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March 9, 2020
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Adobe Audition 2020 Randomly stops recording

  • March 9, 2020
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Hi guys,

 

I run a Dell XPS 15 (2018) 1TB SSD 16 GB RAM 64-bit Windows 10 operating system, and I'm having trouble recording my podcast. I usually have my laptop connected to the Dell XPS dock via USB-C and the dock also has a 4K monitor connected to it via HDMI.

 

In terms of audition, I record in multitrack mode, and I'm usually recording myself and another guest on my Roland Rubix 44. What I usually do is I open the audio hardware, change the drive to ASIO and then find the Roland Rubix for the output and input. Then I arm each track onto a Mono track Line 1 and 2.

 

I put my computer in airplane mode last time to see if it would make any difference, and it didn't... it still stopped recording a few times during a one hour conversation.

 

It has been so incredibly frustrating as it really interupts the flow of the conversation and it's embarrassing with my guests. I was wondering if you could recommend some things to try to resolve this issue?

 

I have a feeling it has to do with Windows Sounds...  but I don't know how to fix this issue... I saw a member had said to use an interface with its own driver... and I thought the Rubix had its own driver so I wasn't sure.

 

In terms of where I'm recording to... I've tried all sorts of methods... I've had the Disk Cache on various external drives and on the local drive while recording to either the local drive or to an external hard drive... I've tried every arrangement and various combinations and it still randomly stops.

 

Any suggestions would be great as I know my machine and the interface are very capable to do basic multitrack recording... I just need to understand why it keeps stopping!

 

I really appreciate the help! 


Thanks everyone!

 

 

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 9, 2020

Here's a page of stuff you should do to your machine to optimise it for audio If you do a search using the term 'optimise Windows 10 for recording', you'll find more. Try these suggestions first, and if you still have problems you'll have to do some resource monitoring, which is a little more involved.

Participant
March 10, 2020

Hey Steve,

 

I've done this... not the same optimization guide, but I followed one from FocusRite... It looks like the one I haven't tried was to update ALL the system drivers. I've definitely updated a lot of them since purchase in Sept 2018, but I'm sure I haven't done all of them. Will try this when I get home, but besides that, EVERYTHING is optimized and I still almost had worse problems yesterday in my tests.

I opened the Roland Rubix Control Panel and played around with the settings... it's silly because they have them numbered from 1-8, which changes the sample rate and buffer size... but there is no guide or legend to let you know what the numbers mean. At any rate, I pretty much tried them all, even with a buffer size of 2K and awful latency it was still stopping. I didn't even get a single recording longer than 20 minutes yesterday in my tests.

 

Oooooof, this seems ridiculous considering in 2005, on a packard bell computer I was recording audio a lot easier than I am right now.

 

Thanks for your help!