recording problem in cw 901

[lukgier]

hi
I don'w know why but sometimes (very often) when during the recording audio in cw 901 appears a note that i do not have enough space on my hdd even though there is over one gig there. it doesn't happen always but very often and really gets me down 'cause when i start to rec it again it seems to be ok till the next problems in a few minutes when it comes again.
what is wrong with it?
i use sb live!
does anybody have problems in cw 90 with aardvark pro apart from obvious ones?
thanks
lukgier

[monty]

Is your hard drive partitioned? Maybe the partition Cakewalk is using is almost full?

[lukgier]

thanks for reply but unfortunately even though my hdd is partitioned the wav files are stored on c:\ where there is over 1 gig free. if it were for the free capacity of the drive it would happen every time i record but it happens from time to time.
once i record it appears then i stop it and rec again with success.
I have no idea what it might be?
lukgier

[Lambo]

How much RAM do you have? I had the same problem with drop-out (missing notes or completely stopping during record/play-back) until I increased the RAM to 256MB. Some people have had success with 128MB but I wasn't one of them.

[lukgier]

yes that's right i am one of those who own just 128 ram. you may be right saying that it isn't enough. but why it desn't happen always but from time to time. once it drops once it is ok.
is it possible to sync recording my midis in cakewalk with other program to rec the audio.
maybe i should export cw files to midi and try to record audio in cubase vst?
what will you suggest?
thanks
lukgier

[AlChuck]

lukgier,

How many audio tracks are there? Are you using lots of plug-ins? Maybe you've pushed a bit beyond what you PC can handle. 128 MB should be fine unless you've allocated half of it to the SB Live's Sound Font cache.

Another possibility -- are there other applications running? FindFast, for example, or a background antivirus program, or are you logged on to a network? Other applications in the background can certainly interrupt the data flow while recording.

Hope that helps...

-AlChuck

[lukgier]

Hi
I have gigasampler 160 run with gigapiano and some drum kits samples. it takes a lot of my ram i think. I don't have any audio files in the projects nor plugs.
what about sb sound font. I thought that sb needs this ram for midi fonts. does it go with audio files? should i increase the amount to 64 mb? i don't have any other progs - i try to keep system max free,
thanks
lukgier