audio disk is full

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I've removed aud.ini from the cakewalk directory and made certain that the computer's date and time are current, yet i can't record for more than 10 seconds without a drop out. The project i'm doing now was dumped into the computer from 8-track analog well after sonar was reinstalled.

I've done everything that makes sense.. all i can think is that a program or virus is for some reason spiking the resources.. buffer settings are all in check.. we desperately need to finish this project as we have to have promo copies out to where we're playing on a tour 6 weeks in advance.. thanks much

matthew m
and gertie fox
 
What sound card? What driver mode are you using in Sonar, MME, WDM or ASIO? Have you updated the drivers for your audio card to the latest revision?

Q.
 
MOTU MKII 2408 pci-324
WDM drivers

haven't updated the drivers...

ok.. checked the site and they're not very new... i definitely have the newest drivers
 
i just wanted to get this post back to the top... i'm dying over here

i can run one song but not record with full on plugins and can't record guitar for a song with 9 tracks and no effects so far...

only certain songs gave me trouble today too... this is odd and very untimely as we have to get this record done asap. any insight would be greatly appreciated

playback all night with plug ins
some recording, but drop outs at seemingly random times
more than enough hard drive space
and some songs i was able to record the whole song through after it dropping out once.. it seems very random the buffer values were changed in every way...
 
Can you tell something about your pc? Like the OS, are you using it for other programs besides recording, virus checked, defragged, disk cleanup in the tools menu, .tmp files?

I have to defrag after a project cause XP writes files everywhere there`s an open space.
 
pentium IV 2.4
512 ram
XP OS
I defragged today and although i suspect no virus as i've cut the computer off the internet, i will run a virus scan after my gig tonight.

I've exhausted all i know and all suggestions. as i said, playback is ok and recording isn't no matter what the buffer setting

i'm running WDM drivers for motu PCI-324 connected to 2408 MK-II

I was thinking virus causing the spike or that the sector that the audio was written to was bad for some reason but that leaves that it will play back and much hope for recovery... anything else??
 
The chances of this being virus related are slim.

Given that this is time-critical you are best served contacting support as soon as possible.

Q.
 
SilentSound said:
I've exhausted all i know and all suggestions. as i said, playback is ok and recording isn't no matter what the buffer setting

i'm running WDM drivers for motu PCI-324 connected to 2408 MK-II
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So you tried running Wave Profiler with no success?

Porter
 
i ran the profiler my lunchbreak today will consist of me driving home to work on it.. i may change slots... reinstall software.. anything

any other suggestions before i rip it apart?

thanks for the help thus far
 
Has the problem always existed? Or did this crop up recently? Any changes that you made that could be timed to when the problems started?

I would at least try reinstalling Sonar before going much further.

BTW, if you deleted the aud.ini file, Sonar should have automatically prompted you to run the wave profiler the next time you started it up.
 
sonar did prompt that after deleting the file.. i've deleted it then immediately gone back into the new ini that cakewalk made and only changed the audio source... nothing else

the first time i did it though it dropped out once, then i could record easily a whole song. i've changed nothing prior to this problem. I dumped 8 tracks at a time onto the computer with no problem days prior...
 
I'm not calling you stupid, but can you check that the audio disk isn't full?

Particularly if you have multiple partitions, if you deleted the AUD.INI file, then Sonar will be defaulting back to C:\Cakewalk Projects\Audio Data to hold it's files.

If you had an audio drive defined on another partition, this may be the cause.

Call Cakewalk's support - they are really good.

Q.
 
I guarantee it's not full... nor is it partitioned. I know what went on this computer.. i didn't take that as a patronization. all angles have to be looked at to solve this problem.. since i have no time for that anymore, upon your suggestion i'm calling cakewalk's support

that is if the version is registered.. if not, i still welcome all suggestions
 
if anyone is still reading...
i disabled/enabled the built in sound card, realized that my room mate had a few bios settings incorrectly set, reinstalled the motu 324 driver, and deleted the aud.ini file i was then able to, in two takes, record the song i needed to record. every other song on the computer is working just fine.

the anomaly is that in the song that started this mess, i can't use the waves RCL compressor. As soon as that compressor is in the effects chain for a track, the song won't even play immediate drop out.... other plug ins, compressors, verbs, EQs all work
 
SilentSound said:
the anomaly is that in the song that started this mess, i can't use the waves RCL compressor. As soon as that compressor is in the effects chain for a track, the song won't even play immediate drop out.... other plug ins, compressors, verbs, EQs all work
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Hurrah!

Are you sure that in the example above the RCL compressor isn't tipping your resource load over the edge?

Does increasing your latency make it work?

Q.
 
it's a song with 8 tracks on a stripped down 2.4 gig with a gig of ram.. definitely not taxing the resources.

on an interesting side note, after doing everything i did and before recording for the first time and having it work, i moved the guitar amp further away from the computer.. who knows thanks for all the help

mm
 
I've been having some trouble with some files I have migrated from 2.2 through 3.0, the initial patch, some other patch and now finally 3.1.1.

It seems that there is some sort of corruption creeping into the "multi-version" files.

The only thing that I have found to sort it out is the select all, copy and paste into a new track, or if you utilising a dummy bus to handle the additional effects load. Weird, but it worked for me.

Q.
 
dumb but releated question

When you say "is audio disc full" . are you refering to the hard drive the audio is saved to? Example, on my computer it is on F drive, a 160 gig hard drive. Jim
 
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