laptop recording problems PLEASE HELP!

[the froot]

help me again PLEEEEEEASE!

i dont know if this will help with anyone giving me an answer, but when the program is choppy and stuttering, it also freezes up at times and wont let me stop the tracks in play for about 10 - 20 seconds. could this be related to a sound card problem as well? i mean im running a pentium 4 2.4 ghz 100 gigs of memory (which is barley even touched) , and a gig of ram. thats twice what my desktop has which runs audition great! so anyway the question again: can a crappy soundcard cause a program to freeze and not respond? i know that better souncards have better converters and was wondering if that was the problem?

 

[Bulls Hit]

What sort of drivers are you using? Can you choose asio?

You need to add more buffers

 

[Dracon]

Perhaps it's a sign that you should go get a real job.

Perhaps you need to change your username to Jackass, 'cause you're not doing justice to your username!


Hey Froot:
If you have 1GB of RAM, 100GB of Storage and a 2.4Ghz you should ideally be fine. You originally posted that you had an internal Hard Drive (HD) at 20GB then you got a firewire HD at 7200 (unknown space), and now you have a 100GB internal HD?

I'm guessing you are trying to record through your factory soundcard? I don't have much exposure to Laptop soundcards, but I'm guessing that if you are trying to record 10tracks or more (which I'm not exactly sure its even possible through your soundcard) it will not be able to handle that much information.

If you are trying to playback, it may be the latency (which I'm not sure is adjustable on the factory installe soundcard), or the buffer size. However, you say it only starts happening after 10+ tracks?

Try this!
Do Ctrl, Alt, Delte and select the Processes tab in your Windows Task Manager. Then click on the top of Mem Usage (it will sort from low to high memory usage). Look at what is your highest memory user before you run the application (probably will be iexplorer.exe with your username), and your second highest. Anonate this information on a piece of paper.
Then click on the top of CPU Time and see what are you top four CPU hogs (System Idle Process will be your highest).

Then run the application with two tracks, and look at the same as above, do the same with four track, and six, and then eight. See what happens.
Annotate the amount of memory, and the amount of CPU time that the application eats each time.
Oh, I almost forgot. When you open the application make sure you annotate the process name, and keep checking how much memory and CPU it keeps eating. Also keep checking to see if the system idle process keeps going up.
Let me know what you come up with. This won't fix the problem but it will help in assessing the problem.

 

[arjoll]

i dont know if this will help with anyone giving me an answer, but when the program is choppy and stuttering, it also freezes up at times and wont let me stop the tracks in play for about 10 - 20 seconds. could this be related to a sound card problem as well? i mean im running a pentium 4 2.4 ghz 100 gigs of memory (which is barley even touched) , and a gig of ram. thats twice what my desktop has which runs audition great! so anyway the question again: can a crappy soundcard cause a program to freeze and not respond? i know that better souncards have better converters and was wondering if that was the problem?

What brand/model of laptop do you have, and what else is running on the system (AV etc)? I would be surprised if the soundcard alone gave this kind of problem - the built-in thing in my HP nx7010 is rubbish but can play 10+ tracks fine (forget recording with it though - that's what I use a Tascam US122 for!).

Cya
Andrew

 

[the froot]

ok folks im bringing an end to this thread. and this will be my last post in the "cool edit" forum. i figured out my problem.......adobe audition sucks! i switched to cubase and everything runs like a charm ive got it up to running 32 tracks with absolutley no problems at all. so maybe ill see some of you over in the cubase forum. thanks for everyones help though it was greatly appreciated.