musicalweather
Senior Member
Am under pressure with a project and am suddenly getting problems with bouncing to disk in Digital Performer. Instruments cut out for a fraction of a second. I seem to get the beginning of notes; the dropouts occur after the onset of the note. Hard to know what in the chain might be causing this. I've never really had this problem before.
I'm on a Macbook pro (Sierra, 16 GB of ram) using Digital Performer 9.51. All my sample libraries are on a PC connected via VE Pro 5 (most updated edition). The PC has Windows 7 Pro and 32 GB of ram. My audio interface is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. The Focusrite is somewhat new to my studio.
The library I'm using is EWQLSO, and I'm on Play 5.0.5. Please note that the playback in Digital Performer seems to work fine, though when I play the full orchestra, there seems to be some dropout toward the end. But when I solo individual tracks, they play back perfectly.
I'm wondering if it has something to do with the extremely fast tempo I have. It goes from 248 to about 325. (That might seem frenetic but it doesn't actually sound that fast, as the instruments are essentially playing one note per measure.) The dropouts in the bounced tracks occur throughout the tracks, not just toward the end.
I also wonder if it might have something to do with having loads of tracks in this sequence. I actually used a different orchestral library at first, then made new tracks with EWQLSO. I disabled the VE Pro instance with all those tracks, so I can't imagine that's causing the problem.
I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot this, so I'd really welcome any suggestions you might have. Here are some things I've tried:
Thanks for any troubleshooting advice, suggestions, brainstorming.
I'm on a Macbook pro (Sierra, 16 GB of ram) using Digital Performer 9.51. All my sample libraries are on a PC connected via VE Pro 5 (most updated edition). The PC has Windows 7 Pro and 32 GB of ram. My audio interface is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. The Focusrite is somewhat new to my studio.
The library I'm using is EWQLSO, and I'm on Play 5.0.5. Please note that the playback in Digital Performer seems to work fine, though when I play the full orchestra, there seems to be some dropout toward the end. But when I solo individual tracks, they play back perfectly.
I'm wondering if it has something to do with the extremely fast tempo I have. It goes from 248 to about 325. (That might seem frenetic but it doesn't actually sound that fast, as the instruments are essentially playing one note per measure.) The dropouts in the bounced tracks occur throughout the tracks, not just toward the end.
I also wonder if it might have something to do with having loads of tracks in this sequence. I actually used a different orchestral library at first, then made new tracks with EWQLSO. I disabled the VE Pro instance with all those tracks, so I can't imagine that's causing the problem.
I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot this, so I'd really welcome any suggestions you might have. Here are some things I've tried:
- increasing the buffer size of the VE Pro plugin in DP to 4 buffers
- changing the bounce format to deinterleaved SDII. I was using interleaved SDII before. Doesn't seem to have changed anything.
- I watched the CPU usage in VE Pro while playing back the entire orchestra. It doesn't get much higher than 30%. Likewise in DP, the processing meter is very low.
Thanks for any troubleshooting advice, suggestions, brainstorming.