My waveforms are gone, but I still hear audio; it says Busy in the corner of the clip

If your audio clips are labeled “Busy”, the waveform display has not finished drawing yet, or may be corrupt. To force SONAR to redraw waveforms in the current project, perform the following steps:

1.	Press CTRL+A to select all clips.

2.	Right-click any selected clip and select Associated Audio Files on the pop-up menu (or press SHIFT+K).

3.	Click the Recompute Picture(s) button, then click OK to close the Associated Audio Files dialog box.

If you are still experiencing trouble with waveform redrawing, do the following:

1.	Exit SONAR and navigate to C:\Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache.

This is where SONAR stores the temporary waveform displays for recorded audio clips, but this folder does not contain any actual audio data.

2.	Press CTRL+A to select all files inside the folder, then press the DELETE key to delete the files.

Note: Do not delete the Picture Cache folder itself, only the files within the folder.

SONAR will automatically regenerate the waveform displays the next time you open the project.

If you still have trouble with waveform redrawing, please see Optimized picture cache redrawing.

 

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