Dropout Questions: main issue?

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That's funny. My 3.1.1 with a P4 3Gz won't run decently at any setting other THAN 64. Freaky.

Qwerty said:
OPTIONS-AUDIO-I/O BUFFER SIZE = Not 64!!!!

Increase to 256, 512, 128 etc., etc., until it works. I don't think it is driver latency as it is the DISK light which is blinking on and causing the drop out. Change that value and you shovel more data to Sonar.

I am running Sonar 3.1.1 with a P43GHz CPU - set at the default value of 64, Sonar is drop out city. Increasing to 512 gives me more contiguous tracks than I can be bothered testing.

I have performed no tweaks, updated all service packs, I run anti-virus and firewall software and am always connected to the internet.

Everything just works and so should your config. too, but I don't think you need to start cobbling your entire PC.

Thanks,

:) Q.
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Glad to see people actualy listen to what I mentioned few decades ago...

"Raise the buffer... the end of your suffer..."

:D :D :D


Count me in, four of us... :D
 
StevenLindsey said:
That's funny. My 3.1.1 with a P4 3Gz won't run decently at any setting other THAN 64. Freaky.
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Weird! What HD's are you spinning?

Q.
 
Qwerty said:
Weird! What HD's are you spinning?

Q.
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2 120 gb seagates. I've tried all the buffer settings and have to keep coming back to 64. I still don't know the relationships among the buffer settings in my FW-1884, the buffer settings in Sonar, the number of buffers in Sonar and the slider in Sonar, but the only place my setup will work consistently is with the buffers in the 1884 and Sonar at 64, # of buffers at 3. I can work the slider there at any setting from 2.9 on up. I've been recording at 5.8 and mixing at 8.7. I found that I can't scrub at 5.8..just get distortion, at 8.7 it scrubs fine. My system has been so finicky, I really don't want to change it anymore. Everytime I do a tweak, it changes how the thing works, so I think I'm good to go for now. I've got a hardware profile set up for recording that's stripped of just about everything. All I have to do is turn off the system restore and go.
 
OK - I thought we were on some speed vector with this, but obviously not.

Anyway, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!

:D Q.
 
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