Delay before record starts

[mampam]

Since updating to 10.4.2 and PT 6.9.3r2 I have a one second delay before the playhead moves and recording begins. If I dis-arm from record there is no start delay. My MIDI count off is turned off. Any ideas.

[Shawn Simpson]

Go to the operations tab of your preferences and check to see that you have the 'open ended record allocation' set to a reasonable time limit rather than 'use all available space'.

[Craig F]

what is your record allocation time set to?

[mampam]

60 minutes......I have tried as short as 3minutes. I can boot off my other Panther drive and all is well using the same audio drives.

[mampam]

60 minutes......I have tried as short as 3minutes. I can boot off my Panther drive and all is well using the same audio drives.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Reformat your audio drive as HFS+ with Journalling enabled.

Rail

[mampam]

I did that two days before the upgrade.
From the Disk Utility Info Page:
Disk Identifier : disk4s3
Mount Point : /Volumes/Studio A RAID
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Fibre Channel Interface
Partition Type : Apple_HFS
Device Tree : pci2/IntraServer,fc@4,1/disk@1:3
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : BFDE86DE-433B-32ED-83DA-AC2370D5A2D9
Capacity : 345.1 GB (370,549,948,416 Bytes)
Free Space : 268.7 GB (288,498,978,816 Bytes)
Used : 76.4 GB (82,050,969,600 Bytes)
Number of Files : 42,214
Number of Folders : 1,791
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 4
Partition Number : 3

[Rail Jon Rogut]

What's your DAE Buffer set to (the defualt 2) ?

This drive is hooked up to a SAN ?

Rail

[mampam]

DAE buffer is 2 (Default) and yes it is hooked up to an Apple X-serve with Fibre Share X as the software. This has worked perfectly for two rooms for two years. And it is working perfectly on our identical system. That's why I keep thinking it is some preference I am missing

[Rail Jon Rogut]

I would check your SAN settings.

There are only 3 things in Pro Tools which can cause slow start time:

1) DAE Buffer size.
2) Open Ended Record Allocation
3) Count-off

If you trash your prefs and reset these to 2, 10 minutes and Off respectively.. and you still have a slow start time -- look elsewhere.

Rail