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blubat	Date: May 5, 2004 @ 7:30 AM Have you evr had Cakewalk randomly cut out in the middle of one of your tracks? Tell us the story. We had it cut out quite a few times on out drum track of :"blushy girl" and our drummer was a begginer at the time so i was a paain to always restart, but if you have a listen the drum track suddenly stops abruptly thats cause it cut outbut we left it cause it sounded kinda cool and it was at the end so we didnt feel like restarting
victorsskull	Date: May 5, 2004 @ 2:33 PM do you mean drop outs I have had alot of these because my computer isnt big enough
blubat	Date: May 5, 2004 @ 2:40 PM yeah drop outs cut outs same dealio to me lol. I guess thats why we might have gotten it...my pals still use it to record right now i wonder if they experience drop outs i havent used it since i got magix
johnnygnote	Date: May 6, 2004 @ 2:27 AM Drop outs occur because your system resources are low, you need to stop some of the programs that load on start up. Make sure your resource meter is on (I use GT2)and you have more than 60 percent resources to run CW.
Gmonk	Date: May 6, 2004 @ 2:40 AM There's more to it than system resources.. Mainly buffer sizes etc G
johnnygnote	Date: May 6, 2004 @ 3:23 AM This is for Sonar: It doesn't matter how you set your buffers if your resources are low your system won't be able to handle it. " Now let's go back to the General section. Please make the following settings: • select ADSP24 Ext. 1/2 Audio Device as Playback Timing Master • select ADSP24 Ext. 1/2 Audio Device as Record Timing Master • select 16 or 24 as Audio Driver Bit Depth (depending if you want to record with 16 or 24bit resolution). Please do not select anything else, even if available • select the Sampling Rate you want to use and make sure File Bit Depth is set at least as high as Audio Driver Bit Depth • set Buffers in Playback Queue to 2 • set the Buffer Size (= latency) to a value somewhere between Fast and about 1/2 of the fader. Depending on the system performance, you can easily increase this setting if you experience drop outs or reduce it if you want to get lower latency. A fast and well configured system should have no problems with latency values under about 10ms ... check the Driver Profiles section below for more about this" This is from the Cakewalk forum: Not sure exactly what you mean by crashing, however, if you mean drop outs as it was with me try the following: "Under Options \| Audio \| General move the Mixing Latency Slider to the Left side and set the buffers to 2. Then, try it again. If you receive drop outs, then the setting is too low for your system. Try raising the slider until you can playback without dropouts/clicks. You may also have buffer settings in your audio card's software that you can adjust. The level that you can set you latency depends on the soundcard. Some soundcards can handle less buffering and therefore respond faster. You can also increase the I/O buffer size to 256 under Options \| Audio \| Advanced to help with clicks/dropouts in audio." GM's right, I have my GT2 set at playback buffer 4 Buffer size 100msec I rarely if ever have dropouts, but like I said the few times I do is when my system resources dropped below 50% to set your buffers go to Options Audio you'll see where to set your buffers.
blubat	Date: May 6, 2004 @ 7:23 AM cool thanks we just thought it was the program being a bitch. we got it for free afterall we werent expecting much
woodhead	Date: May 8, 2004 @ 1:30 PM another thing with drop outs in cake walk is you need to clean your drive from time to time, this cause it also and is part or your system. I had probs with this a few years back when I first got cakewalk. Johnnygnote is correct in system resources is right. if at all posible if you can run a seperate machine for you recording apps is the way to go, and do not let any thing start up except the op.
thedarkaeons	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 2:59 AM Dropouts can happen if you're trying to play back more tracks than your system can handle. You could try mixing down some tracks or try consolidating chunks of audio onto blank spaces in other tracks.
InsaneWayne	Date: July 20, 2004 @ 6:43 PM RAM, RAM, RAM a 4Ghz PC sucks if it only has 16Mb of ram... seriously tho' I got into PCs when I discovered Winamp and Cakewalk. My frist PC was like a 66mhz (stop laughing) but would run cakewalk (with a single soundcard) when it got upgraded to 512mb ram. Same ram chips, new PC.. 350Mhz pentium and 3 soundcards and the same copy of cakewalk and no problems from the programing. (now if I could only learn to play guitar)
imemine	Date: July 23, 2004 @ 6:33 PM Sonar 2 (I see no reason to move to 3 yet) I’m with InsaneWayne, ram, ram, ram. Also, if you haven’t been beaten to death with this, I prefer an AMD processor with the killer front side buss. Currently running 2.16GHz Athlon w/512 mb ram, M-Audio 24/96 card and I can Run Sonar, a v-synth of choice and a BUNCH of fx plugins w/o problems. FYI too- XP is a lot more stable and works better for audio that 2k and 9x versions. Of course, these comments are not for MAC users.
victorsskull	Date: July 26, 2004 @ 12:00 AM money money money I need money for the ram
imemine	Date: July 30, 2004 @ 10:43 AM It’s really not that expensive now. 512 mb stick for around 80 ‘s. Drink less, smoke less, whatever’s your poison. It’s worth the investment!
Rico111	Date: February 7, 2005 @ 10:31 AM I have CakeWalk Pro Audio 9, plenty of ram at 1 Gig, 750 mhz and only set up for recording. Question/problem: If I do not clean the audio and compress in between takes, such as undo recording, I will get cracking and poping in the next recording of the track? M-Audio 1010Lt for sound card......Could this be a buffering?
imemine	Date: February 7, 2005 @ 3:14 PM Yes—absolutely. I have the 2496 and the same thing happened before I adjusted my buffer setting. My buffer is now set in the middle position @ 92.9msec---I notice virtually no latency at all. There is some good information about optimizing your machine in the Cakewalk forums. That’s where I found and fixed my problem. Good luck!
Rico111	Date: February 7, 2005 @ 4:07 PM Thanks, I will do this and put up another post to confirm the outcome.
Rico111	Date: February 9, 2005 @ 8:29 AM I could not get 92.9 msec, my sound card is set up in numbers such as 1056, so I used 2112 for the buffer size on the MidiMan and set consumer as the I/O setting. In doing three consecutive vocal tracks, deleting recording I ran into no noise! Thanks for the tip.
imemine	Date: February 9, 2005 @ 10:07 AM I was referring to the Cakewalk setting Options/Audio/General---Mixing Latency. I’m very happy whatever you did is working for you. I think that your M-Audio GUI looks similar to mine---obviously more channels. Under my Hardware Settings tab, it looks like this. Sample Rate @ 44,100 Variable Signal Levels-(output) Consumer—I’ve tried it both ways. DMA Buffer Size @ 512
Mshort813	Date: February 15, 2005 @ 4:00 PM That used to happen to me a lot. My computer isnt that great. I only run Cakewalk by itself now so its not too bad. I need an upgrade though if I am going to be recording with my band.
Elu	Date: July 26, 2005 @ 5:30 PM Maybe my latency issue should have been posted here...but, I did the same thing with the buffer settings. I am running a 2.66 Ghz machine with a gig of ram and I have to max out the latency to get it to record and run smoothly. Sometimes when I get too many tracks going I have to jump and bump to make more memory available. I archive everything I am not using. I am thinking about going to 2 ghz of ram. Does anyone have any ideas on this?

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