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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:05:42 (permalink)
I would not worry about satisfying the Sycon DPC Latency Checker, the tool is not designed for Windows 8, from http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml :
The DPC latency utility runs on Windows 8 but does not show correct values
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:20:20 (permalink)
Oh ok! My bad, I should've paid a little more attention to the details of that program. So since I've been able to successfully record under the conditions I mentioned before, does it sound like I'm done tweaking things? When I record overdubs, will Sonar account for the buffer settings or will I see a large lag in between takes? Sorry if that's a silly question :P
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:29:26 (permalink)
The disk buffers will not be a problem. If you try to record MIDI or audio monitoring through the DAW, unless the total round trip latency reported in SONAR at the bottom of the Preferences > Audio > Driver Settings is less then 10msec, there will be issues. If you do not monitor through the DAW, higher latency will not be a problem while recording. I believe the real problem is going to be the 5400RPM drive but that is a completely different problem.
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:31:36 (permalink)
I'll be monitoring directly through the Focusrite's routing system to avoid DAW monitoring problems.
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:35:27 (permalink)
Monitoring problem solved.
 
The biggest improvement would be replacing the slow HD and, if possible, remove the optical drive and add a second internal HD in the optical drive slot.
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:37:33 (permalink)
Are there some particular components you would recommend for possible future use?
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:48:31 (permalink)
Hardware is not my strength. Discussing the hardware of the future is worse. It may be a single SSD replacing the existing system drive will be enough or, you may find a USB3 connected drive may be all you need. With traditional spinning disks getting the projects (and their audio) off the system drive is important. With an SSD not so much.
 
For now, maybe this thread should be marked solved.
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/21 22:54:07 (permalink)
I would say so! So thank you so very much for all of the help, everybody! Rock on!
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/22 16:05:19 (permalink)
Anderton
 
Great explanation. Do you have any idea whether running a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp would perform better that an off-the-shelf Windows laptop of comparable cost?



Hi Craig,
 
I don't have the latest generation MacBook Pro...
But I do have a MBP that's a couple of generations old (CPU runs at 2.4GHz).
When running BootCamp/Windows, it certainly performs better than any off-the-shelf laptop that I've seen.
I used it on many gigs... running soft-synths hosted by Forte.  Always worked fine.
The only issue with BootCamp is that it's (now) not officially supported by Cakewalk.
 
With what I do for a living, I really wanted to push the performance envelope... so I built a mini-ITX machine that blew the MBP's doors off.  Quad-core (8 processing threads) that runs at 4500MHz.  Haven't used a laptop since.  
The mini-ITX machine fits in a padded/rolling case (similar to suit-case)... along with small monitor and mini wireless keyboard w/glide-point.  Boots from a SSD and disk-streams samples from SSD.
None of the issues/limitations of a laptop... and fully up-gradable... just like a tower/rack.
Gives you the power to run super dense splits/layers of the best soft-synths and sample libraries

Best Regards,

Jim Roseberry
jim@studiocat.com
www.studiocat.com
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Re: Dropouts in Sonar X3 2014/05/22 21:52:19 (permalink)
UPDATE: The dropout problem reappeared, so I changed both buffers in Sonar's Sync and Caching to 2048.
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