
It turns out it was only Rapture Session instruments dropping out - GPO4 Aria instruments were fine. MediaGary, you were actually super helpful and I believe, quite close to the answer. I've tried turning Intel SpeedStep off, but still dropouts.ĭoes anyone see anything wrong with my setup? Perhaps it's one of my Sonar preference settings, perhaps it's my computer, I honestly don't know anymore :'(Īfter months of investigating and time spent becoming a computer nerd u I have, thankfully, figured out the issue. Intel Graphics Power Plan: Max Performance USB Selective suspend setting: Disabled I've tried disabling all network adapters in Device Manager, bluetooth, and have made sure all USB Root Hubs have "Allow computer to turn off this device to save power" unchecked.
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Graphics/sound/Focusrite drivers have been updated.
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I have no Alienware specific software running - ended them all or disabled them in Task Manager LatencyMon (attached imgs): says no problems :( tried connecting via USB 2.0 and 3.0 at the back, no differenceĭPC Latency Checker results (attached img): always a little above 1000us In Performance: Audio processing ~2.49%, Disk space 63GB, System Memory Usage: 5.8GB (39%) Preferences (buffer/latency settings) are attached in images.

I don't believe it's a USB problem sinceĪlienware Aurora R5 desktop, brand new from winter 2016ĪLL of my data/installs are on my 256GB SSD (I do have a SATA but it's completely empty) This can happen very quickly, even immediately upon starting playback, but usually happens every few seconds per instrument. Inside the DAW, the little green volume/sound indicator for the instrument that cuts out does indeed show the individual instruments are making sound, but then suddenly each rapidly drops to no sound when it cuts out. Sometimes two things cut out around the kind of the same time. Like the guitar might cut out, but everything else continues, and then something else drops out but the guitar comes back. Any help would be appreciated.Īfter adding ~ 8 instruments to my project, and playing back some simple music recorded with a MIDI keyboard, I'm finding that during playback, random instruments will randomly drop out for 0.5-1 second. I've gone around and searched and tried almost everything I believe possible but have not been able to stop the dropouts. I'm very new to digital music - started around last winter but constant dropouts have kept me from composing.
