Reference Guide

1266 Troubleshooting
The Now time is not smooth during playback or scrolls out of view
The Now time is not smooth during playback or
scrolls out of view
If the Now Time does not update smoothly during playback, press the PAUSE (or BREAK) key on
your keyboard to make sure you didn't inadvertently put SONAR in CPU conservation mode. If the
PAUSE key has been pressed, SONAR displays the letter P in the status bar.
If the Now Marker scrolls out of view or off of the screen, press the SCROLL LOCK button on your
keyboard so that SONAR follows the Now Marker.
More “Frequently asked questions” on page 1251.
Plug-in windows flicker or don't display properly
X-Ray is not compatible with plug-ins that use DirectDraw to create their windows, such as many
recent plug-ins by Waves. If a plug-in is not compatible with X-Ray, the plug-in's window will either
flicker or not display properly. If you have any plug-ins that are affected by this, you can exclude the
plug-in(s) from X-Ray by following these instructions:
1. Open the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager (Utilities > Cakewalk Plug-in Manager).
2. In the Plug-in Categories list, select the category that the plug-in you want to exclude is in.
3. In the Registered Plug-ins list, select the plug-in that you want to exclude.
4. If the plug-in is a DirectX effect, write down (or select and copy) the CLSID value that's in the
CLSID field at the bottom of the dialog box.
5. If the plug-in is a VST or VSTi, write down the VST ID value that's in the VST ID field at the
bottom of the dialog box.
6. Close the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager dialog box.
7. Use Notepad to open the XRayExclude.ini file that's in your SONAR program folder
(C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Cakewalk\SONAR
<your version> .
8. At the end of the file, find the [EffectProps View] section.
9. Exclude your plug-in by creating a blank line below the last entry in the [EffectProps View]
section, and then typing:
;[name of your plug-in, but without brackets]
XRayExclude[type the next available number in XRayExclude list, but
without brackets]=[VST ID number, with no brackets, or CLSID number,
with curly braces at start and finish]
For example, if the last entry in the [EffectProps View] section was:
; Waves SSL EQ Stereo