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rodzprod wrote on 2/10/2000, 2:59 AM


Carl German wrote:
>>I am starting to experience fairly consistant lockups and
>>crashes. This is a bummer after spending all that $$$. It
>>is the only SF product that I have trouble with.
>>Can Anyone help me out with this?
>> Thanks, Carl

I've been using vegas and sound forge 4.0 for quite a bit now, and I'
m experiencing 10 crashes a day with vegas, none with sound forge 4.0.
Vegas definitely not meets sounic foundry quality standard....too bad
it is their most expensive software.

Rod
CDM wrote on 2/10/2000, 8:37 AM
I use Vegas for about 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week and I experience
maybe a handful of crashes a week, if that. I'd say that's pretty
damn good. Remember, this is a version 1.0 software and the company
is well aware that there are always performance issues that can be
improved. That having been said, keep in mind the incredible
simplicity of the design, the intelligence of the architecture, and
that these guys actually RESPOND when you complain. I've never dealt
with a company that is so dedicated to making a great product even
better. These guys know what they're doing, so give them a little
time to iron out some of the "1.0 blues". There's a lot to consider
on your own system that might be causing system hangs and many bugs
are already reported here. Check your video drivers, sound card
drivers, and general system health.
Find me another 1.0 software that functions this well and is so
powerful and I'd be really surprised.

Carl German wrote:
>>I am starting to experience fairly consistant lockups and
>>crashes. This is a bummer after spending all that $$$. It
>>is the only SF product that I have trouble with.
>>Can Anyone help me out with this?
>> Thanks, Carl
pwppch wrote on 2/10/2000, 9:32 AM
Carl:

Can you offer any details on the crashing?

Peter


Carl German wrote:
>>I am starting to experience fairly consistant lockups and
>>crashes. This is a bummer after spending all that $$$. It
>>is the only SF product that I have trouble with.
>>Can Anyone help me out with this?
>> Thanks, Carl
pwppch wrote on 2/10/2000, 9:33 AM
Rod Rod:

I read your ealier post. Any details you can offer? FX, hardware, etc?

Would like to help....

Peter


Rod Rod wrote:
>>
>>
>>Carl German wrote:
>>>>I am starting to experience fairly consistant lockups and
>>>>crashes. This is a bummer after spending all that $$$. It
>>>>is the only SF product that I have trouble with.
>>>>Can Anyone help me out with this?
>>>> Thanks, Carl
>>
>>I've been using vegas and sound forge 4.0 for quite a bit now, and
I'
>>m experiencing 10 crashes a day with vegas, none with sound forge
4.0.
>>Vegas definitely not meets sounic foundry quality standard....too
bad
>>it is their most expensive software.
>>
>>Rod
karlc wrote on 2/10/2000, 12:35 PM
We have almost no crashes where Vegas locks up, blue screens, or
reboots the box since the last two updates, but we do get some
strange behavior on ocassion when using SF's FX across output busses
when mixing.

I've also seen a sudden jump to extreme hard drive usage for a few
seconds when using some FX, leaving the application unresponsive for
20 or 30 seconds .. in particular the Chorus FX's "hard flange" on a
fretless bass part always seems to cause me some periodic gapping.

This could be due to the fact that we only have 128 MB memory in the
DAW and IDE UDMA hard drives ... and Win98's memory allocation can
get crosswise with itself after prolonged use ... rebooting almost
always solves the problem.

Personally, I can't wait for MOTU to come up with Win2000 drivers,
mainly because of that OS' better memory management. I am running
Win2000 Professional RC2 on my laptop and it is SOLID as a rock. I
suspect Vegas is going to do well on that OS, expecially with the
Dual Processor support.

I'd say that 90% of other problems we have experienced in the past
were driver issues with the MOTU sound card, particularly if another
application like CuBase had accessed the MOTU during the same session
without rebooting. Since we rarely use Cubase any longer, those
problems have disappeared.

I do notice that WaveLab 2.x is subject to barf quickly if Vegas has
been in prolonged use in the same session ... again, sounds like a
Win9x memory/sound card driver access issue to me. Reboot and no
problem with WaveLab for hours at a time.

All in all, Vegas gets some hard use around here and it has been far
more trouble free than CuBase or other multitracks we auditioned
prior to making the decision to go with Vegas.

KAC...

Charles de Montebello wrote:
>>I use Vegas for about 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week and I experience
>>maybe a handful of crashes a week, if that. I'd say that's pretty
>>damn good.