Audio Problems - latency - I'm not sure what's up?

I'm using Sonar 3.1.1 - my sound card is an emu-1212 - I used a digitech asio driver.
 
I am having all kinds of problems. I'm having problems recording on a treack where I have just one audio track as the master - and one track armed to record a simple guitar. I've always kept my latency at 10 - now I get all kinds of echoey (that's the best I can describe it) sounds coming from the tracks at that latency - and I get a drop out at every few seconds. I move the latency up to 200 - the track plays and sounds good - but it drops out after about 10 or 20 seconds.
 
I use BFD2 - I can get BFD to load up -but BFD is also very echoey.
 
When I load up Sonar - it's strange - my whole system slows down - my mouse is slow - everything is slow.
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks in advance.

Sorry, I'm wrong about that, I'm actually using the emu asio drivers.

I'm using Windows XP - Home Edition - Version 2002 - Service Pack 2.

I've got a 232 gig hard drive - I've got 106 gigs free.

Up until about two weeks ago I could easily set the latency at 6 - I just always kept it at 10 - never had a problem - then all of a sudden - when I was recording a track I keep getting dropouts. The CPU usage is way up there - 75% to 80%.

It takes forever to open a Sonar project - once one is open - my entire system slows down.

Thanks again in advance for any help.

mholmes


This sounds like it could be a hardware problem. Some things I'd do:

- Defrag the HD
- Run Spinrite on the HD to see if it's got problems
- Check the RAM
- Reseat things on the MOBO (audio card, RAM, etc.)

Cheers,
Martin


Also scan your drive for viruses

CLEAN


I'm using Windows XP - Home Edition - Version 2002 - Service Pack 2.

I've got a 232 gig hard drive - I've got 106 gigs free.

Up until about two weeks ago I could easily set the latency at 6 - I just always kept it at 10 - never had a problem - then all of a sudden - when I was recording a track I keep getting dropouts. The CPU usage is way up there - 75% to 80%.

It takes forever to open a Sonar project - once one is open - my entire system slows down.

Thanks again in advance for any help.

This could be your first problem......

Have you only one hard drive ?

You should have at least 2 drives for audio recording and they should be runing at at least 72000

One drive for OS and programs(SONAR) and one drive To record your audio on to nothing else.

That would be the first thing I can think of if you only have one hard drive then that could be your main problem.

Have you ran a DPC Latency checker yet ? http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

Instal and run the DPC if you havent already and see what it shows up it could be something in your system causeing Cpu Spikes and may be a case of finding what one it is fo rinstance Lan cards etc....

If you have a lan card in your computer it could be causeing latency as windows wil search for things in the back ground

It could be 1001 different reasons for the drop outs and I know how you are feeling its frustrateing

Let me know about the hard drives and your DPC findings and I will try and help :)

Norrie