Vegas crash city, any help???

PipelineAudio wrote on 1/28/2001, 11:00 PM
Ok, I finally bit the bullet and tried to record a band
straight to vegas. Yes that right I went TAPELESS!
I recorded 16 tracks in thru my mixtreme, no problem, no
problem at all...GREAT!!!! I could even punch drums as
using " takes " gives me a generous crossfade area.

The problem came when doing vocals...after the drums and
most guitar tracks were recorded, I started recording
vocals. For no reason that I could find, vegas would just
crash, taking out my computer and requiring a reboot.

I thought, well, maybe there are just too many tracks, so I
went all the way down to just the drum overheads and the
vocal tracks. This was way fewer tracks than when I
recorded the drums in, but, still yet, the hard crash would
happen every once in a while...

Any hope? Any tricks

Comments

Jenny_P wrote on 1/29/2001, 8:54 AM
Maybe singing lessons for the performer.

Seriously, I don't believe that Vegas is crashing just
because it's a vocal.

So what else is different?

Are you using a different sound card when you record vocals?

A different input?

A different sampling rate?

Stereo this time and mono before?

PipelineAudio wrote on 1/29/2001, 5:52 PM


Jenny Powell wrote:
>>Maybe singing lessons for the performer.
>>
>>Seriously, I don't believe that Vegas is crashing just
>>because it's a vocal.
>>
>>So what else is different?
>>
>>Are you using a different sound card when you record
vocals?
>>
>>A different input?
>>
>>A different sampling rate?
>>
>>Stereo this time and mono before?
>>
>>

go back and look at the 8 zillion posts I have on this
forum...
I use this app ALL the time for mixing, sometimes as many
as 60 + tracks at once...all of these inputs were used
before, and I think I have over time found and found
workarounds to the many bugs and " features " in this
app...this crashing is whack-o and I am almost sure bug
related
Chris_L wrote on 1/30/2001, 8:00 AM
You're an odd one, biting Jenny's head off and telling her
to "go back and look at the 8 zillion posts I have on this
forum".

You expect fellow users to help you out and you say things
like that!

PipelineAudio wrote on 1/30/2001, 10:46 AM


Chris L wrote:
>>You're an odd one, biting Jenny's head off and telling
her
>>to "go back and look at the 8 zillion posts I have on
this
>>forum".
>>
>>You expect fellow users to help you out and you say
things
>>like that!
>>
>>

I didnt mean it that way, just that I surely have the
basics covered...I am looking for the REALY odd tricks to
work around the bugs.
For instance the one where when recording in sync, it is
best to hit the " chase to sync" button three times after
the recording before going on to the next recording. This
is obviously a bug, and was wondering if there was a
special trick.
Riff wrote on 2/7/2001, 7:42 PM
Pipeline, I am experiencing the very same problem. It
seems once I recorded vocals it was crash city for me
too...I took out some tracks and plug in's, and it crashed
less, but it still ain't stable...Sonic Foundry, why is
this happening???

AMD Thunderbird 1.0
256meg RAM
ATI Raedon 64MB
ABIT KT7-Raid
PipelineAudio wrote on 2/7/2001, 8:40 PM
What a jinx huh? We KNOW logically, that it cant be vocals
per se doing it...but now I gotta add one more to my List
of Hard Disk Recording Superstitions!
RobSoul wrote on 2/8/2001, 1:46 AM
That's similar to a recent problem I...and it's
another "stumper" as to why. In one project, at one
specific point in the song (measure 32, beat 1) Vegas would
crash. I could play from the beginning to measure 31 beat
4.99 and no problems. I could also start at Measure 32
beat 1.01 and it would play fine. But if it ran past that
certain point it would crash instantly. I tried moving all
of the clips later on the time line. But the crash still
happened at the same relative time to the clips. Finally I
dragged all of the tracks (16 in all) down to a fresh set
of 16 tracks. Then I deleted the original set of 16 tracks
and it worked fine for a while. But the bug came back and
the work-around worked again. It was like there was a bug
in a track or something?! Fortunately I was able to limp
through that song and make it work. But I was thoroughly
confused!

Rob
Roybot wrote on 2/9/2001, 11:16 AM
Probably unrelated but I have experienced this problem on certain crossfades. Sometimes I can fix it
by adjusting the crossfade a few milliseconds or so. Other times the only solution is to re-track or select
a different take or portion thereof. I haven't had this problem since I updated the drivers to my Delta's
but that doesn't mean it's solved. Hope you find a solution.