ok so here's a silly question...

i'm workin on a track, and i want to bounce everything to wav, i did so and now when i load up all the wav files into my sequencer(FL) i get extreme choppy playback even tho my CPU meter reads maybe...15-20%

before bouncing, my CPU meter was at about 40%, and the track played fine...now after bouncing to wav, it's starting to act up?

i was trying to avoid this by bouncing...what am i doing wrong lol?

choppy playback? like does it stall? are you seeing blank spaces in the wave forms when it shouldn't be? are they looped correctly?

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 choppy playback? like does it stall? are you seeing blank spaces in the wave forms when it shouldn't be? are they looped correctly?

it stalls, yes. the waveforms are fine, looping is fine...

How many files did you bounce?

If you're trying to play 24 tracks off a crappy old hard drive, it's going to skip. It's not the CPU anymore that's limiting you, it's actually your drive.

If you have multiple drives, definitely bounce your audio to a dedicated one that's not being used for programs, system, pagefiles, any of that stuff. I have a "Samples" drive for this express purpose.

If not, you're SOL - you have to find the right balance between disk usage and CPU usage. Or, route a couple of channels to a group and bounce them into one file as opposed to a separate file for each track.

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How much RAM do you have and how many tracks are you trying to play simultaneously?

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Originally posted by DigiNut How many files did you bounce? If you're trying to play 24 tracks off a crappy old hard drive, it's going to skip. It's not the CPU anymore that's limiting you, it's actually your drive. If you have multiple drives, definitely bounce your audio to a dedicated one that's not being used for programs, system, pagefiles, any of that stuff. I have a "Samples" drive for this express purpose. If not, you're SOL - you have to find the right balance between disk usage and CPU usage. Or, route a couple of channels to a group and bounce them into one file as opposed to a separate file for each track.

+1

HD bandwith is a bitch. Depending on your system, I'd suggest a Serial ATA setup or even a RAID if you're doing crazy stuff.

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Originally posted by DigiNut How many files did you bounce? If you're trying to play 24 tracks off a crappy old hard drive, it's going to skip. It's not the CPU anymore that's limiting you, it's actually your drive. If you have multiple drives, definitely bounce your audio to a dedicated one that's not being used for programs, system, pagefiles, any of that stuff. I have a "Samples" drive for this express purpose. If not, you're SOL - you have to find the right balance between disk usage and CPU usage. Or, route a couple of channels to a group and bounce them into one file as opposed to a separate file for each track.

damn, this is def the problem...the HD is about 2 yrs old, and it has about 4 gigs out of 160 left of free space lol.

i have 13 tracks playing at the same time...

looks like i need to get a dedicated drive!

defrag brotha

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 defrag brotha

Even that won't help if he has too many files going. Defragging can free up a lot of space, but it won't speed you up that much.

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Originally posted by thoughtlessjex Even that won't help if he has too many files going. Defragging can free up a lot of space, but it won't speed you up that much.

yes it will

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it could.


However it could be the software as well. I've been playing with ableton 5 a while ago and it experienced playback problems with about 10 wave files at a time, while cubase had no problemse playing more, and bigger wav files alltogether.

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 yes it will http://www.pcpitstop.com/ http://www.musicxp.net/

I know what defragging is. Unless you've not defragged in years, never done it before, or just deleted a hell of a lot of files, it won't change the speed of your Hard-drive that much. Why? It's like cough syrup. It alleviates the symptoms, but it doesn't solve the main problem, which is that your harddrive isn't big or fast enough.

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