Processing on a NION will pause during project deployment. Therefore, a NION that is a Conductor will stop being the Conductor for a time. The network will then automatically transition to a new Conductor. Conductor transitions will cause momentary audio dropouts. It may therefore be desirable to designate a non-NION device to be the CobraNet Conductor.
Additionally, if using XDAB, clock disruption caused by a change of Conductor may often cause the NION cluster to re-sync (re-arbitrate) the XDAB clock and will result in a dropout of several seconds.