Sonar 5 DROP OUTS with Project Mix IO

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Member Since: Jul 31, 2006

Hey, i was wondering..

i've been experiancing alot of drop outs when playing this back with my sonar 5 producers edition. i've searched all over and didnt find much info. i was wondering if you ever had this problem?

like especially when i record, and the audio's playing. it stops and it says drop out on the botton of the screen, my CPU usage, as it says on the bottom isnt even hitting 5% so i know that cant be the problem.

and it seems when i add more tracks i get more drop outs, sometimes when i have 8 tracks going on it wont even play because it will stall for 3 seconds, then it will say drop out.

any ideas?

I'm using the project Mix I/O.
and even with cubase LE I've been getting drop outs, but very few compared to my use with Sonar 5..

Specs:
Windows XP Pro, SP2
AMD Athlon 3000+ 1.8 Ghz
2 GB Ram

My System Sounds are off
My Processing Services is in Background Servics
In Sonar, Read/Write Cahing are disabled, and dosnt help too much when i Enable it..

At first i didnt have any problems. but as i started recording more, the drops outs soon after started to occurr..

- Mike

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Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


Sep 10, 2006 06:11 pm

What sample rate and bit rate are you recording at? Also what is your audio latency buffer set at in Sonar and in the Project mix control panel.

It sounds as you might have it set far too low with the sample rate and bit rate set for very high quality.

What I suggest is running the buffers at either 128 or 256 and trying a project at 16 bit 44.100khz and see how that turns out.

I run Sonar 5 PE and can run more then 40 tracks of audio and software synths combined without any dropouts at all. And I'm only running a slightly faster CPU then you are with the same 2 gig of ram. I am running that through and ESI ESP 1010 interface running ASIO drivers.

And that brings up one more thing to check. Be sure you are not running the emulated MME drivers. You should be running at the very least WDM drivers but
preferably the ASIO drivers.

Noize

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