Strange dropout/starting-stopping when recording

[IRON RAIN]

Its strange because it happens even if a song has only a couple tracks, and only near the end of the song?

Its a Dell Inspiron PC, 32 GB RAM and an i5 processor. Plenty room on drive. I have mixed songs with 30 tracks and had no issues.

Am running minimal other progs, and have disabled Dell services, but no change.

It look like the CPU spikes when it happens, and goes right back down immediately.

No malware/virus, etc.

 

Is my only option to play with the latency setting on my audio interface? Has anyone else encountered this sort of stutter?

Thanks in advance of course.

 

[Promidi]

This from a fresh reboot?

Windows fully patched?

Windows updates pending?

Disabled WIFI?

All Cakewalk/audio folders excluded form realtime antivirus/malware scans?

Uninstalled/reinstalled(Updated if necessary) all drivers (not just audio interface)?

What driver mode, bit depth,  sample rate, buffer size?

Is your audio interface the only audio device enabled?

If it worked before and now it doesn’t - something must have changed.

[John Vere]

It’s always a plug in. 
 

But a CPU spike could be a process running Have you run the Resplendent latency monitor? 

Edited January 23 by John Vere

[IRON RAIN]

Thank you for the quick responses. I have actually done all the things Promidi mentions. (The Scarlett Solo is at 44100 and right now buffer is at 192).

I am removing a couple plug-ins, as what John Vere said is probably quite correct. It seems to be better already. I will have a look at Resplendent latency monitor however.

Thanks again!

 

Edited January 23 by IRON RAIN