2 New issues with X1 Essentials.
Hey all, new guy here!
Well, I've been using X1 Essentials for some home recording for the past 2 months or so. I made a few minor hardware changes....added a 2nd drive for media, did a better job on cable management, blew the dust out of the fans. Now whenever I hit the record button on a new project, it takes at least 1-2 secs before it starts recording, and for some reason, the metronome comes on for just that second or two right before the recording begins...even with the metronome turned off. Prior to this it would record immediately, response to the keyboard/mouse was excellent.
Secondly, I'm getting some horrid distortion/lagging/darth vader sounding playback whenever I get 30secs or so into whatever I've recorded. I'm only recording acoustic instruments with minimal effects, and it is doing this with as little as 2 tracks. I'm using MMS drivers for this, and up until recently have had no issues whatsoever, so something has changed. I've messed with the latency's/buffers in "preferences", however, as I'm still learning, still trying to figure all of this out. Thanks for any advice,
Here is my rig
Gigabyte 880g-ud2h motherboard (using Realtek onboard audio)
Phenom x4 965 at 4ghz
8 gigs of ram,
windows 7 64 bit
7200 Rpm 500 HD(running the program from this drive)
5900 Rpm 1Gb HD(destination drive for all the files for Sonar, ***Even when I switched this back to the main C: drive, still had the same issues*)