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Friscko Friscko is a male

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I'm trying to record some things with audacity, but some where every 14sec's it skips parts of what u're recording.

So I was trying to put the synth-line from Yazoo's dont go from my md-recorder to my pc, but while recording in audacity, around that 14th second, there's a piece missing.

Is it my 200mhz computer?

So how do i get it to only run the neccesary things and audacity so i dont get that missing piece?

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20-08-2005 17:45

cynik

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it might be a buffer issue.. for recording your pc uses a buffer which depends on your physical memory. how much do you have?

its used for temporary storaging until is written to the harddrive

once the buffer fills up (buffer underrun) there is no space in which to put that permanent data... so my guess in your case it gets lost

maybe you can tweak it out if audacity has those settings. like increasing the buffer size or sumething like that

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20-08-2005 19:16

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Originally posted by cynik
it might be a buffer issue.. for recording your pc uses a buffer which depends on your physical memory. how much do you have?

you mean RAM-memory? 64mb
but i dunno, with the soundrecorder from windows it's possible, but the quality is shit then. And audacity seems to kill static from the moment you start it, since if u start it the statci suddenly reduces to almost zero, wich is not the case with the soundrecorder

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20-08-2005 19:22

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Could be the bus or the harddisk too.

Either the harddisk is too slow to write all the recorded stuff in time, or the bus gets stuffed with too much info before it's transferred from the RAM to the harddisk, so stuff gets lost...

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20-08-2005 20:18

Friscko Friscko is a male

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So actually audactiy is just trying to tell me i defenitly need to buy a new computer Big Grin

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20-08-2005 20:26

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Yep.

I bult a completely new one for my siter last week. €334 (without the screen, keyboard and mouse, which she kept from the old one) so that should be manageble, no?

My next soundcard is gonna cost that much Tongue

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20-08-2005 20:28

Friscko Friscko is a male

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I saw an Acer laptop with and amd 2800+ for €750 in fnac lately.
That looked nice to me Cool

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20-08-2005 20:38

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It's definitely a buffer issue. If you wanna solve this, go Ctrl+Alt+Del, go to Processes tab and select the audacity.exe process.

Right click it, set priority to above normal.
That should solve the issues...

If u don't have Win XP..well then... try killing as much background progs as possible... Smile

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20-08-2005 22:20

Friscko Friscko is a male

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Originally posted by Muad'Dib
If u don't have Win XP..well then... try killing as much background progs as possible... Smile

I'm on win98, so i just close every thing in the ctrl-alt-del menu, and if it doesnt work anymore, press ctrl-alt-del two times? Big Grin

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20-08-2005 22:25

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OK here is something you can try other than buying a new pc: In the audacity settings window (file/preferences) (bestand/voorkeuren in dutch version), go to the tab quality, and set the bitrate to 16 bits instead of 32floating point. Most probably your minidisk recording is also 16bits or even less, so there is no use in using more. Since it's not floating point, it will save your cpu some more complex calculations, and it takes only half as much of your memory. In the worst case you will now have glitches every 28 seconds Wink

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20-08-2005 23:00

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Originally posted by djfreemc
...In the worst case you will now have glitches every 28 seconds Wink

Yeah, that's acceptable, isn't it? Hihi

22-08-2005 00:23

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