HELP.. Too Many Dropouts

[iproduce]

Im recording with Cakewalk Sonar and I seem to be having alot of dropouts and its at the wrong time.. I have to get a couple of songs done for this Soundtrack.. Please help me

I Have the following

Athlon XP
1.67 Gig Processor
768 DDR Ram
80 Gig Hard drive
M-Audio Audiophile 2496
Phonic MM 1002a Mixer

Please tell me what I have to do to get my Sonar running smoothly and perfect

 

[Porter]

Two quick question:

How much space do you have on your HDD? Is it Partitioned?

Secondly, What is your latency set to?

Porter

 

[James Argo]

There goes several reasons causing dropouts Most likely, you run out of CPU usage, or HD speed. You may check the indicator in right hand bottom side of SONAR while playback. Hoe many audio plugins you run at once, eh ?

BTW, like Porter said, you may play around with Latency slider in Options --> Audio --> Mixing Latency (Buffer size) slider. Higher the value, less dropouts you'll get (but that means higher latency)


Jaymz

 

[moskus]

Maybe a driver change will do the trick. Different drivers works differently on differently systems...

You'll reach it under Options -> Audio -> Advanced


But before you do that, I would try to rise the buffer setting (DMA) in the Delta Control Panel. Remember to reprofile your card in Sonar afterwards.

 

[wfaraoni]

Not to mention a real biggie that gets overlooked a lot in windows XP turn OFF that enhanced graphics mode, Its a cpu HOG. Drove me crazy for a while.




Peace
Bill

 

[James Argo]

Not to mention a real biggie that gets overlooked a lot in windows XP turn OFF that enhanced graphics mode, Its a cpu HOG. Drove me crazy for a while.

...damn right, Bill
...and the stupid thing, is when for a while I thought of multiply effect of dual monitor...

BTW, I also use only "high resolution" (16 bit) not "best resolution" (24bit / 32bit).


Jaymz

 

[moskus]

BTW, I also use only "high resolution" (16 bit) not "best resolution" (24bit / 32bit).

If your videocard is "new" (not 4 years old), then I would set it to 32 bit, because your card is most likely optimized for it.