Dropouts in Playback

[BrettMckinney]

I've just given Cool Edit a pro..being a Sonar man for a while now. I'm having probs already though. I've only got like 3 tracks and it plays for about 10secs and dropouts. There are no effects on the tracks either. I have a fast computer, lots of ram and a Audiophile sound card. Any hints on how to get it to actually playback?

Cheers

 

[Tukkis]

Is it dropping out or skipping or lagging when your press play?

In Multitrack Go to VIEW-->SHOW LOAD METER and see if it's very high.

It could be a hardware conflict. You dont wanna have any of your main hardware (eg.soundcard,cd-rom,videocard) sharing IRQ's with each other or other hardware. They need to have their own IRQ as they need all the bandwidth possible.

Is it dropping out in SONAR?

Tukkis

 

[BrettMckinney]

Thanks for the tips man...i figured it out! I am a newb! I discovered the 'play to end' button..i was just pushing play and i think it only went to a marker or something...now it goes all the time. All good. A few things to get used to in comparison to Sonar though