If I'm reading his OP correctly:
 
Craig has a fancy electric guitar (not MIDI) with hex pickups that record the audio of each string thus giving six different outputs* that all need their own tracks. By having that many tracks recording/playing at once it sounds like it exceed his HDD capabilities so he upped the buffer.
 
*He used it in his Advanced Workshop series to show how to turn a six string guitar into a twelve string with the use of pitch shifting and delay which is how I know this... I'm not stalking him I swear! ;-)

Beepster
I'm not stalking him I swear! ;-)

Pff, I'm stalking him! I'm hoping he gives me a job doing something. LOL!!!

Craig, When you refer 64-bit engine, do you mean on audio export, or is there some other place?

Thatsastrat
Ok I'll bite. What are the usual values that you have set. I think I have left those set to the the default of 256 thru Sonar 7, 8 ,8.5, X1 and X2. I am having cpu spikes and pops and crackles in X2, maybe I should look into raising my values.

512 is the default.
 
Scott

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konradh
Craig, When you refer 64-bit engine, do you mean on audio export, or is there some other place?

He means in Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings remove the check mark next to the 64-bit Double Precision Engine option.
 
Scott

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I have to go 1024 or the audio engine stops when I am listening to a 2 bar loop for instance.

Danny Danzi

Beepster
I'm not stalking him I swear! ;-)

Pff, I'm stalking him!

Perhaps we can compare notes...
 
Oh crap, I've said too much!

Anderton
So...as forumites know, I am not above embarrassing myself publicly if I think I can help others not make the same kind of stupid mistake  I installed X3c and recorded a hex guitar part. There were little dropouts and annoying crackles on both record and playback and I had never experienced this before. I figured there was some X3c problem so I rolled back to X3b. To make a long story short and prevent more embarrassment, I realized that the record and playback buffer I/O sizes had somehow reverted to 256. When I increased them back to their usual values, X3c worked fine. Based on advice in this forum I left 64-bit engine unchecked, and haven't encountered any problems.

Hello Craig

You gave me a new idea to check... I have noise as stated in this thread: http://forum.cakewalk.com...spx?m=2925568&fp=4

What are your Normal settings of I/O?
Should you uncheck 64 engine even on 64 bit systems? I run Windows 8.1 64 bit W Sonar X3c

Thanks

ErikDeluxe
Hello Craig

You gave me a new idea to check... I have noise as stated in this thread: http://forum.cakewalk.com...spx?m=2925568&fp=4

What are your Normal settings of I/O?
Should you uncheck 64 engine even on 64 bit systems? I run Windows 8.1 64 bit W Sonar X3c

Thanks

Yes, un-check the 64 bit Double Precision Engine.  It has nothing to do with running a 64 bit machine.