Performance

Motheius wrote on 1/7/2002, 5:46 PM
Hi,

I have a Athlon 1.0 GHz Tunderbird, 512M RAM, and an ATA 100 7200 RPM disk drive running Windows 2000 Pro. I have been working with VV 3.0 for a couple of weeks and I ran into a problem when playing back a song. The song consists on 16 tracks with each track being 16 bit mono pcm wave data. Vegas is unable to properly play this song back at all with out major gaps in the audio every 1/2 to 2 seconds. Playback starts out OK but 3 - 5 seconds into it, Vegas can't keep up. I would like to add that I am running NO FX on ANY track.

I have other songs with the same ammount of tracks/wave type and I am able to play these just fine even when I am using compressors and EQ on all the channels.

To further compund my already baffeled mind, I copied the audio files to a seperate directory and imported them into Cubease 5 Vst 32 and was able to play the song with no problems.

I have my Buffer set to a full 1 Second in the preferences, which is another point I have, why can't I buffer more audio?

I am sure some of you will suggest more RAM and possibly to add a different hard dirve for the OS but I can't see how this would matter since other tunes play just fine with the same ammount of tracks.

--confused.

Comments

pelvis wrote on 1/7/2002, 8:55 PM
You should definitely be able to play a simple project like this back without gapping. I'd try starting a new project, then add the files into the new project one at at time, all the while looking for the problem as you rebuild the project. The fact that you can play back 16 tracks in other projects points to either a screwy/corrupt project, or a corrupt media file.

I bet you can find the problem in less than 10 minutes of sleuthing...good luck!
Jessariah67 wrote on 1/7/2002, 11:46 PM
I agree.

Once in a while I'll snag a MIDI file from the net to mess aroudn with, and sometimes the high end in the audio tracks breaks up. Create another track or download another version of the MIDI, and the problem is solved.

Sounds like that particular file is corrupted.

pwppch wrote on 1/8/2002, 2:13 AM
What are the sample rates of the files?
What is your project sample rate?
What pan model are you using on the tracks?

How is your mixer page set up and what kind of routing from tracks to busses do you have?

Peter





Motheius wrote on 1/8/2002, 10:04 AM
>What are the sample rates of the files?

44.1

>What is your project sample rate?

44.1

>What pan model are you using on the tracks?

Everything is Center currently

>How is your mixer page set up and what kind of >routing from tracks to busses do you have?

I have 1 Master Fader and no routing from tracks to busses. I don't even have FX running, they are bypassed.

Motheius wrote on 1/8/2002, 10:05 AM
I will try making a new project and importing the audio files into this new project.

Thanks for the suggestions!