.

Any ideas?

[SilverHamer]

I am suffering from SDD (Sonar Deficit Disorder) so I can be of no real assistance...except that, in a worse case scenario, if the program has become corrupt (which, in my own experience, is not unusual for PC-based software) you may need to reinstall the program. I have encountered problems with certain programs that became unusable after a Windows Update...so I no longer allow my Windows to automatically receive updates. If there is an update I will read up on it before I allow it. One of the more recent updates was for media player and my media player is still messed up even after running the system restore program.

[MarkE]

Graham
I've never had that happen to me so I doubt if I can be much help. It sounds like a real pain though :(

Something funny happened in my Sonar today. I was recording a bass track on a project that Im working on and Sonar locked up. It seized my entire computer right in the middle of a take. I had to power down to get things running again. Anyway, after I rebooted all of the audio clips were there but they showed as flatline like they had no data. When I played it the sound was there but no visual indication of it. I selected the clips and "bounced to track" and it worked. I went back and deleted the flatlined clips. REALLY STRANGE!!!!!!!

Overall Sonar has been vedy vedy good to me :) It handled that clusterfuck project Pirates like a real pro. I cant imagine using anything else.

[SilverHamer]

Overall Sonar has been vedy vedy good to me :) It handled that clusterfuck project Pirates like a real pro. I cant imagine using anything else.

Woah...so Pirates was a clusterfuck??? HAHAHAHA! I can only imagine that it must have been a real nightmare to take on a project that size with all of the different instrumentation. But you should have seen me when I did my cover of Thick As A Brick! I did it in segments...like the first part of the song which is all acoustic right up to the bit where IA bangs out the Am-D-G on the acoustic before everything turns electric. Then I used the acoustic chord banging for the count-in for the next segment..and so on. When they were all done somewhat to my satisfaction, I produced each segment and then spliced them all together. Was a real pain in the ass but I couldn't see how else I could have done that song by myself.

And so, with that said...when are we going to do Thick As A Brick???

<runs and hides before a pile of bricks falls on me>

JUST KIDDING!!!!

[MarkE]

And so, with that said...when are we going to do Thick As A Brick???



Shit...I'm game. Sign me up hehehehe. I can play that mofo and you can too :) The keyboard work would send David into a tizzy!

Man, that would be a BIG project! It would dwarf the 32 minutes of Tarkus that we are planning.

The reason that Pirates was a clusterfuck was that it contained something like 40 to 50 separate tracks. Many of those tracks contained many multiple clips. many of those tracks were driving vst effect plugins all in real time. It literally ran my CPU to the limit. On the bottom of the screen, Sonar shows the CPU and disk usage as a percentage. Things would start coming unraveled when the CPU hit 25-30%. Pirates peaked somewhere around 35-40%. For whatever reason it held on until I got the final mix. I defraged my hard drive so I'm sure that helped too.

The new computer that I have shouldn't have that problem so Im not anticipating any trouble with Tarkus. Besides, there are tricks that you can do to reduce CPU load but requires a lot of extra work.