Chock it all up to learning. One of those problems that you didn’t know you had until you are cured of it.

I’m speaking of Sonar Multisesson Tracking Loopback Latency.

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I have been busy with other web development projects which have been keeping my working time away from most things digital lofi. So, yeah, no posts really. But no real music to speak of either. I’m going to be expanding my audio production space at the start of next month, and renewing some collaborations, and once more writing about my experiences. But for now I have to make some money and attend to my life. As we all know, these are tough/uncertain economic and political times - or interesting times, which as my friend Michael pointed out is not necessarily a good thing.

Here are something things that have happened around the old digital lofi shack during are posting absence:

A user over on the Sonar forum posted about V-Vocal going hinky on him. A couple of posts in he realized/deduced that he had installed the truly cool and useful digitalfishphones VST plugins. And as soon as he had removed them his problems went away.

Since I had been thinking about this while trying to track down a glitchy (and not in the good way) project of my own the other day, I responded.

“I hate to break it to y’all, ’cause we all love the those digitalfishphone plugs so much, and they are truly high quality freeware, but they are getting way long in the tooth. Their usefulness for Sonar user maybe near a 64-bit end. For me, they have been causing problems in Sonar since version 5. As Sonar’s code base has been optimized and re-written, these little 24-bit plugins are doing something I don’t understand that can cause other VST/DX-related things to crap out. I had a Sonar support tech look at a crash dump from one such incident a while back and he reported that it was some incorrect call from dominion or one of the fillets and that the developer would need to be on it. The developer has stated that since he’s now on a corporate salary he’s not going to update them. I still use them a lot, I just take this into consideration when using them in a project. Great during mixing to insert, bounce, and unload.

“So, you could V-Vocal your track, bounce and then try Spit Fish.” *

Further, while writing this I went and re-read this dev’s site. It’s nice to see someone parlay something they are truly good at into a viable career. Good for him. And that he has left these early incarnations of his work for us to use? Nicely done. What they actually do is over my head. But they are exceptional plugins that have a distinct, useful sound. Use them until they no longer work, and then figure out how to make them work. (Also, read the manuals and let me know if you can make sense of it.)

* Edited, slightly, of course.