Massive Latencey/Stuttering on Record

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Let me first start off with my system specs, so you have an idea of what I have to work with:
Processor: PIII 1.0GHz
RAM: 512MB PC-100 SDRAM
Interface: Delta 44
Latencey is set to 64 Samples under "DMA Buffer Size" in the Delta Control Panel.

I'm using Adobe Audition 1.0 to record into.

Here's the problem. I have 9 tracks of audio recorded, but I want to re-record one of those tracks. So I removed the track I wished to re-do, and armed the track, and hit RECORD. All goes well...for about, 10 seconds, then it starts to skip and stutter like crazy! I muted ALL of the tracks except for one of the guitar tracks, thinking it might fix it, but Nope! Still stuttering on the playback as I'm recording.

I'm pretty new to this stuff, so maybe I'm misunderstanding latencey, but, it's set to the lowest amount in the Delta Control Panel -- which I thought would be best.

Any ideas?
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ya sounds very frustrating... i'm not sure why it would do that. Do you know what type of drivers are being used? for example i have heard that ASIO and WDM result in less latency issues than MME drivers but i don't have much experience with ASIO so i cannot say for sure.

What type of a recording are you doing? guitar piece? vocals?

If it is something like that, one thing you could try is to open a new session in cool edit and import one or two tracks from your old session to give you a timing and playing source. Record your track from the one or two you imported. Then open your old session and import that new track you made. I do this sometimes and it works ok. The only hard part is lining your newly recorded track up with the rest of the tracks. It can be done though, just make sure you are zoomed in well so that you can move the track very slightly.
 
Thanks, minofifa!
I'm just recording some tambourine and shaker tracks to add to a song.
I'm pretty sure they are MME drivers, I'll check that out...
 
Well I was watching the CPU load while playing back the 9 track song...
When it was stopped and Audition was open, the CPU load was at 1%-2%.
When I started playback, it gradually increased to 100%, and when it got into the mid-90's, that's when it started to skip and stutter.
So, now I know it's not memory, but I need a faster CPU!

BUT...could it be the program? If I switched to Cakewalk Sonar or HomeStudio, or Cubase or soemthing other than Audition, what are the chances that my CPU load will go down?

I've heard people say that they run 24-tracks on a laptop running at 750MHz -- I'm at 1.0GHz, and it's still skipping! :(

Thanks guys.
 
Drummer4, I think it could be the program that is using a lot of cpu power and ram. Don´t know too much about Adobe Audition, but I´m almost sure that the whole line of products from that brand requires a lot of resources. You could try using another software.

TS
 
Thanks Tama. I'm starting to look into that as well.
I downloaded an old version of Cool Edit Pro [which is basically Adobe Audition], and I still had the same stuttering problems.
I'm going to try some Cakewalk stuff now -- maybe I can get an old version of Sonar off eBay for cheap or something.

It seems that the problem is CPU, not memory. So now I need a new PC! GREAT!

- Justin -
 
Drummer4Life05 said:
I'm pretty new to this stuff, so maybe I'm misunderstanding latencey, but, it's set to the lowest amount in the Delta Control Panel -- which I thought would be best.

Any ideas?
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Low latency is the best; however it is also the most taxing on your system. Therefore latency needs to be set as low as possible without affecting the system performance - as yours apparently is.

64 samples is pretty low. Try raising the latency setting. That should improve things.

Ultimately, latency is pretty much a non-issue unless you are trying to do specific things with your recording software, such as input monitoring through your software, or recording using DXi synths, etc.

If you are simply recording live audio, and not using input monitoring, I would suggest you set the latency quite high. You'll never even notice the difference except when you try and tweak a knob and it takes a couple hundred milliseconds to respond.
 
dachay2tnr - Sweet. Thanks a lot for the tip. I never really understood what latency was about. I'll mess with that later and get back to ya!

- Justin -
 
ya i agree with dachay. When i have my tracks recorded in cool edit and i screw around with the various knobs and whatnot, it takes a few hundred milliseconds for the comp to responds but it is still totally usable. if you must direct monitor your shit, you could get an interface that allows for that. for example my tascam has a direct monitor function built into it so it does not affect the computer usage at all, a very cool feature. I tried using direct monitoring with sonar a while back and it was hideous, worst experience ever! again using the right drivers helps a lot. also do you lock the tracks that you use in cool edit? that saves defintate cpu power as well.
 
Well, the playback is a little better, I'm using the stock soundcard for that. So changing the latency was really stupid of me to consider, because if I change the latency settings on the Delta, it's not going to affect the playback!
So, when I record, it still stutters and skips and goes crazy. I changed the latency setting a few times -- one time it restarted my computer, one time it caused Audition to shut down on its own...weird...

Is there a setting in Audition I could be missing that's throwing everything crazy?

Thanks,
Justin
 
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