Subject:sound forge

Posted by: rastabean

Date:3/3/2000 6:16:00 AM

havin' a hell of a problem here...when i record something in
sound forge...it seems to work fine and then after 4-5
tracks, it seems to randomly skip...i've tried everything
from all the various video setting (resolution, colors),
hardware acceleration ect ect. i have a top notch system
and there are no conflicts what so ever

i tried a different video card and two sound cards and it
still does the same thing


Asus P2B-S (w/ adaptec 2940U2W onboard)
2x 9.1gig Cheeta Seagate HDD
384MB RAM
Pentium III 500
windows98
Digital Audio Card D (and i tired the Card Deluxe too)
ATI 8meg AGP Video

i can't figure out what it could be...if anyone can help me
it would be greatly appreciated

it seems to be doing it randomly..i tried contacting the
guys at sonic foundry but they told me to try different
resolution or the hardware acceleration

no luck...i know almost for sure it's a software setting but
what.

you can reply here or to my email address

thanks

Subject:Re: sound forge

Reply by: RickZ

Date:3/3/2000 9:40:00 AM

Don't know if you have MS Office installed, but it has a utility
called FastFind that periodically makes sure it knows where your docs
are, and just jumps in and runs. Also Scheduler can jump in there.
Just a guess . . I've disabled both of those.

Also, on the CardD+, the older one, being an ISA card requires you to
reserve an IRQ for it in ControlPanel\System\DeviceMgr right click on
Computer to get Properties, Reserve Resources Tab. Newer CardDeluxe
is PCI PnP, can share IRQ's no problem.

Hope this helps . .
Rick Z

riaz wrote:
>>havin' a hell of a problem here...when i record something in
>>sound forge...it seems to work fine and then after 4-5
>>tracks, it seems to randomly skip...i've tried everything
>>from all the various video setting (resolution, colors),
>>hardware acceleration ect ect. i have a top notch system
>>and there are no conflicts what so ever
>>
>>i tried a different video card and two sound cards and it
>>still does the same thing
>>
>>
>>Asus P2B-S (w/ adaptec 2940U2W onboard)
>>2x 9.1gig Cheeta Seagate HDD
>>384MB RAM
>>Pentium III 500
>>windows98
>>Digital Audio Card D (and i tired the Card Deluxe too)
>>ATI 8meg AGP Video
>>
>>i can't figure out what it could be...if anyone can help me
>>it would be greatly appreciated
>>
>>it seems to be doing it randomly..i tried contacting the
>>guys at sonic foundry but they told me to try different
>>resolution or the hardware acceleration
>>
>>no luck...i know almost for sure it's a software setting but
>>what.
>>
>>you can reply here or to my email address
>>
>>thanks
>>

Subject:Re: sound forge

Reply by: JanW

Date:3/17/2000 9:40:00 PM

Presumably has nothing to do with SF, but with non-optimum driver,
device & system settings. Suggestions:

Minimum installation, Office Find Fast & Bar, Screensavers, wired
network, virus killers, etc, uninstall, disable, turn off while
recording. Disable startup of files upon logon. Make sure there's
nothing walking around in the system (remote network through modem:
ok).

Windows settings
, , , - disable autoinsert
notification.

, , , - disable
write-back caching for all drives

, , , - disable
it (you got massive RAM, so why page). If scary, set min and max
pagefile size to the same value.

Make sure that pagefile.sys sits on the same physical drive and
partition as W98. Also make sure the audio goes there (avoid writing
it on different physical drives.

With two cheetahs it is tempting to make stripe volumes, etc. -
forget it. Fastest file system is still FAT16 used on small (max 1
gig) partitions. (you might be better off with one, big cheetah).
Have you got the right SCSI controller & miniport drivers? Adaptec's
latest may cause trouble, v3.01 is o.k.

Edit c:\windows\system.ini using wordpad. Find [Vcache] header, edit
to make it look like:

[Vcache]
MinFileCache=98294
MaxFileCache=98294

This keeps your file cache constant size 25% of RAM.

Jan


riaz wrote:
>>havin' a hell of a problem here...when i record something in
>>sound forge...it seems to work fine and then after 4-5
>>tracks, it seems to randomly skip...i've tried everything
>>from all the various video setting (resolution, colors),
>>hardware acceleration ect ect. i have a top notch system
>>and there are no conflicts what so ever
>>
>>i tried a different video card and two sound cards and it
>>still does the same thing
>>
>>
>>Asus P2B-S (w/ adaptec 2940U2W onboard)
>>2x 9.1gig Cheeta Seagate HDD
>>384MB RAM
>>Pentium III 500
>>windows98
>>Digital Audio Card D (and i tired the Card Deluxe too)
>>ATI 8meg AGP Video
>>
>>i can't figure out what it could be...if anyone can help me
>>it would be greatly appreciated
>>
>>it seems to be doing it randomly..i tried contacting the
>>guys at sonic foundry but they told me to try different
>>resolution or the hardware acceleration
>>
>>no luck...i know almost for sure it's a software setting but
>>what.
>>
>>you can reply here or to my email address
>>
>>thanks
>>

Subject:Re: sound forge

Reply by: titan

Date:4/16/2000 5:50:00 PM

I was going to say the same thing that Jan had posted. I had the same
problem and had to disable those items. It works fine now.

riaz wrote:
>>havin' a hell of a problem here...when i record something in
>>sound forge...it seems to work fine and then after 4-5
>>tracks, it seems to randomly skip...i've tried everything
>>from all the various video setting (resolution, colors),
>>hardware acceleration ect ect. i have a top notch system
>>and there are no conflicts what so ever
>>
>>i tried a different video card and two sound cards and it
>>still does the same thing
>>
>>
>>Asus P2B-S (w/ adaptec 2940U2W onboard)
>>2x 9.1gig Cheeta Seagate HDD
>>384MB RAM
>>Pentium III 500
>>windows98
>>Digital Audio Card D (and i tired the Card Deluxe too)
>>ATI 8meg AGP Video
>>
>>i can't figure out what it could be...if anyone can help me
>>it would be greatly appreciated
>>
>>it seems to be doing it randomly..i tried contacting the
>>guys at sonic foundry but they told me to try different
>>resolution or the hardware acceleration
>>
>>no luck...i know almost for sure it's a software setting but
>>what.
>>
>>you can reply here or to my email address
>>
>>thanks
>>