Recording Gaps in Reaper W/ Presonus StudioLive

[criscore]

When I record multiple tracks of audio from my StudioLive periodically everything seems to freeze in reaper (the meters,the now time marker and the time counter) then after about a second or two it keeps on recording. When I try and play back the recording the audio will be missing from the time Reaper froze. I was able to record without problems from a Zoom H2 and a Presonus Firebox in Reaper. I can also record from the Studiolive with no problem in Sonar 8. I have tried messing with the audio settings in Reaper with no success. I also tried turning off Wi-fi (by the hardware switch on the laptop) which still didn't help the problem.

I have been recording to MP3 files instead of WAV to save space for archiving purposes (I record really long multi track sessions every week) but I believe I got the same results trying to record to WAV as well.

Does anyone else have this problem or anything like it. Any one have a solution or something I could try? Thanks.

I have:
Presonus Studiolive 16.4.2
Asus N50V Laptop w/
Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 @ 2.54GHz
4GB Ram
I'm using Reaper v. 3.04
and Presonus universal control 1.11 drivers.

[dub3000]

first off, upgrade to 3.05 straight away - 3.05 runs way better than any of the other 3.0x releases and is more stable as well.

once you've done that, use dpclat to see if something on your system is blocking audio. check here for info on how to do that: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...ghlight=dpclat

also, you realise saving to mp3 is impacting on your audio quality? ogg (at high quality) or ideally flac are probably better compressed options, if a bit heavier on cpu.

[Frogs]

Hello,

I have the exact same problem, wether I'm recording 4 or 16 channels. I use reaper 3.13 and the latest driver and universal control. I've tried modifying the buffer, sample rate,... . It doesn't help, and the odd thing is it happens randomly (no apparent event triggers it). I've also tried with Capture and Presonus's newest DAW, Studio One (which is awesome, by the way) and the problem dissappears. This is why I tend to think it's a clock problem between the DAW and the device. I also use a toneport ux2 and have no problem with it.

Core Duo
4gb ram
Vista 64 bits.

[manning1]

criscore
here we go again...laptop..
read my comments bout laptops on these forums..most consumer lappies are pretty bad from my testing for serious demanding daw use.
your gonna have to do some tweaking.
i assume your recording to the slow internal hard drive ??
that win OS resides on ??
also run dpc as previously mentioned n report back.
i really wish people would buy laptops properly designed
for audio work.

[jamieskeen]

And also get the service pack 2 upgrade, I couldn't record reliably with service pack one using vista and kill some of the background services, there are a ton that have no real purpose IMO.

[kirk]

I would suggest you buy a firewire express card with the T.I. chipset and try it. I had similar issues with presonus's vfire and that solved the problem for me. If you look at some of the audio laptop builders websites they recommend using one as their laptops come from the factory with one.