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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject: glitch in recordings

This is driving me batty. But every few minutes or so, I get a glitch where Audition stops recording for a few milliseconds.

Here's an example

Anyone ever heard this before? I've got my primary temp on a separate physical, internal drive and the secondary temp on the system drive. buffer set to 32MB and I've got 768M of ram. No other programs running at the same time and I even shut off the wireless network connection.

thoughts?
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Frank F · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 4:07 am Post subject:

Do you have a huge amount of space available on your Primary HD? What is available on the Secondary HD? You should have at least 5 GB minimum, available.

Do you have a firewall? Try turning off the firewall.

Are you running any Anti-virus software in the background? Norton and McAffee are notorious for similar problems. Turn the AV software OFF! when recording.

The glitch sounds like something is running in the background and taking over the resources every so often. You may have a virus. Try unplugging from the internet and see if the problem persists, if so, run your AV software. Or you may need to uninstall and re-install AA.

I am assuming you are using 3.0, correct? The current round of AA had a recent tweak due to numerous problems with the interface. I could not find where the tweak is available but you may look in the Adobe Forums. AA 2.0 and 3.0 has several nice features, and several horrendous problems with stability - issues which have yet to be completely resolved.

Good luck.

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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:27 am Post subject:

Jeff, this happens to me when my computer it "tired" and I am running more than one thing at a time. I've recently cleaned it up and I haven't had a problem since.
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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

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What Mandy said. Do a disk defrag and also a hard disk cleanup as the first line of attack. You might also uninstall and reinstall Audition afterwards if you still encounter the issue.

Jason Bishop · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

Jeff,

You might try running the free Latency checker from this website:
http://www.thesycon.de/eng/free_download.shtml

It was posted on another vo site a while back.
Anyway, have everything you normally run running then launch this thing and let it run for couple of minutes as you watch it.
With it I found that I was getting a spike roughly every 30-seconds that went away after I unplugged my internet cable....then I got smaller spikes at regular intervals until I turned of my Norton Internet Security.

Once both turned off, no spikes. Which is good for actual paying work, but maybe you want the glitches as a "watermark" for audtions! Wink

Good Luck

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jrkaiser · Guest

Yep. what Frank said... also, depending on the version of Audition it can also be a resource hog.

Go to http://www.belarc.com, run the report, e-mail it to me (PM me for the address). I may have some additional RAM that will fit your machine.

JK

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks all. The solution was easy. I simply bumped up the ASIO buffer size in Asio4All to 1408 samples. No glitches anymore!
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