out of sync

Foreverain4 wrote on 8/25/2002, 12:06 AM
alright yall. i have been using vegas for about 3 years. i have been running a dell 1ghz with 512mb of ram. i have 2 ide 40gig hard drives. have had no problems, and hardly any crashes. i just, last week, added another harddrive to accomidate my increase of clientel. just tonight we were laying down drum tracks to some stuff we have already recorded. i was playing back about 5 tracks from the drive while writting 6 drum tracks. when i play the tracks back, the drums slowly drift out of sync. i cannot hear any noticable glitches like pops of anything. the drive is a 7200rpm. does anyone have any idea what is going on?

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a_v wrote on 8/25/2002, 3:21 AM
hey foreverain,
couple of questions for you

this new drive that you bought and hooked up, is that the one you were using when this happened?

did you try a different drive in your system and retry the recording again?

is recording 6 tracks at one time while playing back a bunch of tracks something you do all the time?

Foreverain4 wrote on 8/25/2002, 3:01 PM
this many tracks is quite common. have not had any problems with my other drives, and still do not when recording to them. i had not check DMA in the drive properties. so i did that, and the whole computer freaked out on me! playback was very slow and jittery, and i could not escape it. i had to reboot. the new drive is on the secondary IDE controller. the other existing drives are on the master. the only other thing on the second IDE controller is a CDRW drive. so, the new drive is the only one this happens to. i can even record to the same drive that vegas and windows is on successfully. the new hard drive is a western digital 7200rpm. is supposed to be for video and audio.
a_v wrote on 8/28/2002, 5:52 AM
foreverain,

checking in to see if you solved your problem

some suggestions...

1) switch that drive with your CDRW in regards to what is master and slave

if that dosent solve it:

2) the possibility of a bad drive exists: you need to try that drive on another system if you can, or try swapping with one of the other drives on your primary channel (preferably the drive that is your non~OS drive!)

if the problem is still there, there is a good chance that drive is just bad.

if the prob clears up, then its something wrong system level.

and 3) did you try a new cable? perhaps that should be higher up on the list