Peter_H
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Stuttering time line
I'm using Producer 7, my PC runs Win 7, loads of memory. Recording Midi from my Motif XS through USB.
Recording is fine but when I play it back the timeline moves jerkily stopping for up to 1 sec at a time then catches up by playing fast. I've tried pressing the Pause/Break button and I've got the buffer as low as poss.
Any ideas experts?
Thanks in advance
Peter
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daveny5
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/29 09:16:11
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Windows 7 64-bit? Sonar 32 or 64-bit?
Make sure your audio device is set for ASIO mode.
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/29 09:28:01
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SONAR has a mode that kicks in when CPU cycles are in short supply, wherein visual components are deprecated in favor of the audio stream. The most obvious symptom is a jerky time line and lagging response to button clicks and dragging knobs and sliders during playback.
Try bypassing effects, starting with busses, and re-enable them after you've finished tracking. You might also check your Windows task list for any processes that can be killed, e.g. OSPPSVC.EXE. If you have a network adapter in your DAW, see if disabling it doesn't fix the problem.
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Peter_H
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/29 09:56:54
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Guys I am most grateful to you both for your advice, I now have a smooth playback by switching to ASIO (senior moment did not spot this) and generally turning off any surplus operations
It was 32 bit Dave
Thanks again guys - you're the biZ
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/29 12:17:20
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You might also find you get this behaviour by pressing the Pause key on your keyboard
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/29 21:02:30
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It was 32 bit Dave Glad to help, but with 32-bit, you're wasting more than half your RAM because 32-bit can only access 3-4GB at most. Move to 64-bit so you can use all those loads of RAM. 
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/30 11:52:16
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I don't think there was a 64 bit version of Sonar 7 but yes hopefully he's running W7 64 bit. I still have Sonar 7 installed on my W7 64 bit and it works fine. ( haven't used it in a year however)
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/10/30 15:04:42
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I don't think there was a 64 bit version of Sonar 7...
Yes there is.
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Peter_H
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Re:Stuttering time line
2012/11/06 05:26:19
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Thanks again guys for your advice
Bristol Jonesy - already had tried that (see my post)
Dave - thanks but whenever I alter something on the PC things tend to go belly up - it's all working fine now so I'll stick where I am
Regards
Peter
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