I am just wondering if there's anything I can do to deal with the dreaded drop outs I'm experiencing.  By dropout, I mean the program will stop dead in its tracks, and I get an error message about a drop out.  Since upgrading to Platinum, I feel that it's taxing my laptop such that it can't handle it anymore.  I find this really surprising, as this laptop is pretty good.
 
The laptop is a Toshiba with only one hard drive, and 16 GB of ram.  It's not a powerhouse by any means, but still pretty decent.  I use an external solid state Toshiba drive connected with USB 3.0.  I was able to use it successfully with X3, but with Platinum I had to put a bunch of tracks into "archive" state so that I could record a bass track.  I'm recording at 48k and 24 bit.
 
Am I dreaming thinking that I can use my laptop?  My home desktop has no (or few) problems, but it has multiple drives and 32 GB of ram.

There is a link in the Dropout TOAST to the help. Have you tried the suggestions? http://www.cakewalk.com/D...roubleshooting.21.html

I did have my ASIO buffer maxed out, but I hadn't seen the settings for Playback and Record buffers.  They were set to 256 and I've now set them to 512.  Let's see if that makes a difference.
 
Thanks!

I too am experiencing similar issues as you, but my laptop is running on Windows 7 64. I open X3e, everything is fine. Open Platinum, dropouts, unresponsive behavior, and other oddities. Don't want to hijack your thread, so I'm going to start my own. Let's keep each other posted.

I wonder if the bottleneck is with the demands being placed on the primary drive.  Can you please give an indication as to what kinds of data live on your primary drive, and on the external solid-state drive connected with USB 3.0?
 
I would also think that if you have a large number of sample-based sounds in your tracks that you could just be feeding too much streaming data from whatever drive they are on, where you wouldn't have that issue with a corresponding number of audio tracks.
 
I would imagine that freezing whatever you could would help out.
 
Bob Bone
 

I'm not using any samples at all.  These are jazz recordings with live instruments only.  Not even that many tracks either.  Probably less then 16 tracks and four or five buses.

Are you using any older 32 bit plugins? I am, and am beginning to wonder if it has anything to do with BitBridge in Platinum.

Yes, I think I use a bunch of that Nomad stuff (compressors, delays, chorus).  But probably only on two or three tracks.

pmarangoni
Yes, I think I use a bunch of that Nomad stuff (compressors, delays, chorus).  But probably only on two or three tracks.

 
I'm only using 2 line 6 plugins. Hopefully someone will chime in and help us.

In the meantime, for the next couple of tunes I'm recording drums for I'm going to use my old BOSS BR-1600 hard disc recorder.  It's bullet-proof, and then I can transfer the 16 bit wave files to my desktop computer.