"Hickups" in Playback in 7.4

[Groovacious]

Turns out my system, ever since I upgraded to 7.4 (PPC G 5 Dual Processor) shows very annoying hickups, breaks and clicks during playback, sometimes even spitting out sound fragments shortly after I stop playback.

Of course this happens more with extensive track counts.

I have 7.4 straight up (no cs version) anybody encountered this?

New also is that even creating a simple region fade during playback will interrupt PB, displaying a warning referring to speed of harddrive /CPU.

In 7.2 I could do these edits without a problem.

Your 10 cts please

[Scott Goldberg]

Try going to OS 10.4.11 if you have not done so yet. Otherwise, the high track count may be either due to a good preference trashing (I seem to have to do this a lot lately too) or there is a playback engine or buffer problem. Good luck

[tj_davies]

Originally Posted by Groovacious

New also is that even creating a simple region fade during playback will interrupt PB, displaying a warning referring to speed of harddrive /CPU.

In 7.2 I could do these edits without a problem.

This is a known "feature" that everyone is mad about. Here is one of many discussions about it.

Just to eliminate possible errors, is your wordclock set properly and in sync - so your hiccups are not digital clicks?

Timothy

[Groovacious]

Thanks guys,

I see that the Fade/Interrupting PB is well known - but my main (and first) issue was the Hiccups, meaning you can her actual interruptions, Audio fragments from a past segment of the song re-occuring, even sometimes one gets "thrown after you" when you stop PB....

When I lower track and bus count, things tend to get better.

Tried an internal HD, no change whatsoever. 7.4 is buggy! Shame shame....

[DigiTechSupt]

Have you done all the General Troubleshooting steps as well as making sure ALL installed plug-ins are 7.4 compatible?

If not, it's likely that doing so will solve the problem.