Sound Forge cutting out

[philboyd studge]

I'm wondering if this is happening to anyone else. When I'm processing a group of songs in Sound Forge 5.0 occasionally I'll get a situation where it chops small portions of the tracks making the song unusable.

I record on a Tascam 788 and import at 24bit to Sound Forge after defragging and I use a program called 'end it all' that removes all the stuff from the toolbar so there's not much in the way of recording or processing. But there's some sort of buffer overrun somewhere.

In this last case I'm not sure if it was in the stereo recording, the processing or the saving down to 16 bit as it was for a client in a hurry to get his 12 songs and we didn't listen to the final stereo mix of everything before burning CD-R's. In the past it's been in the processing phase.

[atomictoyz]

Im not sure what processor your using ,but I had a similar incident once, I re-did the song and it was fine. It could be your hardrive getting a spike or your processor getting a spike in CPU load that so fasts its not noticable with a graphical indicator. Check for IRQ conflicts as well. Good Luck!

Peace,
Dennis

[philboyd studge]

Dennis,

Thanks, I'll take a look around.

Cpu is an athlon with 512 megs of ram. Don't know what problem is yet but I'm sure Bill Gates is behind it.

[williamconifer]

Just another thought. I usually try restarting computer/windows before doing real intensive processing. Programs don't always give back their ram when they shut down. You know how Windoze is. If something doesn't work just reboot the computer.

I work in Acid3 and if I get a lot of dropouts while live monitoring I reboot and it seems to help.

jack

[philboyd studge]

Yeah, that often does help. I'm using Windows ME and it seems to cache everything. 'End It All' seems to work well for making reliable CD-R's but doesn't have much effect on recording.

[SPINSTERWUN]

Originally posted by williamconifer
Just another thought. I usually try restarting computer/windows before doing real intensive processing. Programs don't always give back their ram when they shut down. You know how Windoze is. If something doesn't work just reboot the computer.

I work in Acid3 and if I get a lot of dropouts while live monitoring I reboot and it seems to help.

jack

I agree with williamconifer and philboyd studge. try re--booting,

peace and love.

[williamconifer]

Tell me more about "End It All". Does it allow you to easily shot down programs and processes running in the backround? Where can I find it?

Thanks
Jack

[philboyd studge]

A guy at the Tascam bbs (Larry Robinson) turned me on to it. It's free software on the internet somewhere. I've had a lot of problems with Adaptec software and this newer computer running windows me, and End It All really cleans out the house. Reboot before going on the internet though cause it takes out the anti virus software too.

[barefoot]

I have a similar problem. I can only do about 5 DirectX operations in a row with Sound Forge 4.5. After that, if I try to save my file, it crashes. Oh yeah, and no matter what I do, I ALWAYS get a Dr. Watson error when I quit Sound Forge.

Any Thoughts?

barefoot