I've had a horrendous session trying to record some multitrack audio in Vegas 5
I had playback going very slow, freeze ups, weird crackling, and, several blue screen of death Windows close downs – something I’ve NEVER had before with Vegas. To make it worse the so called “restored” project that Vegas offered was in fact the previously last version I had saved, and the last track I had recorded before the crash was not only missing from the project, it did not exist on the hard drive even though I’d finished recording and renamed it.
Now I intend tracking this down, but there are many many variables to check out, and I thought someone may be able to save me an hour or two’s work by suggesting an optimum way of approaching this “detective work”
Obviously something in my system could not cope with what I was trying to do, and I would have expected this to have caused stuttering or hesitation, but not complete crashes.
I was only ever recording one track at a time. Playback was max 10 tracks, and even when I muted some to reduce playback to 5 tracks I still got the horrendous lockups and crashes. It plays up both whilst recording and playing back. When I rendered to a new track and soloed that everything was fine of course, but that’s no surprise.
Using XP Pro
Hardware –
Sony Vaio P4 1.6 laptop 512Mb ram.
MAudio Quattro USB Sound card - latest drivers.
Behringer MX 802A mixer
External USB2 7200 rpm 120 Gb hard drive. 5 Gb still free ...
Plenty of space for recording, but I'll try and find another drive to copy everything to in case it's HD related.
Here are the other things I shall try changing, not necessarily in order of precedence. If I discover a “cure” I shall report immediately but I’d appreciate any ideas or advice.
Vegas 5 – is it as stable as V4?
I may try copying each track into V4 – STOP PRESS - this isn’t possible, so I’ll have to render each track to a new wav, but first I'll have to get rid of envelopes, FX and event gain changes ….
FX – Track level effects only – Compression, EQ, Reverb on most tracks.
I've tried bypassing all track FX, but it still misbehaves.
Project settings were 48000 / 16 bit stereo.
Not exactly pushing the envelope, but I could try reducing everything to 44.1 kHz
Other apps - nothing else running that I've opened, but there may be some unnecessary auto running stuff - what's the best way to identify what should be running and what shouldn't?
Sorry for the convoluted post, but I've never had problems like this during 2 1/2 years of Vegas. I do video more than audio, but I have composed 22 track stuff before without problems.
Is there something ese I may be overlooking?
Thanks for any suggestions
Peter
I had playback going very slow, freeze ups, weird crackling, and, several blue screen of death Windows close downs – something I’ve NEVER had before with Vegas. To make it worse the so called “restored” project that Vegas offered was in fact the previously last version I had saved, and the last track I had recorded before the crash was not only missing from the project, it did not exist on the hard drive even though I’d finished recording and renamed it.
Now I intend tracking this down, but there are many many variables to check out, and I thought someone may be able to save me an hour or two’s work by suggesting an optimum way of approaching this “detective work”
Obviously something in my system could not cope with what I was trying to do, and I would have expected this to have caused stuttering or hesitation, but not complete crashes.
I was only ever recording one track at a time. Playback was max 10 tracks, and even when I muted some to reduce playback to 5 tracks I still got the horrendous lockups and crashes. It plays up both whilst recording and playing back. When I rendered to a new track and soloed that everything was fine of course, but that’s no surprise.
Using XP Pro
Hardware –
Sony Vaio P4 1.6 laptop 512Mb ram.
MAudio Quattro USB Sound card - latest drivers.
Behringer MX 802A mixer
External USB2 7200 rpm 120 Gb hard drive. 5 Gb still free ...
Plenty of space for recording, but I'll try and find another drive to copy everything to in case it's HD related.
Here are the other things I shall try changing, not necessarily in order of precedence. If I discover a “cure” I shall report immediately but I’d appreciate any ideas or advice.
Vegas 5 – is it as stable as V4?
I may try copying each track into V4 – STOP PRESS - this isn’t possible, so I’ll have to render each track to a new wav, but first I'll have to get rid of envelopes, FX and event gain changes ….
FX – Track level effects only – Compression, EQ, Reverb on most tracks.
I've tried bypassing all track FX, but it still misbehaves.
Project settings were 48000 / 16 bit stereo.
Not exactly pushing the envelope, but I could try reducing everything to 44.1 kHz
Other apps - nothing else running that I've opened, but there may be some unnecessary auto running stuff - what's the best way to identify what should be running and what shouldn't?
Sorry for the convoluted post, but I've never had problems like this during 2 1/2 years of Vegas. I do video more than audio, but I have composed 22 track stuff before without problems.
Is there something ese I may be overlooking?
Thanks for any suggestions
Peter