Cool edit pro skip

[kikling]

hey guys. long time no talk. I got a question for you all.
My friends studio runs Cool Edit Pro and a Gina card. Sometimes when we record on multi-track for a while, the recording skips. the screen stop for 1-30 secs and then continues. Sometimes the screen skips but not the recording but most of the time they both skip. Is it my system resources. Do i need more free space? What can i do. We are recording a band and it sucks that in the middle of a great take, we have skips. Please help
Thanks
Jack
kikling@msn.com

p.s i also have access to pro tools, if the problem is only with cool edit pro. Would that work?

[PapillonIrl]

How may hard disks do you have ?

It's generally better to have one hard disk for your OS and system files and another for your audio files.

The skipping can be caused because Cool Edit can't read and write to the disk fast enough, I used to have this problem. If you haven't already, try putting in a second hard disk on a separate IDE cable and reconfiguring Cool Edit to use the second disk for some of it's temp files.


Hope this helps,

pAp

[kikling]

Only one hard drive. Any other suggestions?

[rats]

I'm having the same prob. Here's an old thread on this that may help you.

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/sho...+skip+and+hang

[rats]

as said by ixnelly

Make sure DMA is enabled in your ControlPanel/System/DeviceManager/DiskDrive properties. I just had the same hang problems for the past month, and this fixed it for me.

I just did the same thing and it's seeming to work. All hail the great DMA

[Chriss]

I simply reduced my buffer in Options - Settings - System - Wave Cache to 3072 and that did the trick..

Perhaps try and lower your cache a bit before you do anything else...

[Kelly Holdridge]

The best song ever recorded lays dormant on an MD-8 disk for this very reason. It's 16 minutes long, but only 8 minutes (or so) of it made the CD. I thought 8 minutes was a long song, and remembered it being long, and so we all thought that that was the whole song... till we listened to that MD-8. Holy moly, I was wrong. Thanks for the fix, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for a couple of months ago when we "found" this little bugger (if you have the CD, it's "Jam in A" that does the skip around, right abouts 5 min. into the song... i think).

If this fixes the problem, CD to rats and kikling (who should have received it a long time ago, if i had yer addy's). email me, plzzzz!

[Kelly Holdridge]

Now that things are "working" again, I've turned "on" DMA. Windows thinks that things are going to get very bad soon, and to absolutely make sure I'm checking the manual on this one.

Uhm,

I'm not checking the manual, but I know what half of you look like, where you live, and what you do for a living.



Restarting now to "DMA" el systemo.

[Chriss]

I want what kelly is smoking!

[Kelly Holdridge]

(DMA didn't "hurt" the computer, btw. I think Windows gives the warning in case you use 5400 speed drives, slow motherboards, little memory, etc.

I'll run some audio through it later on, letcha know if it fixed MY version of the skip problem.)

[PapillonIrl]

Do, please...a friend of mine is in a similar situation and has been asking me about it.

pAp

[Kelly Holdridge]

Hey, Pap? Check THIS out, it answered some of MY questions about DMA...

http://www.peoriatrader.com/resource...ma_drives.html

I was specifically impressed with "I used HD Tach to test two hard drives with and without DMA enabled. One drive improved its read burst speed from 8.4MBps to 11.9MBps. The other improved from 8.3MBps to 11.2MBps. More important, the CPU utilization dropped from 83 percent to 29 percent on one drive and from 61 percent to 20 percent on the other. Lowering the CPU utilization of a drive allows a computer to process more data or serve more users at the same time as disk files are being transferred."

Also: check out how that page is laid out. Pretty cool, if you ask me (there are related stories that look to be ".asp-ed" into one large page for easy reading, one on top of another).