Why does 5.1 take so long to start after hitting PLAY?

[jjelduce]

I just upgraded to 5.1 and I found that there is a delay of about 2 seconds when i have as little as 12 channels in record and i hit the space bar to start playing the track. Whats the deal? I didnt have this in 5.0.1 and nothing in my rig has changed! I used to hit play and no matter how many tracks i had in record (up to 60) and the session would immediately start playing. This is killing me when I am trying to do fast punches. I feel like i am working on a Studer A80 again! Please help! "mad"

[uno1234]

Set the limit record time to 5 minutes in the preferences menu. It might have changed on installation.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Also make sure that your DAE buffer setting is set to 2.

Rail

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Recording Engineer

[blairl]

Are you using any RTAS plug-ins? There is a larger latency issue with RTAS plug-ins due to the way they use the CPU for processing.

[Charles Deenen]

Check your memory control panel. If this is set above 1000, that will cause a playback delay

-dc

[swablar]

The "Limit Record Allocation" pref set too high or defaulted will slow things down if your recording partition is really large (18 gig+)
PB Buffer should be 2 on any PT system except PT III hardware
Disk Cache at 512 in the Memory Contorl Panel
** but I 've seen this one a lot-> make sure you don't have the "2 BAR" button on in the transport. Open you Transport Window and display all 3 sections of it. The "2 BAR" button automatically gives you a 2 bar pre-roll and if you use certain keypad configurations and/or quick keys its pretty easy to turn on accidentally.
also, make sure Pre-Roll is off and trash any old PT (prior verisons) prefs

satisfaction guaranteed

[Baixo]

Are you using HFS+ disks? If so, they take longer to prime and someone else mentioned the cure: limit your disk space allocation to under 60 minutes.