Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge Posted by: apoc55 Date:3/23/2001 4:54:02 PM I have a Sony VAIO SR17 notebook which came with SoundForge 4.5(i think). One of the purposes of buying this machine was so that i could record my original tracks into wav files and then convert them to MP3's. However, each time i try recording, the sound files are plagued by 'skipping'(missing data of short length in time) at random points in the file. The laptop is a pentium 3 700Mhz with 128MB RAM. It has a 40GB hard disk. I've tried shutting down EVERYTHING other than Sound Forge, turning off virtual memory, and upgrading the sound drivers with no improvement! ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Subject:RE: Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge Reply by: Doug_Marshall Date:3/23/2001 8:47:51 PM Try increasing the "Total buffer size" setting in the Options/Preferences/Waves section of the program. This should help unless the skipping is caused by a conflict in your system. Also, in the same "waves" section make sure your input and output settings are for your sound card and not Microsoft Sound Mapper. Don't know if that makes a difference but it might. - Doug
Subject:RE: Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge Reply by: recordpusher Date:3/30/2001 4:51:02 PM I have had the exact same problem when using 4.0. A lot of my recordings "Skip". I just bought 5.0, hope this works better.
Subject:RE: Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge Reply by: Sonic Date:4/16/2001 12:37:15 PM Some audio drivers expect certain record buffer lengths (typically multiples of 4096). If this unspoken rule is broken, some drivers will gap on record. Really, there should be no length assumption, but it is unfortunately common practice. We'll take care of this in the next update. It should fix issues with a number of audio cards.

Subject:Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge

Posted by: apoc55

Date:3/23/2001 4:54:02 PM

I have a Sony VAIO SR17 notebook which came with SoundForge
4.5(i think). One of the purposes of buying this machine
was so that i could record my original tracks into wav
files and then convert them to MP3's. However, each time i
try recording, the sound files are plagued
by 'skipping'(missing data of short length in time) at
random points in the file. The laptop is a pentium 3
700Mhz with 128MB RAM. It has a 40GB hard disk. I've
tried shutting down EVERYTHING other than Sound Forge,
turning off virtual memory, and upgrading the sound drivers
with no improvement! ANY suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!

Subject:RE: Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge

Reply by: Doug_Marshall

Date:3/23/2001 8:47:51 PM

Try increasing the "Total buffer size" setting in the
Options/Preferences/Waves section of the program. This
should help unless the skipping is caused by a conflict in
your system. Also, in the same "waves" section make sure
your input and output settings are for your sound card and
not Microsoft Sound Mapper. Don't know if that makes a
difference but it might. - Doug

Subject:RE: Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge

Reply by: recordpusher

Date:3/30/2001 4:51:02 PM

I have had the exact same problem when using 4.0. A lot of
my recordings "Skip". I just bought 5.0, hope this works
better.

Subject:RE: Please help: Skipping when recording in sound forge

Reply by: Sonic

Date:4/16/2001 12:37:15 PM

Some audio drivers expect certain record buffer lengths
(typically multiples of 4096). If this unspoken rule is
broken, some drivers will gap on record. Really, there
should be no length assumption, but it is unfortunately
common practice. We'll take care of this in the next
update. It should fix issues with a number of audio cards.