stuttering audio with alesis mutlimix fw 16

[thomaswomas]

i've just bought an alesis firewire 16 multimix to run with my cubase se on a g4 ibook. i've started to record full band demos on it. i first record about 9 tracks for drums and on playback everything is fine. then when i start to add guitars, the audio starts to stutter and drop out on both record and playback. it seems to get worse the longer the session goes on, even if i'm not adding anymore tracks and i'm just playing back to mix. before i got the multimix, i used a tascam us-122 and i had no problems with this, even after recording and playing back up to 30 tracks with plug-ins. i've installed the drivers which came on the multimix cd-rom. i have also tried all the different buffer configurations but if that was the cause, then wouldn't it happen whether i was using the multimix or the us-122? has anyone else had this problem and do you know how to fix it cos i'm totally baffled,

thanks

simon

[stinkfish]

You absolutley need to get the new drivers from the Alesis website, and update both your computer and the mixer. That will solve 99% of any problems your having. Hope that helps!

[thomaswomas]

thanks for the reply. since i posted, i've downloaded the latest drivers from the alesis website but i'm still having the same problem. i've also found a forum which has a long thread from people who've had the same problems and it seems that the cause lies with alesis not having completelysorted the drivers out for this product yet. I installed the cubase le software that came with the mixer just as a test and it seems to work better with that program than with cubase se which seems strange to me. it looks like i'll be using le to record and se to mix until i or anyone else can sort this problem out,

thanks

[hulapluto]

Are you running XP service pack 2 by chance? I had numerous issues with getting my mixer to work under service pack 2... even with microsoft's fix. I eventually just reloaded with service pack 1 and everything works fine now. SP2 screws with firewire speeds.

[Ford Van]

I bet you can fix this by using a PCI Latency Timer adjustment application like PowerStrip.