Problems recording with Sonar 8.5 and Guitar Rig 4

[joker13]

Hi all,

I've had a good search around here and t'internet but I can't find anything that's helped so I'm hoping one of you clever people might know what's up.

My basic set up is a Guitar Rig 4 + Kontrol as my audio interface running directly into Sonar 8.5. My only problem is with recording. Whenever I record the click track goes out intermittently and I also get a load (but short) buzzing sound, like it's about to crash. It still records the guitar but the track is never in time and has short parts missing.

Here's what I've worked out so far.
It's not my CPU. That never goes above 25%.
I have bucketloads of RAM (8gb) so I don't think it's that.
I've tried ASIO drivers and WDM and that makes no difference.
I've tried Freezing all the guitar tracks but that does nothing.
If I put input echo to on and play over the top I get NO problems.
I've tried turning off the click but still get jumps.

The only way I've managed to get it to work ok is if I mute every track and record dry with a click. So it would seem to be something to do with Guitar Rig? I was using a Guitar Port with Pod Farm 2 previously and I never had any problems like this.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on here?

Thanks

Barry

 

[Emerson Maningo]

You have great hardware specs but I suggest you will check the following:

1.) Check if DMA has been enabled. If this is off, it will significantly affect your recording session.
2.) Check if your hard drive is not faulty. Some drives particularly if they have file system problem can significantly slow down particularly if you are bouncing to the disk.
3.) Confirm if 8GB of RAM has been actually used by your OS. Even though you have 8GB of physical RAM does not mean the OS is actually using this amount.
4.) Have you thoroughly checked that Guitar Rig 4 is fully compatible with your OS? You can check with them.
5.) Do you have a faulty audio drivers in your OS? You can run dxdiag and check if the sound has some issue.
6.) Maybe you already checked this, but I also experience working with computer with good CPU and RAM except that its heat sink is not working (due to dust, etc). So when any CPU and memory intensive activity such as tracking, the computer will freeze and slow down drastically.

Most likely the cause is relating to Guitar Rig 4 software. Maybe its not correctly installed or the installation has been corrupted. Have you check the integrity of the installer file?