ok just a paste from a PM to Wookie:
USB Tascam 1800, I tried all modes on that.. I have no idea what's goin on... seems that the process of saving the recording as it is being recorded is not working right... and I did see my CPU activity spike full a few times... over of many hours of troubles shooting the issue. starting over with new projects.
The only other thing I came a cross was the XLN midi data was not working in time when it has always worked in the past as well... (XLN was not used on last recording). The problem with was the XLN midi data would not time out right in track unless I changed the tempo in PLAT to match the default tempo of the XLN data loop before putting it to track... then changing SPLAT timing to what I needed... and I bounced the midi data to a wave that sounded perfect.
this was all just a open a new project, setting it up with 1 XLN clip pulled out 3 minuets and recording like I have done many times with no issues... something is wrong here and frankly I can't record anything right now on two different closed systems. not even being close to the same setup...