Audio Dropouts help!?

Hi forum,
Hope someone can help me out with this as I'm working on a big project with a deadline...  Strangely ceratin tracks are dropping out here and there for no apparent reason.  Unfortunately, I can't muck about with the buffer settings as East / West symphonic orchestra plugin only works at 256 and Process Buffer Range small...
Any suggestions on what it could be and what I can do to fix?  Thankfully, this isn't happening on other projects at the moment, even large ones...
Cheers,
Jack

Hi Eriksimon,
Appreciate your advice, I have a Fireface 800.  EWSO's timing goes awry at higher buffer setting, example, fast violin notes with say a staccato articulation won't work at higher settings.
I also use a virus TI plugin which I believe also requires the 256 and small setting.
I'll try bouncing in place and report if that works or not...  Im also going to try changing the buffer setting to large, that might not be a problem for the EWSO, though it will be a problem with the virus, however, I'm going to be selling the virus soon anyway, so that's not a problem...
Cheers,
Jack

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