Apr 06, 2008 11:08 pm Having your buffers too high can also be a problem. Try them at 512 or 256 and see how that works for you.
Buffer problems
Posted on Apr 06, 2008 09:51 pm
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Member Since: Apr 06, 2008
Well i finally got my m-box 2 and everything up and running and went to record my first song and sure enough if i did not get buffer overload warnings 10 seconds in. I tried to up the buffer setting all the way to 2048 still not working. Any ideas? Also what is the least taxing program? My computer specs are ( gateway 500gr) 1 gig memory, 1 200 and 1 300 gig seagate 7200 drives. 3.00 mhz processor. I know it is not the fastest computer but i can not even play back one track with no effects...also i have it on a seperate partition for daw only...Any help would be great...thanks.
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Apr 06, 2008 11:08 pm Having your buffers too high can also be a problem. Try them at 512 or 256 and see how that works for you.
Apr 07, 2008 01:37 am Can you explain buffers to me? I never understood what they are for.
Apr 07, 2008 07:22 am Do usb ports get assigned an IRQ? if so could thier be a conflict with that maybe? I ran the gauntlet on the buffer settings from 512-2048...to no prevail. the thing that gets me is that it does it while just playing back an imported audio track with no effects...I watched the cpu load and it does not go over 3%...any other ideas?
Apr 07, 2008 07:35 am i dont know exactly how to describe em,(buffers) but, when recording you want em resonably low like 256 and during playback or mixing etc you want to raise it, i use about 728 or something like that.
Apr 07, 2008 11:22 am Buffers are...well....buffers. They are like an amount of storage(in samples) that goes into ram before it gets written to disc(or gets processed by the D/A converter). This prevents any interruption in the writing. If your buffers are too low the stream will get broken because there is nothing in memory for the disc to grab. If the buffers are too high, the stream gets interrupted because memory is waiting for the buffer to get filled before it writes to disc(this shouldn't occur during playback).
What I think you are talking about is digital distortion however and I doubt that any amount of buffer adjustment will fix this. Turn the volume down on the imported track and see what that does. If there is a limiter in the master bus remove it, or turn the makeup gain down if that parameter is available.
Apr 07, 2008 01:56 pm the error message says to increas h/w buffers, in protools, It is really a pain. I found a checklist of things to do to your computer to prep it for protools use, maybe this will help.
Apr 07, 2008 04:13 pm Alright, this is hindsight now. Did you check with Digidesigns website for compatibility issues? There are several chipsets that are not recommended or simply not compatible with ProTools LE. Also if you are using Win XP Media, you're S.O.L.
Regarding the error message. I haven't been running PT for about 4 months now. Does it specifically mention playback buffer? This would be under device setup or something to that effect.
Apr 08, 2008 07:33 am Yeah, the website did not say anything about my mobo... However it was not working and it was making me mad. So i loaded up an old friend (acid 6.0) and of course it worked fine, what is weird is that i used my waves plug-ins and my computer handled it fine. I did some research and found a lot of complaints about protools le having buffer problems....o well.
Apr 08, 2008 11:35 am Did you try removing the Waves plugins from the ProTools folder first? Waves and Digi work hand in hand and if there is even the odor of crack around it will cause problems with ProTools.
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