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poneman
poneman
Participant
March 1, 2017
Question

Adobe Audition CC 2015 - Horrific Buffer Issue

  • March 1, 2017
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So 90% of the time Audition works flawlessly. Great DAW and all. But one project causes massive latency/buffer issues. Slow/choppy/distorted sound.

My equipment is below:

Intel i7 3770s 3.9GHz

24GB DDR3 Ram

Presonus FP10 Firewire interface

Sonnet FireWire PCI card

Windows 10 Pro

I can't imagine with my specs computer performance is an issue. In fact, I've mixed larger sessions with the same setup before (I have a similar project in presonus one that is working just fine, even with a ton of processing heavy plugins).The session in question is a 30tk live recording, with a handful of plugins.

The things I've tried:

  • Changing every buffer/latency setting I can think of
  • Turning off effects for every single track
  • trying different interfaces (M-Audio Fast Track Ultra, and an old tascam somethingsomething mkII)
  • turning off all my network devices
  • closing every other open application

Things to note:

  • Even though I've allocated up to 20GB for Adobe CC, my ram usage peaks about 8GB when playing back the session.
  • My processor runs at 35% load during playback.
  • I am using the normal ASIO driver straight out of Audition.

Anyone have any idea where I can start troubleshooting? I'm almost certain that this is a PEBCAK issue...

Thanks!!!

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Bob Howes
Bob Howes
Inspiring
March 1, 2017

Well, you make this a difficult one because you've tried all the basics I'd normally suggest.

I do have a nagging hunch this could be driver related.  I just checked the Presonus site and, as I suspected, the FP10 is a discontinued product and the most recent drivers only go up to Windows 7.

You don't mention if you're using specialist drivers for your experiments with the M Audio or Tascam units but I'd make sure I had the latest M Track driver and try again.

I'd also try pre-rendering any effects rather than turning them off--if you not used this feature before, it's the little lightning bolt icon below the effects rack.

Finally, I hate to say this, but I've heard of similar problems caused by a hard drive starting to fail with bad sectors that happen to be where you files are located.

ryclark
ryclark
Participating Frequently
March 1, 2017

I also notice that you say you are using CC 2015. We are now up to CC 2017.2. There have been a lot of changes and bug fixes since 2015. So I would suggest that you update to the latest version. I also wonder why, since you have Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, Audition hasn't at least suggested that you update? The CC app usually lets you know about any new version.

poneman
ponemanAuthor
Participant
March 1, 2017

ryclark  wrote

I also notice that you say you are using CC 2015. We are now up to CC 2017.2. There have been a lot of changes and bug fixes since 2015. So I would suggest that you update to the latest version. I also wonder why, since you have Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, Audition hasn't at least suggested that you update? The CC app usually lets you know about any new version.

Yes... It's not idea. I am using the software in an institutional setting. For some reason when I had our IT dept install CC on our workstation, they installed 2015. I dont know how our bulk licensing works, but at work we (the end users) aren't actually able to log in to CC to see the subscription details. 

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