Audio dropouts or crashes during playback

Symptom: After several seconds of playback, the audio begins to cut out, although the transport appears to keep rolling.

Solutions:

Go to Edit > Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings and increase the value of the Buffer Size slider, or adjust the hardware buffer size in the ASIO Panel.

Go to Edit > Preferences > Audio - Sync and Caching and increase the Playback I/O Buffer Size (KB) and Record I/O Buffer Size (KB) values. Try settings of 512, 1024, or 2048 KB.

The current project might have reached the maximum number of tracks and effects the CPU can efficiently handle. For details, see Patching an effect into Sonar causes a dropout.

There may be a plug-in that is causing the project to crash. Try opening the project in Safe Mode:

1.	Go to File > Open and select the project that crashes, but do not open it yet.

2.	Hold down the SHIFT key and click Open.

The File Open - Safe Mode dialog box appears, prompting you to load the plug-ins that are used in the project.

3.	Click No for any plug-in that has been recently installed or added to the project. You can also remove any non-Cakewalk plug-ins to ensure the project will load properly.

 

See also:

Dropouts and other audio problems

 

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