Uladine
New member
I am awaiting the arrival of Sonar 3 Producer Edition in the mail, and since it requires windows 2000 or XP, I went ahead and upgraded to Windows XP Pro.
I installed the new XP drivers for my ST Audio C-port sound card from the ST-audio website and figured everything would be fine, but I kept getting crazy distorted, slow playback from Sonar 1.31. I raised the Latency slider all the way to the "safe" side but it did not help.
I figured maybe it had to do with the upgrade of XP so I re-installed XP to overwrite the first installation but it did not help either. I uninstalled and then reinstalled Sonar but it did not help either.
The only thing that allows normal playback is lowering the bit rate in Sonar to 16 bit. What gives? I thought XP was supposed to provide better performance than 98.
While in 16 bit mode I can lower the Latency to like 5 milliseconds with no problems. Even at 96khz with 20 audio tracks and several plugins. As soon as I switch to 24 bit its over. 24 bit used to be no problem with 98. I used to operate at 24 bit / 44.1 khz, but now it's seems impossible. By the way, yes my soundcard is set to 24 bit.
As soon as Sonar 3 arrives my band is supposed to start recording a new project and we have a limited time to complete it so I need to get this figured out ASAP.
Maybe it has something to do with the WDM drivers? Would reformating my hard drive help or would that be a waste of time? Perhaps Sonar 3 will work at 24 bit? Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm trying to get to reliable 24 bit / 48 khz operation.
I installed the new XP drivers for my ST Audio C-port sound card from the ST-audio website and figured everything would be fine, but I kept getting crazy distorted, slow playback from Sonar 1.31. I raised the Latency slider all the way to the "safe" side but it did not help.
I figured maybe it had to do with the upgrade of XP so I re-installed XP to overwrite the first installation but it did not help either. I uninstalled and then reinstalled Sonar but it did not help either.
The only thing that allows normal playback is lowering the bit rate in Sonar to 16 bit. What gives? I thought XP was supposed to provide better performance than 98.
While in 16 bit mode I can lower the Latency to like 5 milliseconds with no problems. Even at 96khz with 20 audio tracks and several plugins. As soon as I switch to 24 bit its over. 24 bit used to be no problem with 98. I used to operate at 24 bit / 44.1 khz, but now it's seems impossible. By the way, yes my soundcard is set to 24 bit.
As soon as Sonar 3 arrives my band is supposed to start recording a new project and we have a limited time to complete it so I need to get this figured out ASAP.
Maybe it has something to do with the WDM drivers? Would reformating my hard drive help or would that be a waste of time? Perhaps Sonar 3 will work at 24 bit? Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm trying to get to reliable 24 bit / 48 khz operation.