Skipping in Cool Edit

[missyschmit]

Has anyone experienced skipping when playing back tracks in Cool Edit? I didn't find a thread about this, I might have missed it. Sorry if this might be a repeat of something that's already been talked about. If anyone has any advice, I'd love to have it.

Thanks!

[Jay_west]

Nope only if your computer memory takes up space it will skip. Thats the only time it skips with me when I have so many programs opened at once.

[missyschmit]

Well - I have 2 harddrives, one is 120 GB and one is 35 GB, and it's 2.79 GHz. When I"m working in Cool Edit, it's the only thing running. This only started today, so we're thinking it's a soundcard or driver problem. We've updated the most recent drivers, and it only skips when in Cool Edit playback. There is enough time during the skipping that it actually slows down the tempo. Weird.

[missyschmit]

It might also be a configuration problem. Any ideas? Thanks so much!

[timboZ]

If you do a mixdown then play the mixdown track is the skipping on it.
You may have some memory-hog plugins.

How much RAM do you have in the PC?
Are you running XP of Win98?

[lpdeluxe]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q310507/

[chessrock]

When this sort of thing happens, there's usually an IRQ conflict involved with your soundcard. Oftentimes, what happens is the PCI slot of your soundcard will be competing with your graphics card, or some bs like that.

Here's a good link for tweaking Windows for audio purposes, in general, and it goes in to good detail about IRQ problems: http://www.pcmus.com/TweakXP.htm

After resolving any IRQ issues, then it's a good idea to get in to some of the common tweaks for Windows (optimising for background services, disable automatic updates, etc). Also, the way Audition works is kind of different from other programs, so if your hard drive is more than 1/2 full, or it hasn't been defragmented lately, then it can skip and sputter during playback. It's kind of funny like that.

Also, if you're using two hard drives ... first off, it's a good idea to make sure that your primary Temp folder isn't on the same hard drive that the program is installed on. Don't ask me why, but for some reason it can make a difference. In general, it's a good idea not to have any programs at all installed on the hard drive that is housing your audio tracks. No plugins, no programs, etc. The ideal is to have the program, all your plugins and everything else installed on to your C drive. While your secondary hard drive should contain nothing but audio files, should always have at least 40% free space or better, and should be defragmented regularly.