hi everyone,

I am new to DP 4.6, I am running it on a 1.67 g4 / 1.5Gb ram, Tascam us-122 interface.

I get an error message stating that the audio playback of what I have just recorded is overloading the processor , even when recording one audio track at a time, in a project with not more than 3 or 4 audio tracks.
The buffer settings are identical to the ones I use with Live 5, Reason, Garageband or Cubase yet I get this kind of messages and a much higher and annoying latency in DP whenever I try to play my instruments (virtual or external) live.

I have tried to play-disable and record-disable EVERY track except the one I am using but this does not seem to work either. I find it hard to believe that this has anything to do with the interface not being a MOTU...Even if the US122 is pretty weak it does allow me to work with every software I have tried out so far...

Thanks for any suggestions.

DP 4.6.1?

DP is notoriously heavyweight (it's getting way better) but with only one track… Are you running your audio from the internal drive? If so, first thing is to use an external firewire drive for the audio files…

Open the Backgound Processing Window

Choose the Background Processing Preferences

ensure that follow settings are set to:

>Wait until DSP analysis is needed
>Never look for beats in audio files automatically

I needed set these settings like this even on a G5, it seems the analysis tasks get in the way with longer recordings >5min.

Hope this helps

S

thanks guys,

lepetitmartien: i am using an external usb2 hard-drive

slexer: i have modified those settings, fingers crossed...