chuckebaby
have you tried your buffers in queue ?
try lowering them from 256 to 128.
 
cheers man.

Chuck, that is way way way too high. Your Q buffer needs to be at 2. this is why the poster is probably getting a delay. 


As i said in my othe rpost above, the buffer in Q needs to be set at 2. Anything higher than 2 can and will cause a playback delay!!!!
 
CJ



 

I think OP has abandoned us.
 
And my earlier point about the system was he mentioned that he was getting the delay, which I'm assuming was noticeable thus the thread, even on a single track and that he was not experiencing this problem on his old system which would likely be less powerful. With that info and the fact that aside from when my hard drive takes a snooze I have never noticed any significant delay between hitting the spacebar and actual playback even with some heavy duty plugs across multiple tracks. It's a new system so it does really make me think that there may be some HDD optimization that needs to be done. Maybe he's using those Green drives or something.
 
Without a followup though there is just no way to know. Not saying it isn't buffer stuff but it just doesn't make sense to me that he'd get a noticeable lag when in my experience Sonar just gets up and goes. Technically his Quad Capture should have much lower latency than my Focusrite box too.
 
Meh. Just sayin'.
 
Cheers.

CJaysMusic

chuckebaby
have you tried your buffers in queue ?
try lowering them from 256 to 128.
 
cheers man.

Chuck, that is way way way too high. Your Q buffer needs to be at 2. this is why the poster is probably getting a delay. 


As i said in my othe rpost above, the buffer in Q needs to be set at 2. Anything higher than 2 can and will cause a playback delay!!!!
 
CJ



 

you are correct I was referring to file I/O.
and even that I believe is 128 as the default (adding positive increments of 128 is usually recommended if im correct ?)
 
I give up :)

jb101
Are you sure?  I would have thought setting Buffers in Queue to 128 would increase latency. My Buffers in Playback Queue is set to 2.
 
Buffer size varies from system to system.  Just try lowering them as far as they'll go when tracking to reduce latency.  You can always raise them when mixing, as latency is no longer an issue.
 
Has anything else changed since your old system?

This is great advice and it's something I always do on my system, and it's no slouch by any means

So, this is a stretch >> under preferences > files > are you writing 24 bit files or 32?

Glad you got sorted.
I've always found asio better, but some have reported better results with wdm on their systems.