Sonar 2.0 and recording

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ok, here is a (not so) brief rundown of my problem.
I am trying to record 4 tracks under sonar 2.0(running win xp).
track 1 is a mic, track 2 a keyboard and tracks 3 and 4 are samplers. I can record enable tracks 1 and 2 OR tracks 3 and 4 but not any combo of them.(IE 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 or all 4 at once.) when i try to enable them together the audio engine stops, as if i had some sort of feedback loop. ive looked everyhwere and im pretty sure i dont, and ive scoured the options, now i am out of ideas. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
NuIndustry
 
You need to be more specific. What kind of system are you using? Which Soundcard?

If you are getting feedback when arming tracks, it most likely means your system/card doesn't have the horsepower to monitor inputs in realtime. You need to go to Audio->Options and turn off Input Monitoring.
 
Sonar 2.0 recording

Im using a roland vm3100 pro with a roland rpc card for recording. i should be able to get 8 tracks in and out no problems. my system is an athalon xp2000 with 512 ddr 333 ram and an ata133 60 gig hard drive. power shouldnt be the problem. I CAN run 12 reason rewire tracks and only get to about 20 percent cpu usage. its just these 4 audio tracks in particular.
 
Input Monitoring

Ok, tried without the input monitor and the audio engine still stops whenver i arm some of the tracks together. It seems odd because 1 and 2 are fine together and so are 3 and 4 but trying to arm 1 and 3 or 1 and 4(ditto with ch. 2) brings the audio engine to a stop.
 
Try this...
Open Options/audio
drag the latency slider full left and run the Profile Soundcard.
Then move the slider to the right a bit at a time until recording works reliably.
Do stop any anti virus program from running. You will have to get in the habit of stopping it from it's taskbar icon before opening Sonar.
There is a setting in Sonars Aud.ini file called "stop if starved" but I can't remember what you do to change it. It doesn't appear in Sonar 1 aud.ini.
 
the nature of your problem doesn't seem to be an issue of latency.

you can record 1/2 or 3/4 but not 1/3 or 1/4. that's not latency because you CAN record two tracks at a time.

does your soundcard or whatever regard 1/2 and 3/4 as being stereo tracks? does your soundcard or whatever allow you to record more than 1 stereo track at a time?

can you record 2/3 at the same time? how about 2/4?
 
Sonar 2.0 recording

Well, i finally solved this problems, and as i figured it was a simple solution. I had the inputs selected as outputs and vice versa in the options audio menu.(not that hard of a mistake to make as the inputs show up as roland rpc-1 input 1, 2, etc, and the outputs show up as roland rpc-1 multichannel 1, 2, etc. with the rpc-1 card.) thanks for all the help and suggestions, and now i can get down to some recording.(finally!)

NuIndustry
 
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