ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning?

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2015/03/13 06:40:12 (permalink)

ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning?

Hope someone can help with this.
 
In X3e I have a new project. It has 14 audio tracks and NO plugins, completely raw.
 
I was muting the guitar track and listening to the bass in relation to the kick and snare for timing issues.
 
This required me to stop and restart the audio engine to here the specific part I was interested in.
 
I did NOT create a loop for this.
 
After about three repeats the audio engine quite and I got the dreaded "drop out" warning in my lower right corner.
 
This happened three times and then I stopped reviewing it.
 
What is up. I don't have any plug ins running, and no soft synths or anything, just basic audio tracks for drums, bass and guitar.
 
Thanks.

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    brundlefly
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    Re: ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning? 2015/03/13 15:09:33 (permalink)
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    Is the project audio on one of those external drives? Watch the drive icon in SONAR's performance monitor while you're doing this; if it flashes red, you either need to increase your playback disk buffer in Audio > Sync and Caching preferences or move the project/audio to a faster internal drive.
     
     

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    Re: ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning? 2015/03/13 15:10:42 (permalink)
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    Re: ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning? 2015/03/13 16:24:26 (permalink)
    disk fragmentation is worth checking.  Defrag of the drive the project audio is on might help

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    Re: ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning? 2015/03/13 18:17:41 (permalink)
    You can also try bumping up your disk I/O buffer to 512KB on each. It is in Audio->Sync and Caching in prefs (advanced mode)

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    Re: ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning? 2015/03/14 00:00:17 (permalink)
    TremoJem
    Hope someone can help with this.

    In X3e I have a new project. It has 14 audio tracks and NO plugins, completely raw.

    I was muting the guitar track and listening to the bass in relation to the kick and snare for timing issues.

    This required me to stop and restart the audio engine to here the specific part I was interested in.

    I did NOT create a loop for this.

    After about three repeats the audio engine quite and I got the dreaded "drop out" warning in my lower right corner.

    This happened three times and then I stopped reviewing it.

    What is up. I don't have any plug ins running, and no soft synths or anything, just basic audio tracks for drums, bass and guitar.

    Thanks.

    Why do you have to start and stop the audio engine? Do you mean you are using the audio engine button in the transport control bar? Just press stop or use the space bar

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    Re: ASIO/Disk Buffering Tuning? 2015/03/15 11:09:13 (permalink)
    I am using the start/stop and not the audio engine.

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