Il be back in a few hours and try to sort this out for you ! the ram voltage is a issue!!

Sorry for my english: My system runs Windows7 64 (What you see is an old partion of xp64 in dual boot that I don't use anymore) My antivirus has the rule not to scan SONAR and related component (such as VST, etc...) Also Win Defender has the same rule. Of course I tried to deactivate them but with no result. Firewire Konnekt48 driver has always been very stable! I replaced, just yesterday, the 1394 connection cable with an hi end one... But no success! Parallel port and serial port are deactivated. This PC works only to make music. No games on it, no applications except open office, Nero burning rom, i tunes, Vlc player, acrobat reader. etc... (I mean winzip, win rar, etc...)

I was able to reduce the dropouts for the first time, having unistalled i-tunes. Now X2 stops less easily then before. I don't love I-tunes and then I will manage my i-pad in a different way. Anyway dropouts still occurr.It's a very annoying problem.

Only an illusion. Dropouts still out there!!!

piangio


Sonar and its featured aplications is excluded from the routines of Karpersky and Win defender. Bob I don't understand, above all for my poor english, your last two lines about 32bit windows.

Use one or the other. Not both.


If you wantvto "tune" W7 use this site as a reference : 


http://www.blackviper.com/


Cheers,
Jerry

Any idea out there Noel? I also add this: Now time ruler doesn't follow playback in piano roll, is there something I toggled doing some wrong operation?

Unistalled X1. Unistalled X2 and re-installed. Dropouts are still here!
What do you think about a new graphic card, more powerful than GeForce GT9400?

Piangio,

I had trouble with drop outs after upgrading to X2 for a bit. I found that I had to change my settings in Preferences > File > Audio Data > Render Bit Depth 24

I often use 24 bit 88.2 when recording. I find that when I use this resolution and an amp sim that sometimes I get drop-outs. You can freeze the track to reduce these issues too.

I don't mean to suggest that this is your problem, but I'm telling you it was mine and the solution was to reduce the render bit-depth.

You can see the bit depth of a clip by right clicking it and choosing the bottom selection of associated audio files. This will show the bit depth but not the sampling rate. You can play with your sampling rate too if you get lots of freezing.

I like to use 88.2 but when I really can't afford a drop out, I consider tracking at 44.1 if it is sufficient (usually is fine for the work I do).

Thank you very much.
I'm going to test this...

? Any updates to your situation?  Have you tried anything from my earlier post?

I remain eager to help, if I can.

Bob Bone