Reference Guide

1302 Initialization files
Initialization file format
Variables in AUD.ini
Variable Type Default Value What it does
MeterFrameSizeMS=
<10-200>
Integer 40 Meters in SONAR show peak (or RMS) values at a
given instant in time. The actual peak value displayed
by a meter is the highest peak recorded in an interval of
time referred to as a "Meter Frame." The default size for
a meter frame is 40 milliseconds, which is an accuracy
of 25 FPS. The MeterFrameSizeMS variable allows
you to change the size of this interval. It goes in the
[Wave] section. For example:
[Wave]
MeterFramSizeMS=40
Setting this value to a lower value will make the meters
record peak info for smaller time slices. However this
can also increase the metering CPU and memory cost.
Note: although SONAR doesn’t enforce a fixed value
range, the recommended range should be between 10
and 200 milliseconds.
PicCacheMB=<size in MB> Integer 20 This variable specifies the maximum size of the picture
cache. The picture cache is located in the directory
specified by the PictureDir=<path> variable
(defaults to <Cakewalk Folder>\Picture Cache).
PictureDir=<drive:path name> Path <Cakewalk
directory>\Picture
Cache
This line specifies where to store the picture cache.
ComputePicturesWhilePlaying=<
1 or 0>
Boolean 1 This option allows waveform pictures to be computed in
the background while audio playback is in progress.
Most modern computers should be able to handle this
load with no problems. Note that work is only done
while new pictures are actually being computed—once
the pictures are finished rendering there is no overhead.
EnablePicCacheThreads=
<1 or 0>
Boolean 1 This option creates extra background worker threads for
the generation of wave pictures when you load a
project. One worker thread is automatically created per
CPU/core. Setting EnablePicCacheThreads=0
reverts back to only using a single thread for picture
computation.
If you are running a system with multiple CPU's or cores
setting this to 1 can greatly speed up the computation of
pictures.
Table 230.