Sonar and Akoustik piano troubles

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Ok, so I'm having some serious troubles with Sonar and NI's Akoustik Piano. I am 99% sure that this is a Sonar problem and would appreciate any help anyone could offer ASAP because I need it for tomorrow afternoon.

When I'm using Akoustik piano in Sonar 7 PE (32 bit version) there is a lot of popping coming out of my speakers that happens when akoustik piano is a soft synth, but this doesn't happen when anything else is MIDI or soft synth. Now first off my system is no slouch, 4 gigs ram, E6600 @ 3.0ghz, Vista64, 8800GTS, 1TB of HDD. So I dont think my system being too slow is the issue. I'm using a Presonus Firebox if that helps at all. Now i dont think this is an akoustik piano issue because A) I reinstalled and things still didnt work, B) It works perfectly in standalone mode, C) when I'm using it as a soft synth, it creates a loud popping noise and then eventually just an even louder pop followed by no audio at all and sometimes it even makes the audio engine in general stop running, but heres the thing, the audio meter on the actual VSTi page is showing proper volume levels for the MIDI input that is being routed into it.

I really am in need of help thanks guys.
 
Are you using the ASIO driver?
Have you upgraded the Firebox firmware to v2.46?
Have you tried increasing the Firebox's latency to see if that solves the issue?
 
deshead said:
Are you using the ASIO driver?
Have you upgraded the Firebox firmware to v2.46?
Have you tried increasing the Firebox's latency to see if that solves the issue?
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Using ASIO driver, yea i had to upgrade the firmware to work with 64bit OS, just tried the latency increase and it fixed the popping but not the dropouts.
 
are you trying to do this from one hard disc??? idealy ya want a sperate drive for system-record to/playback-vsti's... and drives are way cheap right now... i just copped a seagate barracuda 500gig 7200rpm with a 32 buffer for under$100 shipped
 
dementedchord said:
are you trying to do this from one hard disc??? idealy ya want a sperate drive for system-record to/playback-vsti's... and drives are way cheap right now... i just copped a seagate barracuda 500gig 7200rpm with a 32 buffer for under$100 shipped
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Akoustik piano is running from a seperate hard drive than my recording are, its not a computer performance issue.
 
and then to rule it out... is it a crack???
 
have ya asked someone at cakewalk??? i understand their forums are pretty well monitored by the co... i'm on cubase so can only help so much...
 
Two long shots:
Multi-Processor (if yours is a dual-proc):
Try setting the processor affintity of Sonar to a single processor after running it. Not sure in Vista, but in XP you can do it through the Task Manager -> Processes tab -> right-click on the process, sonar.exe -> choose Set Affinity -> uncheck all but one. I've had problems with Sibelius and Kontak Player (also from Native) with midi and a dual processor.

If that turns out to solve it, you can alter sonar.exe to run only on one processor with the MS app, IMAGECFG.EXE. I had to do this with Sibelius.

Video drivers:
When I upgraded to Sonar 7 from 4, I couldn't play anything back without dropouts if I was zoomed in too far. Turned out I needed to upgrade my video drivers. I wonder if you zoomed way out so everything was small and/or checked for an upgrade to your video drivers if it would help. I know you said it's only the combo of Akoustic and Sonar that creates the problem, but...
 
Whale Bone said:
Two long shots:
Multi-Processor (if yours is a dual-proc):
Try setting the processor affintity of Sonar to a single processor after running it. Not sure in Vista, but in XP you can do it through the Task Manager -> Processes tab -> right-click on the process, sonar.exe -> choose Set Affinity -> uncheck all but one. I've had problems with Sibelius and Kontak Player (also from Native) with midi and a dual processor.

If that turns out to solve it, you can alter sonar.exe to run only on one processor with the MS app, IMAGECFG.EXE. I had to do this with Sibelius.

Video drivers:
When I upgraded to Sonar 7 from 4, I couldn't play anything back without dropouts if I was zoomed in too far. Turned out I needed to upgrade my video drivers. I wonder if you zoomed way out so everything was small and/or checked for an upgrade to your video drivers if it would help. I know you said it's only the combo of Akoustic and Sonar that creates the problem, but...
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Well I'm a pretty hardcore gamer so my video drivers are always updated :D

but yea thats a good idea with limiting sonar to single processor i'll give that a shot and get back to you, thanks for the help!
 
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