mcstringer413
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How to avoid audio dropouts while speed comping in Sonar Platinum 2016.03
Hi Folks,
It seems that the only time I ever get audio dropouts is when I am speed comping. It is a great workflow technique, but the dropouts happen fairly regularly & slow down the otherwise speedy process. It especially happens as soon as I hit the arrow key to go to the next clip to the right or left in the take lane. It doesn't happen when I am previewing the takes from top to bottom, but when proceeding to the next clip to the right or left. The asio buffer size is as high as it will go & the playback and record buffer sizes are both set at 500. This has been the case since Platinum, (Allston). Is there a way to fix this? Thank you for any help.
Mike
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vanceen
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Re: How to avoid audio dropouts while speed comping in Sonar Platinum 2016.03
2016/04/07 14:04:18
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I can't offer any help on this, but I've experienced it too. For me, it seems to happen more often when I have been editing for a long time. At one point I thought it was due to a large Undo buffer, but changing the size of that didn't make any difference for me.
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FastBikerBoy
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Re: How to avoid audio dropouts while speed comping in Sonar Platinum 2016.03
2016/04/07 14:07:39
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I'd experiment with your record and playback I/O buffer sizes (Prefs-->Audio--->Sync and caching). Larger isn't always better and there's no "one size fits all either".
I haven't found a better method than good 'ole trial and error which is well worth the effort. You only have to do it once and then it's done until you change systems.
It's all to do with data fed to Sonar from the HD. If it needs to wait for too long it'll fall over, if it empties the buffer too quickly, same result hence it's a bit of a balancing act.
HTH
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Keith Albright [Cakewalk]
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Re: How to avoid audio dropouts while speed comping in Sonar Platinum 2016.03
2016/04/07 18:18:56
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The thing to see if if just clicking the now time around causes the same dropout.
If so, then it could be a disk bound issue. Upgrading to a faster drive, or defragmenting the one you have might help, especially if it is getting low on free space.
Keith
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Keith Albright [Cakewalk]
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Re: How to avoid audio dropouts while speed comping in Sonar Platinum 2016.03
2016/04/07 18:18:56
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The thing to see if if just clicking the now time around causes the same dropout.
If so, then it could be a disk bound issue. Upgrading to a faster drive, or defragmenting the one you have might help, especially if it is getting low on free space.
Keith
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mcstringer413
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Re: How to avoid audio dropouts while speed comping in Sonar Platinum 2016.03
2016/04/07 18:38:46
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FastBikerBoy
I'd experiment with your record and playback I/O buffer sizes (Prefs-->Audio--->Sync and caching). Larger isn't always better and there's no "one size fits all either".
I haven't found a better method than good 'ole trial and error which is well worth the effort. You only have to do it once and then it's done until you change systems.
It's all to do with data fed to Sonar from the HD. If it needs to wait for too long it'll fall over, if it empties the buffer too quickly, same result hence it's a bit of a balancing act.
HTH
I will experiment with buffer sizes and see what happens. Keith Albright [Cakewalk]
The thing to see if if just clicking the now time around causes the same dropout.
If so, then it could be a disk bound issue. Upgrading to a faster drive, or defragmenting the one you have might help, especially if it is getting low on free space.
Keith
Keith, I haven't had any dropouts at all while clicking the Now time around for a while. The drive is a 1TB drive and I have 475mb free, so that shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the responses, guys! Mike
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