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farewellending
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I'm getting some drop out on 15 tracks. I have sonar 3 and I'm using a decent amount of the Waves Plug-ins. I'm running at 7200 rpms, 2.2 gHz, 1 GB ram. What will help this?
I believe this only has an effect if you have disk caching turned on. Cakewalk recommends leaving this off, unless you have an older system with drives that do not use DMA transfer.Drewdt3 said:I was talking about raising the file system buffer not the buffer in the asio panel, it worked for me and now everything is fine. Might be worth a try you can always put it back to where it was.
File System
Enable Read Caching and Enable Write Caching--Choosing either of these options lets SONAR use the Windows disk cache while reading or writing audio data. SONAR will usually perform best with all caching disabled, which is the default setting. If your computer has an older IDE disk controller, or a disk controller that does not use DMA transfers, enabling caching may improve SONAR's audio performance. Note: Changes to these settings only take effect when you restart SONAR.
I/O Buffer Size--This value determines the buffer characteristics for transfers to and from the disk. Changing this value does not affect audio latency, but will affect the disk throughput for audio tracks. The default setting is 128. If you have audio problems, try 64 and then 32. If audio problems persist, try 16, 256, 512, or reset to 128 and try a different remedy.
Drewdt3 said:DACHAY2TNR
You've perhaps got more experience than I have with this software, but I can catagorically assure you that when I moved the buffer to 512, the percentage load went down to about 20 from 35-100 dropout before I moved it. To make sure that it wasn't coincidence I moved it back again and it started dropping out again. Try it, you'll be amazed.