Playback starts to Shutter

[justadrummer]

After a while of using my computer, My audio playback starts to shutter a bit. Im using a 1.4 ghz laptop with 2g of ram, two firepods hooked up by firewire. Am I overloading my computer? How can i set things up to be more stable?

 

[Erockrazor]

This can be attributed to your playback engines buffer settings. If you INCREASE your playback buffer size, you should have better luck with more processes at one time. If you DECREASE your buffer, you will have improved monitoring latency. It may be common to decrease for tracking and increase for playback and editing.

Additionally you could:
Make sure your audio program is the only thing hogging CPU. Turn of other Programs.
Record on an external harddrive.
Defragment your harddrives.
Amongst other things that arent flowing off the top of my head!

Hope that helps solve your problem. Good luck, Eric.

 

[Chili]

Another thing that will affect playback is how many tracks and plugs you're running. Firepod is 10 tracks(?) and you've got two of them. That might be putting a strain on a 1.4ghz cpu. Also what sampling rate you're running will affect performance.

If this is a laptop and you have only 1 physical hard drive, that'll slow you down also as the DAW has to compete with the O/S for head-time on the drive.

As ERock said, shutdown whatever other apps you're not using. Disconnect the computer from the internet if you need to.

Hope this helps.

 

[Erockrazor]

Another thing that will affect playback is how many tracks and plugs you're running. Firepod is 10 tracks(?) and you've got two of them. That might be putting a strain on a 1.4ghz cpu. Also what sampling rate you're running will affect performance.

Very good point!