Hesitations

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I think I've seen this thread before but can't find. When I do a playback in Sonar 5 I sometimes get hestiation of sound. The time bar is still in motion but a second of silence will occur. More annoying is when this happens while recording. Any ideas. Thanks :confused:
 
Does the audio start abruptly or does it start as if it were playing from the beginning?
 
It will just hesitate and split second or two and than continue from where it is.
 
Sounds like you have too many plugins running at the same time.
 
Its at 34%. I have 13 tracks going. 5 Guitar tracks with Amplitube. 2 Vocals with no plug-in (yet). And Mach Five doing Bass and Harmonica sounds. BFD for drums. Does'nt seem like a lot overall.
 
It sounds like a lot to me, unless you have a super-duper computer!

If you haven't done so already, there are some tweaks you can do to make your operating system less hungry for CPU cycles and hard drive access. The principle is to turn off what you don't need while you're doing music.
 
Yeah, you have quite a bit going on that one project in the way of soft-synth style plugs.

I wouldn't worry about the minor pause you're having before playback.
 
I thought things would be good untill you got up to about 70 CPU usage. I have 80 gigs of space (50 still available) and 1 gig of ram. Maybe I need more ram power or is that considered good?
 
Albertm said:
I thought things would be good untill you got up to about 70 CPU usage. I have 80 gigs of space (50 still available) and 1 gig of ram. Maybe I need more ram power or is that considered good?
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1 gig of ram is pretty good...but then again, you're running a lot of stuff on that project. I would venture to say that you would see marked improvement if you added some more ram. I have 2 gigs in mine and I've never had a problem. *knocks on wood*

Also, do you have all your BFD samples on the same drive as your OS? Is your audio being recorded to the same drive as your OS?

All the stuff that you're using may not seem like a lot....but it is. :D All that stuff is pretty hungry as far as CPU/Memory goes.

You might try running BFD in 16 bit mode while you mix and see if that makes things better. There are also some settings that you can play around with in BFD that will load less/more to ram.
 
I had the same problem with mine recording one track with no other tracks and no plug-ins. I had to start the click track a measure into the song otherwise the click track would be off. And my computer is pretty high-end so it wasn't a hardware issue, but I never did figure out how to get rid of it. I've since reformatted and don't have the problem anymore, and my latency is a fraction of was it used to be. Went from 10-15ms to 1.5ms. Don't know how that works out. Good luck!
 
Hmm... tell us about your computer. I use far more than that with no problems.
 
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