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Anyone know how to fix this problem? I have 12 gigs of ram, 1 tb hard drive with about 120 gig fee space on internal hard drive, i hook up my BIAB 2020 to the usb and the softawre staggers when trying to record vocals. What do i do to fix this? I am getting a 6 tb internal drive and am going to have it my main drive cloned. Will this fix my problem having a lot of extra space on the main drive. Any computer techies out there that can help me?
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The normal guideline for hard drives is to keep 15% free space, and you fall below that. Still, I do not think this is your problem.
My first hunch is to look at ASIO buffers and increase them while recording. But you may not even be using ASIO. We need to know a lot more information about your system if we are to help you.
We also could benefit from elaborating on what you mean by 'staggers'. A sound clip would be great.
Is this a laptop? There are some essential tweaks need if so. If not, then always record to a different drive than your boot drive.
Too many unknowns here; I'm just guessing. Help us out.
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What i mean by staggering is this, kind of sounds like a real old records that has lots of static and slows down the music being played. I will try to get some sound byts if possible. The machine is a desktop. Has 12 gigs of ram, hard drive, approximately 128 gigs free on dive c:\ it is a 1 terabyte had drive.
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What is your audio interface, i.e. sound card? Are you using the one that came with your laptop? If so then that could be your problem.
Also is anything running in the background? Things like anti-virus, anti-malware, etc will cause problems. When I'm recording I turn off everything that is not needed, including my Ethernet card.
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up.
Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
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What i mean by staggering is this, kind of sounds like a real old records that has lots of static and slows down the music being played. That definitely sounds to me to be a buffering problem. If you are using an ASIO interface, do try to increase the buffer size. Alternatively, switch to WAS as the audio interface and see if that changes the situation (better or worse), at least that might give some direction as to where to look.
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Very helful i will try this. I usually have my eathernet going at the same time. I have antivirus software going all the time and sometimes I'm logged onto the internet. I'm using a desktop. I am using the soundcard that came with the computer.
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Search this forum about tuning your USB hub and processor speed settings .. i have posted about this before, and so have others ...
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My little tidbit is this. When I got into this years ago I could not afford a dedicated computer for recording. My system had to double as a home computer and multitask. Well here I am almost 20 years later and still using one old laptop to do everything. I had a dedicated laptop but, my everyday system died. So the point is I have rock solid performance recording, playback, etc. why? The key element is the interface. When I started I tried to use the built in sound card. While I tweaked and tweaked, it still would breakdown and studder and such. My wife and I were out one day running errands and I walked into a guitar center, and bought a m-audio sound card. Went home installed it and boom a smooth solid recording experience. I never looked back. I spend several years over at the cakewalk forums and every one that joined complaining about audio issues were using the built in sound card. Once they switched to a dedicated card or interface their problems melted away. Here I am today I use a USB Presonus interface and have it setup up to handle all audio tasks. I never have issues like that. Literally having a true recording interface either Presonus, or focusrite, or any other name brand (although those two are awesome) will take the fight out of this process. I know they are an expense, but if your going to do this. They are vital. Something like this will change the game. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AudioBoxUSB96--presonus-audiobox-usb-96One last note. If you have a 1TB hard drive and only 120 gig is free, you might think of cleaning it up some. Always get off the internet to record, just switch off the WiFi. Stop any background processes that can grab resources. With a PC if you have email it will update while your working. Ever see the little notices float in from the side? Antivirus checking them, etc. I only use Windows defender on my system it runs more “quietly in the background”
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I agree with Rob. The included on the mother board audio interfaces are not made for recording purposes. Depending on what your needs are and how much you want to spend you can get a decent one input audio interface for around $50 USD:
https://www.adorama.com/beum2.html?msclkid=b9643ffbae4d11471c85618f75525705&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BADL%5D%20%5BShopping%5D%20%5BPLA%5D%20-%20%7BManufacturer%7D&utm_term=4581115204161310&utm_content=%7BManufacturer%7D&adlclid=ADL-1d814d8b-1c47-40f3-a2be-4e3179b87524&utm_source=adl-umbase
Personally I would go with at least two or more inputs inputs as you may want to expand and add more instruments or mics.
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up.
Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
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We know he has a desktop computer. Next, as Mario asked, we need to know what is used for an audio interface. That's a big part of "we need more info" that I mentioned. Mario is also right about not using motherboard interfaces for serious audio.
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Had some occasional issues with USB in a desktop PC; in my case i could only finally resolve this by buying an expensive 4 controller chip Sonnet USB (3.0) card so i could dedicate one controller to my RME audio interface ...
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I figured out the problem. My computer had about 10 gig of files on my C drive. I had this problem before but I forgot that it was to many files, all had to do was move the files and it worked fine. I just moved the files to an external 4TB hard drive that I have and now it works fine. I am going to be putting in a 6 Terabyte hard drive and that will take care of the problem. My nephew is going to clone my current had drive to that and my problem should be solved for a long time. I just didn't have enough hard drive space and that was what had caused the problem.
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Remember my first thought, about 15% free space? Perhaps that was it after all.
Unless that drive is an SSD, you should run a defrag on it now that you freed up space.
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