Topic: Help! Roland R-44 DROP-OUTS (Skipping)

[JasonSobel]

I will echo the sentiment of others here in that you should always use good, reputable SD cards.  Worth every penny and makes a big difference.

indeed, the memory card is not a place to skimp.  that said, in the original post, he said that he was using a SanDisk Ultra.  SanDisk is one of the best companies making flash cards, and the Ultra line should be fine.  it's possible that he has a fake SanDisk card (particularly if he bought from ebay),  but the SanDisk Ultra cards are great cards.  and he says that they are relaitvely "slow" at 15 MB/s.

Two channels of 24/96 PCM audio is only 0.55 MB/s.  If you double that to two channels of 24/192 audio data, that is still only 1.1 MB/s.  heck, even if you double that again for 4 channels of 24/192 audio, you're only at 2.2 MB/s.  My point is that all of this is well below the stated spec of the SanDisk Ultra card of 15 MB/s.

Based on this, assuming it's a genuine SanDisk card (and assuming the card itself is not malfunctioning), I would guess that there was some other cause behind the drop-outs, and it's not a simple matter of the "card not being able to keep up".

[F.O.Bean]

Have you switched to 24/48 or 24/44 and had the same problems