Sonar 3 delivery delayed for Europe

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YES! Finally!

Another Norwegian on the board and he knows the upgrade-prices! Wow, what are the chances?

Gunnar, hvor er HMusikk lokalisert?
 
Haugesund. Great! I spent my winter holiday there working in your hospital. My wife and kids went skiing, but I worked. Much more fun than skiing. Not to mention the Custom Shop Stratocaster I bought for the money earned.
 
Got it!

Had to redirect mail delivery to my work. So here it is. The manual has an ugly dark green color, but as long as the interface is bluish or gray, I will be happy. It will take another two days before I have time to take a closer look at Sonar 3. Too busy at the moment. But all of next week is my Autumn holiday which I intend to spend making music.
 
tombuur said:
Got it!
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Your lucky!!
Did you buy it from Roland DK or direct from Edirol UK??? I have order mine from Roland NO, and if you got it to day there is a chance that I also can get it soon....:-)
 
Bought it from Edirol UK, but Etcetera.co.uk is shipping too, and perhaps a little cheaper?

Anyway, just did a quick install. And I still have the same latency problem. At 2.9 msec it ran about 15 secs before drop out. I will work for a solution around the weekend.
 
I think I just solved it. There is another thread going about latency and they said you should remember to choose the WDM driver in Sonar 3. I tried and so far this seems to work. Thought I had this right in Sonar 2, but perhaps I didn't after all.

Is it correct that lower latency will increase CPU usage. At 2.9 msec I am using 45% running a project with several plugins. But decreasing latency to 98 msec I will only use about 20% of CPU. Also, CPU usage appears to be unaffected by by-passing plug-ins, so I guess they are using CPU power whether you hear the result or not?
 
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Also, CPU usage appears to be unaffected by by-passing plug-ins, so I guess they are using CPU power whether you hear the result or not?
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I don't think so. If I disable a CPU-heavy plug-in like the Waves Reverb I see the CPU-usage is lower than it was.

An audio track with clips will use more CPU cycles than an empty track, and an empty track will use more CPU than an archived one... ;)
 
and an empty track will use more CPU than an archived one... ;)

According to the help file in SONAR archived tracks don't place any load on your computer...(but muted tracks does)
 
Hmmm, there is really something to take a closer look at here. Don't even know what archived tracks are.

What I would like was to get a track right with say 2 or 3 plugins, make a recording of it track and the "mute" this original track somehow. The idea is to reduceload on CPU, but still being able to go back and adjust the original track if needed.
 
tombuur said:
What I would like was to get a track right with say 2 or 3 plugins, make a recording of it track and the "mute" this original track somehow. The idea is to reduceload on CPU, but still being able to go back and adjust the original track if needed.
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I do this all the time. When you get projects with 30-40+ audio files with div. plugins you'll need to do that. When my CPU usage get to high I render some of the tracks (Edit -> Bounce to track) then go back to the original track, right click it and check of “Archived”, then open track manager (“m”) and uncheck (hide) the original track. When you do it this way you could always go back and edit the original track again. I also do this with any soft synths I use (render the original tracks to one track and then disable the softsynth in the synth rack…
 
HMusikk said:
According to the help file in SONAR archived tracks don't place any load on your computer...(but muted tracks does)
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Well, that was my point... ;)
 
tombuur said:
What I would like was to get a track right with say 2 or 3 plugins, make a recording of it track and the "mute" this original track somehow. The idea is to reduceload on CPU, but still being able to go back and adjust the original track if needed.
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This is why we want the freeze-function in Sonar 3.1 :)
 
So what we want is the ability to change a track into an audio recording of it itself with all effects applied. When playing there will be no load on the CPU from plug-ins. Then at the press of a button you go back to the original editable track.

With this approach you wouldn't have to make a recording in a separate track. You just keep everyting in the same place. Nice and ordered.

Yeah, I would like that too ...
 
Just got a email fra Roland (Norway) and they confirmed that they have SONAR in stock now, and will start sending out now....JIPPYYY....
 
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