Scrolling, Recording, and CPU load

zemlin wrote on 12/4/2003, 3:58 AM

I did a couple of DAW hardware upgrades this week, so now I'm testing things out - recording 24 tracks of Metronome to check for sync and dropout issues.

I noticed something interesting. After recording 24 tracks for 2 minutes the system would bog down and start to skip - the Metronome would not even play consistantly. I checked CPU load and it is jumping to 100%. This corresponds with the point where the cursor scrolls off the screen. If I drag the scroll bar so the cursor is visible the CPU load drops and does not rise again when the cursor scrolls off the screen.

This is with 4.0e - I think I'm going to dry 4.0d and see if happens with that as well.

Is there a setting I'm overlooking somewhere that will keep the cursor on-screen at all times when recording? Might be a workaround.

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cosmo wrote on 12/9/2003, 9:31 AM

I used to have sort of the same problem and never solved it. My box runs a P4 2.4, a gig of ram, delta 410 audio etc and Vegas would do that freeze/skipping stuff whenever I stacked up about 10 or 12 tracks and started mixing. After a minute or so of playback the skipping would start...then the freeze. Holy crap that's annoying.

My solution was to go to Nuendo(Steinberg). Sorry guys but I think it blows Vegas away for audio stuff....and the Rewire feature - amazing. In Nuendo I can have as many tracks as I want, with lots of heavy plug ins like Waves and my CPU never goes over 60%-70%. The headaches are finally gone and creativity is back.

Vegas rocks the house for video and red book CD burning still for me though. I do DVD-A discs from Vegas too quite happily. Awesome app....just seems to be picky about what it will play nicely with.