Sudden Appearance of Dropouts
Sudden Appearance of Dropouts
Wwweeeiird - so I've been recording a LOT lately, but now all of a sudden I'm getting nasty latency dropouts while recording - this has NEVER happened before. I'm using a Acid 3.5 on a Dell w/384 megs of RAM and recording to an added 120 gig hardrive. This setup has worked flawlessly for *years*.
It seems that perhaps the dropouts appear when my song approaches using 13 megs of the total 384 available. Which seems fairly ridiculous. Also, I think I just dropped below ~95 gig of free space on my hard drive. Which also seems ridiculous.
This is getting horrible though - I can't record two measures without a dropout and latency. HALP!
I already ran chkdsk and defragged both the C drive and the recording drive.
It seems that perhaps the dropouts appear when my song approaches using 13 megs of the total 384 available. Which seems fairly ridiculous. Also, I think I just dropped below ~95 gig of free space on my hard drive. Which also seems ridiculous.
This is getting horrible though - I can't record two measures without a dropout and latency. HALP!
I already ran chkdsk and defragged both the C drive and the recording drive.
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No! Weird, eh? All I can think of is that I've been recording tons of songs so I'm using much more of the hard drive than before...but even then my usage is relatively small %-wise...
I'm gonna back everything up and just make sure everything is still connected inside. There's a big cobweb on the outside of the case so maybe the inside needs some TLC too...Man, the joys of technology...
I'm gonna back everything up and just make sure everything is still connected inside. There's a big cobweb on the outside of the case so maybe the inside needs some TLC too...Man, the joys of technology...
I have had the same problem lately though maybe not quite as bad as yours, but it's driving me nuts. For me it varies from a little gap once in a song, to every 30 seconds or so. Incredibly frustrating. I can be rolling along fine recording like 7 or 8 tracks of 44.1/24 and then suddenly there'll be little dropouts. Bad hard drive? Clock issues? Too much humidity?? I'm baffled, and if anyone has some suggestions I'd love to hear them...
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you don't mention your I/O? i recently had this issue with my 828mkii that i?ve had running perfectly for years and then all of a sudden i started getting drop out which progressively got worse and worse, rebooting the 828 would fix it. after troubleshooting the computer/OS for a while i started looking at the 828 and tried it on several computers and though it didn't react when using standalone it did do the same thing with other computers. it turned into bit crushing in the end and i have it sent in right now. motu has had it for 3 fucking weeks now and only replied to one email saying they are waiting for a replacement. i assume something in the clock died.
flat repair rate $80 and shipping to them and i think the warranty starts over too
good luck,
steven
flat repair rate $80 and shipping to them and i think the warranty starts over too
good luck,
steven
Thanks! I'm using an 828mkII and it makes sense that this is the part of the chain that's screwed... I'll check this out.
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