AA 3.0 hesistates on playback

its verys strange , after pressing the play button AA 3.0 will hesitate before actually playing back. I'm on a Core2 Duo, 2.67 ghz, 2 gig ram, 3 drives etc, WinXP Pro service pack 2. Reaper on the other hand is immediate. Its almost like its buffering before playback. Are there any settings that may control this?  Anything that may explain it?

thanks in advance

No ideas? I would think I have a very common setup, nobody's bumped into this before?

thanks in advance,

My machine's smaller and slower than yours, but it plays back immediately.  I haven't tried it yet with big sessions though.

Its almost like its buffering before playback. Are there any settings that may control this?  Anything that may explain it?

Buffer sizes?

Paul

Buffer sizes?

Which buffer had you in mind?

FL Studio (Fruity Loops) allows you to increase the buffer size when things are running a bit slow. The Audition equivalent of buffer size doesn't seem to allow you to change the size though.

As far as the Audition Windows Driver is concerned, on my laptop you can click on the control panel option and get to the DirectSound setup, and the buffer size and offset are adjustable there. Even though the whole line for playback is black, you can click on those two parts of it and alter the numbers for these. You can't do this for the rest of the line's parameters, though, as they are fixed by the hardware.

Which buffer had you in mind?

Whatever playback buffer is accessible...  it might be easier to say something useful if we knew what soundcard and driver were being used.

Paul

Paul -
Its almost like its buffering before playback. Are there any settings that may control this?  Anything that may explain it?

my Motu 424 is set to 64 samples , but I meant more like mp3 streamers buffer

I seemed to have mangled the quote on my last post*. As far as my sound card specs I am running a MOTU 2408mkii via a new PCI Express 424 card. I'm just trying to playback one audio file in edit mode. Both Reaper and Acid Music Studio , start playback right away. The incoming fle is a 24 bit file i.e. I launch it from Reaper. I guess I have not tried running the AA demo project, when I upgraded to 3.0 it did not show up by default.

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my Motu 424 is set to 64 samples , but I meant more like mp3 streamers buffer

Are you sure you're actually using the ASIO driver in Audition - could you be using the WDM driver (via Audition Windows Sound) by mistake? 

Paul

Are you sure you're actually using the ASIO driver in Audition - could you be using the WDM driver (via Audition Windows Sound) by mistake? 

I certainly changed to point to the Motu ASIO drivers, btw, did I mention that this occurs while in "edit" mode i.e. in the editor , I have yet not checked how it works on the multi-track. Is it possible AA is doing some sort of conversion of the 24 bit file to 32bit every time I press play in the editor? I'm going to run some better tests i.e. like load the demo project into the mult-itrack and report back.

I get the same problem on a 3ghz Quad Core.
It seems to manifest itself after I have been working with it for a while.
More obvious when you zoom in on multi track

As far as the Audition Windows Driver is concerned, on my laptop you can click on the control panel option and get to the DirectSound setup, and the buffer size and offset are adjustable there. Even though the whole line for playback is black, you can click on those two parts of it and alter the numbers for these. You can't do this for the rest of the line's parameters, though, as they are fixed by the hardware.

I think you solved my stuttering problem. In the control panel, I tried looking for an adjustable slider for the buffer, and found none. But I was able to change the buffer setting by clicking on it and typing in a new value.....(1024) and the stuttering I was experienced stopped.

So hallelujah.

I had the same problem but fixed it by installing a 10,000rpm Raptor hard drive.  It grabs those large files and runs real fast