CW PA9.03 audio halting

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Greetings,

Recording in CW PA9.03 and having an issue with audio tracks stopping recording for no reason midway through session. In other words, set track up to record, hit record button, everything goes along fine, sometimes records the whole time, other times cuts off last 4 or so measures, other times cuts off as many as 40 measures.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Seems to be sporadic, sometimes doing it when many tracks have been recorded, other times with just a few recorded, haven't noticed that it did it when recording the very first track.

System specs (not my system, so I have to guess):

Gateway comp
P3 CPU
128MB SDRAM
Lexicon audio interface (not sure of model, but has 4 track simultaneous input)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
PhatStratPlayer said:
Greetings,

Recording in CW PA9.03 and having an issue with audio tracks stopping recording for no reason midway through session. In other words, set track up to record, hit record button, everything goes along fine, sometimes records the whole time, other times cuts off last 4 or so measures, other times cuts off as many as 40 measures.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Seems to be sporadic, sometimes doing it when many tracks have been recorded, other times with just a few recorded, haven't noticed that it did it when recording the very first track.

System specs (not my system, so I have to guess):

Gateway comp
P3 CPU
128MB SDRAM
Lexicon audio interface (not sure of model, but has 4 track simultaneous input)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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1. You need to expand you ram at least 512
2. Old Lexicon audio interfaces are full of programming bugs. Change the card too with a better one.
 
You didn't mention your CPU power (what MHz ?) and your OS, and also what's your bitrate and samplerate? I don't remember in CWPA 9.03, but I think dropouts can be caused of power instability, short of memory, HD speed, and/or soundcard's driver issue.
I suggest you may want to look for adjustment at some point like audio buffer in Tools or Options menu.

;)
Jaymz
 
Sorry, but it is not my rig. I don't know the CPU mHz, just that it's a P3. I'll find out and post back. Also running Win98SE... thought I had put that in, but I see I forgot. I will also check the sample rate. Not back in the studio till next Monday, so there will be a slight delay in getting the info.

Thanks for any help you can give.
 
James, I don't think that his problem is a DROPOUT issue, apparently it's not halting it's just stopping the recording process but the audio continues. That used to happen to me (not often, however) with Sonar 1.0 but I could never figure out why... I just did the take again and lived with it, but there should be a solution for the problem... first though, the cause should be found.

Carlos
 
Exactly. I think when you refer to dropout it is when the audio signal stops during playback. I have had this happen before but it seems to be when the system is overloaded. What Carlos is describing is what I am talking about. We have a rhythm guitar track already recorded, as well as bass, drums, etc. Then we start recording a second guitar track to add some extra color, all seems to be working fine, no error, no crash. When we finish the part and hit the stop button the track shows up but it cuts short by several measures. Sometimes one or two, usually (9 out of 10 times) 4 measures, and every once in a while 20 or 30 measures or it just doesn't record at all. We finally have gotten to the point where we keep the track recording for 20 measures or so after we are done, and then sometimes we get all that we want.

Can get pretty frustrating, especially when you are having trouble getting the take like you want it, and then the one time you do it stops recording 4 measure before you are done.

Thanks,
 
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