Well, I figured out why the sound was dropping out on my computer. Jordo had done some percussion tracks for me and, since my studio computer isn't online, I downloaded the files to my daughter's laptop and then burnt a cd. I thought I had loaded them to my daw. I edited the tracks and mixed them...the whole 9 yards. It was then my computer started acting up.
Well, yesterday I was going to mix on the song some and Burn a reference cd to play in a few systems. I pulled the cd out that had jordo percussion and got a missing file error message. It froze my computer up so bad I had to start it in the safe more....weird. the 4.percussion tracks were empty. I tried opening the song again...same thing....safe mode reboot.
Anyway, i ended up putting thr percussion files on the desktop and they work fine and the audio isn't dropping out like it was. Obviously I don't know how to load audio files into a daw.
On this particular project, I'm up to 17 tracks with various plug ins and the old threaded single core, 2 gb RAM, dinosauer computer is handling it so far.
I just hope I can do another 3 or 4 tracks. When I finish with this tune I'm going to start using my new laptop.