Dropouts when attempting to record...

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I'm using Sonar 6 with a Firepod and most times I begin recording, there is a dropout, so I end up pressing record anywhere from 2 to 6 times to get it to work correctly. After that, it's fine and rarely drops out until I stop that track and begin recording again.

I am on a laptop, and my theory is that it may be the hard drive not being fast enough... But I don't know. My CPU and HD meters rarely peak 50%, too.

Any ideas?

 

[devouredremains]

I'm not familiar with presonus drivers personally but if your using a pc you might want to try disabling onboard sound as well as your wireless adapter from the device manager. I've also heard of firewire adapter chipset incompatibility with presonus gear. The preferred chipset for nearly all audio equipment is Texas Instruments.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

CPU spike?

I get this from time to time.

 

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I'm not familiar with presonus drivers personally but if your using a pc you might want to try disabling onboard sound as well as your wireless adapter from the device manager. I've also heard of firewire adapter chipset incompatibility with presonus gear. The preferred chipset for nearly all audio equipment is Texas Instruments.

Yeah, I'm using an expresscard with a TI chipset.

I'll try disabling onboard.

Oh and Guitargod, I don't know if it's a CPU spike, but this happens 95% of the time as I begin to record.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

My guess is it's not that then. Sometimes I get that when I start then it's fine. Shows up as a sample fuckup when all is done.

 

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So, disabling onboard sound and the wireless adapter didn't change anything.

Any other ideas?

 

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Bump. Would really like to know if you guys have any possible solutions.

 

[Kadmium]

Check your list of network adapters for a "1394 connection" and disable it if it's there

 

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You got an external drive there you can try? If the hard drive can't keep up then it's likely to drop out when you are trying to get it recording simply because it can't write the data fast enough as you said. Because if you think about it its going to have a lot of data transfer when you start recording as it writes all the new files, once its going I imagine its less stressful on resources because it just writes whatever comes through.

I tried running a project on a firewire external and it was worse. Getting a new one this week though, because that last one simply died on me. I'll see what happens then.

 

[beyond dead]

maybe a user specific or root level problem with your computer? I wouldnt rule out the possibility that the issue is with software asvopposed to hardware