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donholmes@comcast.ne
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2011/08/25 13:18:10 (permalink)

hiccups when recording

  I'm running X1 on XPsp3, 2gb ram, 2.66ghz quadcore cpu, with 3 hdds. The o/s and sonar are on C: (10k rpm), and the data files are on E:(10k rpm). The samples for kontakt drums and dimension pro are on D: (7500rpm). I have the lan disabled. I can't record a track all the way through without several hiccups by the end of the song. It seems to correspond with HDD activity. I've maxed the buffers in XP on all 3 drives. I've put my Sonar record/playback buffer to 2048 and tried everything below that. I didn't have this problem till I changed the audio driver setting in Sonar to 24 from 16. The record depth has always been 24. I have a usb Tascum US-122 for audio/midi interface, that does 24. Is anyone else running X1 successfully on a similar class PC, or do I just need a faster motherboard & cpu? I could double my ram but only part of it would be seen by XP, I understand.
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    rbowser
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 13:50:50 (permalink)
    Don, "hiccups" doesn't really accurately describe the problem you're having.  Hiccups while recording or playing back can mean many different things.  Do you mean you hear a click while recording, or a note seems to be skipped?---If so, all sorts of imperfect playback can happen while recording a MIDI track - and that really doesn't matter.  What's important is if your MIDI track can be bounced to audio without those same glitches.

    But I'm only guessing at what you're talking about.

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    donholmes@comcast.ne
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 14:16:18 (permalink)
      Sorry, not talking about midi, talking about audio recording. It's a small pause then continuing, like it's choking on too much i/o. I have to stop the recording or what I recorded when it did that will jump ahead of the beat.
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 14:18:20 (permalink)
    donholmes@comcast.ne


      Sorry, not talking about midi, talking about audio recording. It's a small pause then continuing, like it's choking on too much i/o. I have to stop the recording or what I recorded when it did that will jump ahead of the beat.


    OK, I see.  Do those hiccups show up in the recorded track, or are they heard only as you're recording?

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    donholmes@comcast.ne
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 14:24:37 (permalink)
    I hear them when I'm recording, and when I play back the track I've recorded, it skips for whatever the length of the hiccup was when recording. I.e., Sonar stops for a second while accessing the disk.
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 14:33:36 (permalink)
    I have a usb Tascum US-122 for audio/midi interface



    Check out this thread on issues with Tascam US-122:


    http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=791015


    The thread also has links to other threads on the topic. Consensus seems to be this interface's drivers are not that great, but there might be something in these threads that can improve your situation.


    In the mean time, I would reset audio and disk buffers to something more typical like 256 samples and 256kb, respectively, and go from there.


    I think your PC's basic specs are fine, though another 2GB of RAM would be a good idea.

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    donholmes@comcast.ne
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 14:47:55 (permalink)
    thanks. Do you think firewire would make a difference? What's good besides Presonus (poor build quality on their products)?
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    Re:hiccups when recording 2011/08/25 14:54:06 (permalink)
    I use m audio profire 610, works great no latency problems with asio
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