Software or Computer Issues?

[Mark J. M.]

I have been having a few problems come up while sequencing songs. First issue is running S3 at 1/4 speed. The software will work fine at that rate for awhile but if it continue to use that speed, the playback will become strange. It will be faster than 1/4 speed but not full or 1/2 speed either. Sometimes it is slower than full speed but not 1/4 speed sometimes faster than full speed. This occurs when I use play selection to find a beat or other point in a song. I do not think it is a computer issue since the sound card on the computer does not have issues with other programs that I use at slower than normal speed. But I am not sure.

A second issue also involves finding a point in a song. If I am looking to start an effect at a certain beat/sound in the song and I use play selection at any speed, two possibilities occur. If I make a selection that already includes the sound, and try to go back to the beginning of the sound, the result will be different than if I start with a selection without the sound and go forward. The timings in are not the same. By waveform, I think the one going forward is the correct timing.

Lastly, when I try to advance the screen one timing at a time by using the cursor keys, the program always skips forward more than one timing. However, if I want to go backwards, I can move one timing at a time.

I am using a Dell Core i5 2.4 Ghz laptop with 6 GB of memory and Windows 7 64 bit. The sound card is an IDT High Definition Audio CODEC, the standard card for this computer.

I cannot correct the last two issues but the first one is resolved if I exit 1/4 speed and play the selection at full speed, then return to 1/4 speed.

None of these prevents accurate sequencing but are more af an annoyance. Thank you for any help you can provide.

[George Simmons]

What kind of audio file are you using? If mp3, is it a constant bit rate (LOR prefers 128) or is it a variable bit rate? If variable, you need to convert it to constant using an audio converter program.

[jerrymac]

I have had this happen to me a lot when using 1/4 speed. I have found that saving the file closing then opening LOR fixes the problem for a while then restarts after using 1/4 speed for a number of times (same sequencing sessions). seems to have something like memory leak?

[Mark J. M.]

Thanks, sorry I forgot to include that detail. All of the audio files I use are 128 constant bit rate mp3s. Converted using audiology. I will try converting these to wav files and see if I still have audio issues.