Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun -ACID Product Family

Subject:Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun Posted by: rreid Date:11/17/2004 2:22:30 PM I'm getting a buffer underrun error every time I try to render to CD. I've tried rendering to temporary file first, and tried rendering only one small wav file to disk, but still get this error. Anyone run into this? Any work-arounds?
Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:11/17/2004 4:17:32 PM If your CD burner supports buffer underrun protection, make sure this is on. If not, the easiest thing is to just burn at a slower speed. Buffer underrun means your PC cannot keep up with the CD Burner. If you rendered to a temporary file first, then you hard drive can’t keep up with your CD burner. This is highly unlikely with new 7200RPM hard drives but if you’re using a laptop, especially an older one, this could happen. Also some of the faster CD burns are getting quite fast. You can try defragging your hard drive. You can add a second physical hard drive and do all of your audio work on that (away from the system hard drive and swap file). Having a permanent swap file also helps system performance. But if all else fails, just burn at a slower speed. ~jr
Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun Reply by: rreid Date:11/19/2004 10:36:40 PM I'm burning at the slowest speed possible. The computer is practically new (less than 1 year old). I'm wondering if it is a problem with the CD burner or with the Acid software. But since I haven't seen a overflow of replies on this, I'm suspecting it is a problem with the CD burner.
Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:11/20/2004 5:48:18 AM Do you have any other software to test with? Usually a CD Burner comes with some minimal burning software. Even Windows XP has burning software built in. You should be able to render your song as a WAV file. Take that WAV file and drag it onto the CD burner. XP should open a CD burning window where you can say burn this file to the CD. If that (or other CD burning sotfware) fails, it’s the burner. If that works, then it could be something about ACID. ~jr
Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun Reply by: rreid Date:11/21/2004 2:49:10 PM Yes, I actually was successfull when using Windows Media Player to burn a wav file to CD. So, the burner works. Not a huge problem not to be able to burn from within Acid, but I did send a message to Acid Support... Thanks for all the replies...

Subject:Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun

Posted by: rreid

Date:11/17/2004 2:22:30 PM

I'm getting a buffer underrun error every time I try to render to CD. I've tried rendering to temporary file first, and tried rendering only one small wav file to disk, but still get this error.

Anyone run into this? Any work-arounds?

Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:11/17/2004 4:17:32 PM

If your CD burner supports buffer underrun protection, make sure this is on. If not, the easiest thing is to just burn at a slower speed. Buffer underrun means your PC cannot keep up with the CD Burner. If you rendered to a temporary file first, then you hard drive can’t keep up with your CD burner. This is highly unlikely with new 7200RPM hard drives but if you’re using a laptop, especially an older one, this could happen. Also some of the faster CD burns are getting quite fast.

You can try defragging your hard drive. You can add a second physical hard drive and do all of your audio work on that (away from the system hard drive and swap file). Having a permanent swap file also helps system performance.

But if all else fails, just burn at a slower speed.

~jr

Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun

Reply by: rreid

Date:11/19/2004 10:36:40 PM

I'm burning at the slowest speed possible. The computer is practically new (less than 1 year old).

I'm wondering if it is a problem with the CD burner or with the Acid software. But since I haven't seen a overflow of replies on this, I'm suspecting it is a problem with the CD burner.

Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:11/20/2004 5:48:18 AM

Do you have any other software to test with? Usually a CD Burner comes with some minimal burning software. Even Windows XP has burning software built in. You should be able to render your song as a WAV file. Take that WAV file and drag it onto the CD burner. XP should open a CD burning window where you can say burn this file to the CD. If that (or other CD burning sotfware) fails, it’s the burner. If that works, then it could be something about ACID.

~jr

Subject:RE: Music Studio 5.0 buffer underrun

Reply by: rreid

Date:11/21/2004 2:49:10 PM

Yes, I actually was successfull when using Windows Media Player to burn a wav file to CD. So, the burner works.

Not a huge problem not to be able to burn from within Acid, but I did send a message to Acid Support...

Thanks for all the replies...