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nolane
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Hi all,
I'm fairly new to this whole recording thing (and even newer on this board) so if I ask something in the wrong place or whatever, it's not intentional...
Here's my setup:
Windows XP
Celleron 500Mhz
Sonar 1
256MB RAM
20Gig HD (5400 rpm?)
MOTU896 audio interface thru an Adaptec FireWire card
When I record 2 or 3 inputs at a time (stereo micing a guitar and doing 1 on the vocal) things are fine. However when I try to record using all 7 or 8 inputs I'm having the worst time getting usable tracks. I either get a hiccup/skipping problem at random or the sound will "pop" sometimes.
It *seemed* like the popping was only coming from tracks recorded with a direct line-in (electric guitars and bass, i ran out of mics). And the skipping was more an over-all problem. Like, every track was getting a skipping issue while they were all being written to disk at that exact point in time. Sound would just STOP for fractions of a second. (I hope that makes some sense).
I've tried playing with Read/Write caching, the Latency slider, adjusting the size and quantity of I/O buffers, and I turned OFF the unused input/output on my MOTU (it was set "on" for the ADAT input, i figured that may be using some CPU power).
I've got all the typical settings tweaked for audio performance on the machine. No antivirus software, no other programs running, virtual memory, file IO, swap files, everything is tweaked for maximum power being given to Sonar. So I don't think it's a common thing I'm missing. The drive is defragged, etc.
If anyone has ideas or suggestions, that'd be great. Thanks for the help.
I'm fairly new to this whole recording thing (and even newer on this board) so if I ask something in the wrong place or whatever, it's not intentional...
Here's my setup:
Windows XP
Celleron 500Mhz
Sonar 1
256MB RAM
20Gig HD (5400 rpm?)
MOTU896 audio interface thru an Adaptec FireWire card
When I record 2 or 3 inputs at a time (stereo micing a guitar and doing 1 on the vocal) things are fine. However when I try to record using all 7 or 8 inputs I'm having the worst time getting usable tracks. I either get a hiccup/skipping problem at random or the sound will "pop" sometimes.
It *seemed* like the popping was only coming from tracks recorded with a direct line-in (electric guitars and bass, i ran out of mics). And the skipping was more an over-all problem. Like, every track was getting a skipping issue while they were all being written to disk at that exact point in time. Sound would just STOP for fractions of a second. (I hope that makes some sense).
I've tried playing with Read/Write caching, the Latency slider, adjusting the size and quantity of I/O buffers, and I turned OFF the unused input/output on my MOTU (it was set "on" for the ADAT input, i figured that may be using some CPU power).
I've got all the typical settings tweaked for audio performance on the machine. No antivirus software, no other programs running, virtual memory, file IO, swap files, everything is tweaked for maximum power being given to Sonar. So I don't think it's a common thing I'm missing. The drive is defragged, etc.
If anyone has ideas or suggestions, that'd be great. Thanks for the help.
But if you haven't heard it... 