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Getting Pops during recording/playback
I just got into computer recording have been using an mbox 2 mini with windows 7 home premium 64 bit on pro tools 8.05. I am recording to a usb external seagate 750gb goflex drive. I just now joined the forum and read the rule about no external usb drives. However, prior to this week I could record and was getting no pops. This week everything has changed. I now hear pops and clicks in the audio when recording and even playing back old sessions where previously there wasn't pops and clicks. I recently invested in a nice microphone only to discover that I can't have more than one track with one plugin before I get a 6035 underflow buffer error. I did a system usage check and i was using less than 20% CPU rtas. I have tried all kinds of different buffer settings, changing the startup so only pro tools was selected, changing the setting to remove windows aero when pro tools is playing. Is there anything else I can do to avoid getting pops and clicks and dae buffer errors every 40 seconds? Also my computer has no firewire port or express port. Its a 2011 Sony Vaio VPECH with an i3-2310m [email protected]. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Re: Getting Pops during recording/playback
Windows 7 does support recording to USB2 drives(and NOT firewire drives), so let's look at some other details. Is the USB drive a 7200 rpm drive? That's really important. Next, how is it formatted? Right-click on MyComputer, select Manage, then Disk Management.(with that drive connected) and see what it says in the left-most box. If it says BASIC and NTFS, that's good. If it says something else, what does it say? FAT32 drive support is pretty much gone with the newest OS versions. If this isn't raising any flags, click on the link above that says "Help us Help you" and read up on how to post a Sandra report. That report may turn up a hardware issue(in case you didn't know, Pro Tools is very finicky about computer hardware).
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Re: Getting Pops during recording/playback
AFAIK Segate go-flex are 2.5" 5400 RPM drives = too slow for audio recording. Even if it has worked in the past, fragmentation or a large amount of audio in a session may cause it to deliver audio too slow for it to playback properly.
Buffer errors that happen as a result of plug ins indicate yet another possible performance related issue. Please follow albee's suggestion and post a Sandra report.
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Re: Getting Pops during recording/playback
Thanks for responding guys! Il post a Sandra report later this afternoon. Are there any USB external drives you all recommend?
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Re: Getting Pops during recording/playback
Alright guys so i checked the goflex750 and it was a 5400rpm but it did say basic and ntfs. Here is my sandra report. Let me know if you guys find anything else besides the hard drive that was giving me pops and buffer messages. Thanks aton!
Computer Model : Sony Corporation VPCEH14FM Processor Model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz Speed : 2GHz Cores per Processor : 2 Unit(s) Threads per Core : 2 Unit(s) Type : Dual-Core Integrated Data Cache : 2x 32kB, Synchronous, Write-Thru, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing L2 On-board Cache : 2x 256kB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing L3 On-board Cache : 3MB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 12-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size, 4 threads sharing Computer Mainboard : Sony Corporation VAIO BIOS : INSYDE R0180Z9 04/28/2011 Bus(es) : X-Bus PCI PCIe USB i2c/SMBus Multi-Processor (MP) Support : No Multi-Processor Advanced PIC (APIC) : No Total Memory : 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM Chipset Model : 4173 0104h Front Side Bus Speed : 1x 100MHz (100MHz) Total Memory : 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM Channels : 1 Memory Bus Speed : 2x 667MHz (1.33GHz) Memory Module(s) Memory Module : CE M471B5273DH0-CH9 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-10700S DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5) Video System Video Adapter : Intel(R) HD Graphics Family (12 SM4.1 650MHz, 64MB DDR3 2x666MHz, Integrated Graphics) Graphics Processor Compute Shader Processor : Intel(R) HD Graphics Family (12SP 650MHz, 64MB 2x666MHz, Integrated Graphics) Storage Devices TOSHIBA MK6465GSXN (640.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, NCQ, 8MB Cache) : 596GB (C:) Optiarc DVD RW AD-7710H (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) : N/A (E:) Logical Storage Devices System Reserved : 100MB (NTFS) Hard Disk (C:) : 586GB (NTFS) @ TOSHIBA MK6465GSXN (640.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, NCQ, 8MB Cache) Recovery : 11GB (NTFS) Hard Disk (Q:) : N/A Optical Drive (E:) : N/A @ Optiarc DVD RW AD-7710H (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) Peripherals LPC Hub Controller 1 : 4173 1C49h LPC Legacy Controller 1 : T0 FC-11 Audio Device : 4173 1C20h Audio Codec : 5361 506Eh Disk Controller : 4173 1C03h USB Controller 1 : 4173 1C2Dh USB Controller 2 : 4173 1C26h SMBus/i2c Controller 1 : Intel 801xx/63xx SMBus Printers and Faxes Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer (600x600, Colour) Printer : Lexmark Z2400 Series (4800x4800, USB, Colour) Printer : HP Officejet 4500 G510n-z fax (200x200, Colour) Printer : HP Officejet 4500 G510n-z (1200x1200, Colour) Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200x200) Scanners and Cameras Scanner : Hewlett-Packard 4500 G510n-z,10.0.0.3 (Scanner, 2400x2400, USB) Network Services Network Adapter : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Network Adapter : Intel(R) Centrino(R) WiMAX 6150 Wireless Adapter 1 : Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 6150 (802.11g (ERP), TKIP, 54Mbps) Power Management Mains (AC) Line Status : On-Line Battery No 1 : 45% Operating System Windows System : Microsoft Windows 7 Home 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1) Platform Compliance : x64 Windows Experience Index Current System : 4.7 |
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