Defragging?

[napoli187]

hoping someone can help with this prob. i am using cubase sl with my apple g4 powerbook and the program starts skipping/stuttering after recording for about 15 minutes (this includes starting and stopping and recording over tracks). this ruins the recordings and makes me have to shutdown the computer, let it wait for a while, then try again. sometimes it works good after this, but then will begin stuttering again.

i assume it's probably a computer problem, maybe i need to defragment my hard drive? if so, anyone know how to do it on the mac? i'm pretty sure my computer has enough power to do recording.

any other help or suggestions is appreciated!

 

[BloodShark]

Defrag won't help much, it'll just re-arrange the files on your HD. You may have a better permonce after defrag, but it won't solve your problem. I suggest you to format your HD and re-install everything.

If format doesn't help you should check if your HD is ok. Maybe the disk is not good.

 

[jazzrich9]

Hi.

What other programs do you have running... how much ram do you have... it sounds like your having a memory swapping problem... one of the things that will screw you up is little pieces of adware and other memory resident programs, that eat up your memory real quick.

If you're not sure, try downloading and running spysweeper or something similar.

if you haven't formatted in a while, then its always a good idea... kind of like blood letting, but I disagree that defragging won't help, especially in a pre XP situation, as your HD swap file can have fragments, and will diminish exponentially.

IF you have XP, it's not as big a deal, as there is slightly better Disk managment built in.

Let me know what you come up with.

Cheers.

Rich
Radium Reactor

 

[JuSumPilgrim]

Screw around with the buffer sizes and no. of buffers. You should have more than enough power there to do basic recording.

 

[napoli187]

which way should the buffer size go? up or down? should i increase the number of buffers from 4, or lower them?

 

[sonicpaint]

In most cases.

In most cases the default setting of buffers and such will do fine, so IMHO I don't think that's the problem. If your sessions are huge with a lot of plug-ins and automation then I'd check your buffers but if not I'd look elsewhere.

Your on a Mac so I can't help in too much detail (I'm not a Mac user)but I'd reinstall the program and start from there. I'd also make sure your background processes are not eating up your CPU power (as mentioned) along with all your settings being set correctly with your external devices and such. Are you using a multi input sound-card? You recording midi or audio? Could it be a simple clocking problem? Trial and error, you gotta love it.

Let us know what your doing to correct the problem.

sonicpaint