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Audioon 7/9/2002
With all my wisdom, I have used up too much space on my 30 Gig hard drive
I typically archive everything to removable drives except initial takes or other files that clearly won't be of any use. . . ever. Storage is quite affordable now, so its easier to not get into deciding what stays or goes. Of course its extremely important to organize all media in a logical manner. ;-) drbam
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Audioon 7/8/2002
Vegas vs Cakewalk/Cubase/etc.
<<What can you automate in Vegas besides volum and pan?>> Assignable efx. drbam
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Audioon 7/1/2002
Apple acquires Emagic
<<I love Vegas, and with a few additions, it could reign in the PC world.>> I feel the same. I think Vegas is great. . . but because of SoFo's recent focus on video market I am nervous about the future of Vegas, at least for my audio only application. I've been considering adding Sonar to my system to kind of "hedge my bets" in this regard. drbam
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Audioon 6/27/2002
Please allow audio CD burning in next update of LE 3.0 !
<<Perhaps you could suggest to SonicFoundry that a "DAO CD Burning plugin" should be made available for VV LE 3 for a modest fee.>> Great idea! And ideally the plugin should work in ALL SoFo apps. drbam
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Audioon 6/21/2002
Recording live drums
Getting a *good* drum sound is one of the most difficult tasks on the planet! There are soooo many factors and variables involved, not the least of which is having a good drummer and one who knows how to tune the drums properly. And you have to determine what "kind" of drum sound you're striving for. With that said, the only suggestion I have in your situation is to experiment a great deal with your mic placements. Try ANYTHING! You never know what might get it happening for you. And try placing the kit in different areas of the room. Compression (sometimes radical) is pretty standard on drum kits. However, I'm a drummer and I like a very "open" and "wide" sound most of the time, so I generally only use compression on the kick and snare and use some decent condensor mics (mostly AKGs) about 8-10 inches above the toms with some overheads blended in. No tape or muffling on the toms! drbam
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Audioon 6/17/2002
Windows XP & Vegas
<<Is your post the result of problems you've run into with XP or problems you anticipate and wish to avoid? I'm a bit confused by your posts? You speak as though you've lost production time due to the switch. Is your system down . . . not performing acceptably or what? You really did your research on this, and, it appears to me that you really took a good course of action. What specific problems are you trying to address?>> Thanks for your response Caruso. I was referring to the old adage "if it works don't fix it" relating to my decision to try a new OS in the middle of a project which in hindsight was in my opinion a "dumb" (or "less than smart") decision. 98SE worked fine and I regret that I didn't wait to do the XP upgrade. I suppose I got seduced by all the posts that raved about XP being faster, more stable and overall a better OS which I'm sure it is once its sorted out and tweaked. You obviously are fortunate that your install worked right away. So, yes I have been in XP hell for 3 days now and I will have lost about 5 days of production time minimum (I'm a recording musician with a fairly nice project studio). Today I'm taking it back to my tech to try and sort everything out. Without getting into all the details, XP went into a crash/reboot loop that required a force crash to stop it. Booting off the CDR and all the usual strategies didn't fix it and it wouldn't allow me to reinstall. My system is a dedicated DAW, no old programs, all Sonic Foundry apps, all of the latest drivers, etc. Clean and lean. It obviously could be the new system drive but XP *appeared* to be working fine with it until I started loading the apps: Vegas 3.0a, Sound Forge 5.0f, Acid 3.0 (whatever the latest is), and the latest Echo Layla 24 driver. I'll post the results of what I find out. Again I appreciate your supportive comments. drbam
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Audioon 6/16/2002
Windows XP & Vegas
<<< And its clear from the research I've done that the newer AMD CPUs are the preferred choice of many professional DAW users and undoubtedly offer more bang for buck.>>> <<Oh ..."professional" DAW use. Uhhh....ok. you sure you're "clear" on that info?>> I'm as clear as I can be from the research I've done during the past 9 months or so on this, which has involved extensive searching the net for articles, reviews, forums and other tech stuff, combined with as much personal discussion as I could obtain from folks I respect and know a lot more than I do about this stuff. Obviously I don't have the final word or perhaps even the correct information and I didn't mean to infer that I did. I qualified my statement with "its clear from the research I've done . . ." That being said, I appreciate your original response regarding AMD's apparent inferiority to Intel and will consider it as I'm trying to sort this crap out. All I'm doing is trying to find some answers from folks who have more experience and knowlege than I. You may indeed be correct . . .and obviously from the perspective of your personal experience and research, you are. <<Drink horsey...DRINK God*&(*(& !!>> I don't have a clue what you're saying here. . . drbam
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Audioon 6/16/2002
Windows XP & Vegas
<<Best route is to research teh apps and cards you want, and you'll find yourself gravitating towards Intel I'll bet.>> JoeD Thanks JoeD. I doubt I'd go with Intel tho. There's absolutely nothing installed that should be problematic. I really did my homework on this. The system worked great with 98SE and and *should* be stable with XP. And its clear from the research I've done that the newer AMD CPUs are the preferred choice of many professional DAW users and undoubtedly offer more bang for buck. I'm sure Intel would be fine but it doesn't make any sense to this just so I can try to get XP to work. I upgraded to XP because of an older system drive failure and since I had to reinstall everything, it seemed like a good idea at the time . . .which of course was in hindsight a dumb decision! I'll have lost at least 4 days of studio time because of this fiasco. One lesson I hope I've learned from this is to NEVER install anything new into the system unless I've got adequate time (a week or two) to deal with all the potential problems that may result. I'm an old hardware head, so it was never a problem to patch or try new things experimentially. I absolutely love the infinite possibilities that are available on a DAW but this compatibility/stability issue makes me crazy!! Thanks for putting up with my rant. ;-) drbam
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Audioon 6/13/2002
HELP! An Exception has occurred (again and again)!!
<<That's a good test, start removing plugins. Just muting them, won't do the trick because they're still in the signal path of processing, just not making any sonic changes when you mute them. >> Rednroll: I'd like to communicate with you about this off-forum. Some related issues have come up that I think you may be able to advise me on but the thread would probably go off topic. Thanks! drbam drbam@cableone.net
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Audioon 6/11/2002
HelpPlease !! Vegas 3 crashing AGAIN!!
Here's some info that I failed to include in my original post: System (dedicated DAW) Vegas 3.0a, Acid 3.0, Sound Forge 5. Only Vegas was open with the crashes occured. Windows 98SE AMD 1.33 Tbird CPU Asus A7V266 motherboard 512 meg DDR ram IBM (4.5 gig) 7200 SCSI system drive IBM 7200 IDE 40 gig data drive Layla 24 interface (latest drivers). Here's the error details: VEGAS30 caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff7b9f6. Registers: EAX=7fc39e61 CS=0177 EIP=bff7b9f6 EFLGS=00010202 EBX=048fffbc SS=017f ESP=04800000 EBP=04800028 ECX=048ffca4 DS=017f ESI=00000001 FS=3c47 EDX=00000001 ES=017f EDI=81d96a54 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 57 89 65 e8 75 04 33 c0 eb 54 85 c0 74 4b c7 45 Stack dump: 00000001 048fffbc 7fc39e61 00000001 048fffbc 7fc39e61 048ffca4 bffc05b4 bff79250 ffffffff 048ffcb4 bff7ce23 7fc39e61 00000001 7fc33046 7fc39e61 I very much appreciate anyone's help!! Thanks! drbam
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Audioon 6/2/2002
HELP! An Exception has occurred (again and again)!!
<<If you find it is a particular plugin, it's a good idea to write sonic Foundry's tech support and inform them of which plugin and the version number, so they can fix the bug. >> Actually I'm pretty sure I've located the problem and it does seem to be a corrupted file (track), or something similar, that's somehow tied to the volume envelope. I muted each track one at a time until I was able to isolate the crash being related to one track. When I deleted the volume envelope from this specific track, I could not reproduce the crash anymore. I haven't a clue why this occurred but I'd sure like to know how it happened! It makes me damned nervous! ;-) Anyway, everything has been running ok since I did this, and I've been pushing the system hard all day. However, I haven't yet experimented with inserting another volume envelope in that track. I had to move on to tracking other songs and will get back to this later. I'm still very much interested in anyone's input though! Thanks, drbam
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Audioon 6/2/2002
HELP! An Exception has occurred (again and again)!!
<<What plugins are you using in this project? I would expect a problem with a particular plugin, rather than an envelope. Also how many tracks are in your project and approximately how many events (ie how many splits). >> Thanks for your post Rednroll. Not many plugins as yet. Waves verb and delay on assignable bus (delay was muted when this happened) and some track eq. I use a lot of outboard gear for efx and processing. There's less than 20 tracks running. These are long (15 min) trance tracks (continuous events). Very few splits (4-5). I'll check on the plugin issue but I doubt its the amount of plugins I'm using. Perhaps a problem with one of them? I was able to run this kind of project with no problem on a much weaker system (PIII 450) late last year (although I did hit the wall occasionally). ;-) Thanks again. drbam
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Audioon 6/1/2002
HELP! An Exception has occurred (again and again)!!
Update #2: In other Vegas projects (songs) I can select the envelope edit tool and everything seems ok. No error messages (at least with this latest and quick check that I did on 2 other projects which included doing some envelope editing). In the project where the problem occurs, I discovered that I can continue editing envelopes if I DO NOT choose the envelope edit tool to do this. So could it be that I have a corrupted file or something in this particular project that is now connected to the edit tool? Weird. . . I would love some help. . . from you too SoFo! ;-) Thanks, drbam
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Audioon 6/1/2002
HELP! An Exception has occurred (again and again)!!
Here's an update. I tried reinstalling Vegas 3.0a but no fix. I discovered now that EVERY time I select the Envelope Edit Tool this error occurs. So it seems to be getting worse by the minute!! I can play the project fine. . . no problems that I can tell. I'd appreciate some suggestions ASAP. THANKS!!
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Audioon 5/18/2002
What's the Official Word on Plextor 40x Burners?
>>I just bought a PlexWriter 40/12/40A about a month ago.<< Rahl, what's your system setup (OS, mobo, etc)? Thanks! drbam
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Audioon 5/18/2002
cracking and scratching in vegas
I've been using 98SE with Echo Layla interface(s) in every version of Vegas since its inception and never have experieced what you describe here. drbam
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Audioon 5/13/2002
Applying External Effects to a Recorded Track and Re-recording To New Track
<When you play, the track that you want to process will be routed to the outboard unit, processed & then returned to be recorded onto a new track. You will hear the EFFECTED version of the track. If you want to compare Effected to Uneffected versions, simply change the routing of the buss between digital and analog. Of course, this assumes that you can route a digital signal thru your effects unit.> You can obviously do this the old analog way as well if you use an external mixer. In most cases I just record the efx return signal (either from one or more tracks) into a new separate stereo track ("print the effects"). This gives me more flexibility later when working on the mix. drbam
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Audioon 5/8/2002
hard drive setup for analog recording
<If youre serious about recording, you need to ditch win98 for win2k which is light years more stable.> This statement is not really accurate. There are way too many other variables related to stability than just the OS. Although *generally speaking* win2k may show better stability in *some* real world situations, 98SE still dominates most PC based DAWs but this is beginning to change because of winXP, not 2k. I've been using 98SE for over 3 years with hardly a hiccup. 99% of any problems I've encountered were related to other issues (drivers, bad files, or something stupid I did, etc). Keep the system lean (no unnecessary apps, etc) and 98SE can be rock solid. I hope a SF rep will also comment on this. drbam
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Audioon 5/1/2002
Does Sonic Foundry make a multitrack audio editing application?
<Lol, I have to add this one on the top of my collection of "stupid posts" list. HELLO!? > Well, I don't know Rednroll. . . in light of SoFo's most recent marketing approach with V V3, I think the post is pretty valid and certainly underscores many of the criticisms and concerns some of us have posted regarding SoFo's commitment to Vegas *Audio.* In other words, if a person isn't already quite familar with Vegas, as it stands now, one would really have to read the "small print" and probably ask around a lot to determine if SoFo actually offers a "multitrack" recording application (just as artfilms did here). drbam
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Audioon 4/29/2002
Breaks in playback and RAM/Disk meters
You may have to lighten your plugin load, and/or render (submix) some of your tracks. Also, experiment some with the the playback buffer. I had a 450 PIII w/ an ultrawide SCSI drive for the system, an 7200 IDE drive for music, and I still had to make sure I was running everything pretty lean with 20+ tracks in a project. Lots of submixing and I also took advantage of using "non-realtime effects." I think a 450 Celeron is pretty marginal for multitrack projects.
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Audioon 4/28/2002
Athlon XP or MP?
I recently upgraded to an AMD T-Bird 1.33 & Asus A7V266 MB (w/98SE). Fast and stable so far. I've been told (and have read in several forums and elsewhere) that AMD is by far the most your $. drbam
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Audioon 4/26/2002
digital mix bus vs. outboard
I certainly can see the advantages noted in this thread for eliminating an external mixer. It makes sense. However, I can also see the advantages of using one (as noted here as well) and that makes sense to me too. So, when considering both sides, the obvious question that comes up for me is why do ALL of the high end studios spend enormous amounts of money (often more than $300K + per unit) for external consoles?? I can't imagine its just to enhance the visual impression of the studio ("eye candy"). drbam
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Audioon 4/22/2002
quasi-stereo effects
Hi imac: Could you provide a url or other contact for "digilog" (Blue plugins)? I tried digilog.com but it doesn't seem to be the right place. Thanks! drbam
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Audioon 4/19/2002
Asio?
<Let's keep the opinions geared toward Sonic Foundry products, and not each other... Again I respect both of you guys, would surely miss reading both of your creative posts if someone decided to leave the forum. Take a deep breath, and go on and foget about this!> I agree!! Please, lets keep this professional, respectful and most of all, helpful! Take what you can use, leave the rest, and get over it! If someone's posting is "triggering" you in some way, then fine, but please take it somewhere else - it clearly doesn't belong here. I've gotten some good tips from both of your postings but this latest bit of petty, personal crap is really over the top in my opinion. If this were a moderated forum both of you would have been booted some time ago and all of us would be the losers. C'mon, lets make some music! drbam
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