Hello,

If this is a new install I would try reinstalling, Because I can run 12 busses with several effects and different bus output assignments, and the buffer is set at default from install, with no problems like that.

When you do the reinstall delete the old directories first and create all new.

See ya, Rockit

Don't forget to defrag that hard-drive, and remember that reverb can suck up 20-80% processor capacity pretty quickly. Especially dense, long reverbs.

here is a sight that has wonderful tips on P.c. optimisation. Although,I've been told that not all tings are good for Vegas, i.e gutting explorer, the rest of the tips have been good and I've no trouble with the tips I've been told to stay away from.
www.geocities.com/pcoptimisation

It sound like you've more than enough push and pull to do what your asking. Perhaps you've a software conflict or some such thing.
theron

I would check in the Preferences >> Routing and see how the audio is being routed. I can output 12 tracks through my standard sound card with no problem, so maybe it has something to do with windows trying to map through the Delta. Probly not much help...
Good Luck

Tracy Simants

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Hmm ...

Your computer is WELL spec'd to do 48+ tracks of STEREO audio. If you're getting clicks the first place I would look is:

1. Check to see if your hard drive is in DMA mode or PIO mode. This is usually a chipset management thing. PIO doesn't work well for audio at all, as it's VERY slow. Even a fast DMA100 drive in PIO mode is hard pressed to get very many tracks running simultaneously.

2. Your chipset on your motherboard may not like your sound card. Check into that. Check your BIOS settings too.

3. Your video card could be the culprit. I used to get clicks a lot in my recorded audio everytime I'd move the mouse (or cause any other grapical re-draw). My video card was on the same IRQ as my sound card. Go to:

Start|Programs|Accessories|System Tools|System Info

Check for conflicts.

4. The usual culprits ... fragmented disks, bad clusters, virus infection, etc.

Good luck!

-=(stu.macQ)=-

Wow, Sorry I wasn't able to help you earlier. I would disregard all of the previous replies except for the last. Sorry..don't mean to offend anyone, but your system should be able to handle at least 48 tracks even with a fragmented hard drive, mine is less of a system than yours and I can record 64 simultaneous tracks without a hiccup. Here's the things to check.

1. Make sure your hard drive you're recording on has DMA enabled. (This usually will almost double the performance of a DAW system using EIDE drives).

2. The most common problem that causes glitches in Vegas is Video cards. Go to your video cards website and make sure you download the latest drivers and install them.

3. Now do the same with your sound card as previous suggestion. Sound card and Video card driver conflicts in your system always causes havok with Vegas.

4. If these three suggestions don't fix your problem, I would suspect some other piece of hardware like a modem, SCSI card, network card maybe causing problems. Right click on the "My computer" icon and select properties,then hardware profiles. Copy your current hardware profile....now with the new hardware profile start disabling hardware and restart your system and then try running Vegas. This is a way you can isolate problem hardware and then get back to where you started easily by deleting hardware profiles. When booting up it will ask you what hardware profile you would like to use.

5. Prey
Good luck,
Brian Franz

A Reverb can use 20-80% of processor? You have 256 MEG of RAM on your system. Plugins tend to be more of a RAM hog than a processor hog. With 256 Meg of ram you should be able to take the most intense reverb and not even notice any system drain. I have a 700Mhz Athlon with 128Meg of RAM and I can run a combination of 14 Waves and TC native Reverbs with no problems. Don't listen to that nonsence with your measely 1 reverb plugin.

Hello,

Also after you do all that, You can right click My Computer Icon on your desktop and select Properties, Then select Device Manager tab and leave computer highlighted and select properties again, this will tell you all your devices and the IRQ"s that's being used. This is where conflicts that don't show on device manager can be found.
You want to look at your Sound card and video card. They should only be sharing with a IRQ Holder For PCI Steering and nothing else. If they are you can move some of your PCI cards around into different slots to get them on different IRQ's.

Good Luck, Rockit