Stuttering/gapping on playback

naclhead wrote on 1/2/2001, 1:09 PM
Hi,

I just got the Delta 1010 sound card (8ins/8outs breakout box) w/ Vegas Pro for Christmas. I downloaded
version 2 trial. I have PIII 500 w/ 128 RAM running Win98. I recorded one song (I believe at 48Hz Still not sure how
that works would love some suggestions on what settings to use) I started with 7 tracks. Snare, Kick, 2 overheads,
bass, guitar, and one scratch vocal. Set up for 4 busses (not sure why yet). When I played back the song for the
band it stuttered and I thought it was due to clipping. I lowered the volume on something and it seemed to go
away. But a couple days later I went to redo the vocal track (on a new track) and got massive gapping. I think I
had added an assignable FX chain to the original vocal track to hear what the effects could do. In that chain I had
reverb, simple delay, chorus, and compressor. When I went to record the new track I muted out the original vocal
track so I would think I was not using the effects. The only way I could getting the gapping to go away and record
my new track was to mute the FX and all other tracks but snare and guitar. I played with the buffering setting. The
status bar was showing 20/120 RAM and disk usage would bounce around from 0% to 11% to 18% and I would
hear the gapping at 11-18%. Based on the RAM usage of only 20Mg of 120Mg availible I figured I could bump that
buffer way up (I tried 1 second and even 2 seconds) and let it use more RAM. When I did the RAM usage only
went to 25/120 but the disk usage went up to 30% or so and gapping was way worse. So I ran the buffer back the
other way to .05 or .10 from the default of .25. So my best result was back at the default of .25 and mute out a
bunch of tracks.

What do you suggest?

Thanks Todd

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 1/2/2001, 9:18 PM
No Comment needed......good luck Peter, Dave, and Dee!!!
It's times like these where I'm glad I only visit here as a
hobby :-)

Todd Zimmermann wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just got the Delta 1010 sound card (8ins/8outs breakout
box) w/ Vegas Pro for Christmas. I downloaded
>>version 2 trial. I have PIII 500 w/ 128 RAM running
Win98. I recorded one song (I believe at 48Hz Still not
sure how
>>that works would love some suggestions on what settings
to use) I started with 7 tracks. Snare, Kick, 2 overheads,
>>bass, guitar, and one scratch vocal. Set up for 4 busses
(not sure why yet). When I played back the song for the
>>band it stuttered and I thought it was due to clipping.
I lowered the volume on something and it seemed to go
>>away. But a couple days later I went to redo the vocal
track (on a new track) and got massive gapping. I think I
>>had added an assignable FX chain to the original vocal
track to hear what the effects could do. In that chain I
had
>>reverb, simple delay, chorus, and compressor. When I went
to record the new track I muted out the original vocal
>>track so I would think I was not using the effects. The
only way I could getting the gapping to go away and record
>>my new track was to mute the FX and all other tracks but
snare and guitar. I played with the buffering setting. The
>>status bar was showing 20/120 RAM and disk usage would
bounce around from 0% to 11% to 18% and I would
>>hear the gapping at 11-18%. Based on the RAM usage of
only 20Mg of 120Mg availible I figured I could bump that
>>buffer way up (I tried 1 second and even 2 seconds) and
let it use more RAM. When I did the RAM usage only
>>went to 25/120 but the disk usage went up to 30% or so
and gapping was way worse. So I ran the buffer back the
>>other way to .05 or .10 from the default of .25. So my
best result was back at the default of .25 and mute out a
>>bunch of tracks.
>>
>>What do you suggest?
>>
>>Thanks Todd