bought VDAT and now I have big problems

[Stige]

Everything went fine until I saved my VDAT project and then opened it.

Every time I open a VDAT project, and press play first time, I hear horrible distorted white noise or buzz. That happens in random VDAT tracks. So far I've tested with 16 tracks. when I press several times locator buttons, the sound gets normal.

When I open a VDAT project, VDAT starts automatically playing back (with that horrble noise), even though the project was saved when VDAT was not playing. Also sometimes the REC button is flashing too at the same time. And I haven't touched anything
But sometimes when I open the same project, it won't start playing it back automatically. this seems to be happening randomly.

Once happened that VDAT somehow erased it's tape file (.vtp), and that definitely wasn't my command. After that, I tried to create a new tape file, but it refused to create it. I had to restart SFP and load new VDAT to make it working again.

Sometimes when I open a VDAT project, VDAT has no GUI, there is a strange box with fields to enter text/numbers

Sometimes VDAT won't save my locator information with the SFP project.

If I record from STS-3000 to VDAT, I get random digital clicks to the recorded tracks. Not tested yet properly if I'm getting clicks with other recording sources too. Didn't notice them when I recorded analog in.

Previous problems happens with or without VRC-128/VRC-S. But if I open a project with VRC, sometimes it won't find any VDAT devices even though they are connected properly. when I look VDAT interface, it has turned itself to master, although it should be slave.

My SFP4 has been working perfectly, only VDAT seems to be living it's own life. No need to say that I'm feeling very disappointed . I have tried to re-install VDAT several times from SFP4 installation files, and downloaded it independently from creamware site too, but no help. I don't think it's a corrupted project either as I've tried to create several VDAT projects from empty template.

I guess I can't share these problems with others as searching these forums didn't show any results of my problems. I guess I should report to creamware, but I doubt they would fix anything that only one user is experiencing.

I go now and continue my desperate fight. I'm afraid, more to come


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Stige on 2004-08-06 09:02 ]</font>

[Music Manic]

Sounds like somethings interrupting activity.What's running in background?If its causing erroneous commands,then maybe keyboard is faulty.

[BingoTheClowno]

Dou you have enough space on the hard drive? Have you tried to delete the old tracks?
Have you allocated new tracks?

What system do you have (hardware and OS)?

[Stige]

Thanks for the replies.

When I've noticed weird behaviour, I've tried to delete all, project file and VDAT tracks. I have plenty of h/d space.

I'm running Windows XP Home, only necessary services on background, no other programs. It's ACPI mode with APIC

My PC is following:

-ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (all optional disabled. Both pulsar II cards have their own IRQ in bios level)

-AMD 2400XP
-Radeon 9600
-512MB quality memory
-Hitachi h/d (formated as NTFS, 64k cluster for audio data)
-Pulsar2 Z-link
-Pulsar2 XTC
-UAD-1
-Antec 550W PSU
-Plenty of air conditioning

It happened again, VDAT tape file was erased by itself, among other bugs. My h/d is not faulty. Everything was perfect before VDAT.

I'm confused

[BingoTheClowno]

Are the CW cards connected with a cable, if yes, they should have the same IRQ (if you can set it).

Second guess, is write behind caching enabled for your hard drives? If yes, disable it. (this is in Device Manager->Drives).

[at0m]

I'm experiencing some problems just like Stige.

Projects load and VDAT is playing noise. Solution: lower mixer faders or mute monitors. Press Stop and Start again.

When I use VRC-128 in heavier projects, it kinda randomly arms tracks. This makes that recorded tracks are muted in the best scenario, and in the worst case they are overwritten when VDAT is recording. This is a bit lousy heh.
Solution: I delete VRC-128 from heavier projects (just as I start to need it for grouping etc), or at least back up the recordings.

Still, VDAT can play only a fragment of channels of Cubase, before going thru the roof with CPU usage.

DMA and caching are enabled for the disks, and all possible STDM connected.

[ChrisWerner]

VDAT?? What is that, why you bought it?
Sorry to be so looking down at VDAT, but what the hell is the advantage compared to any Sequencer prog?

Sorry to be so, naive...

[BingoTheClowno]

Check this discussion Chris:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=5&72

[Stige]

I've found two solutions what comes to avoiding playback noise problems.
1. Unload tape completely (settings panel) before saving the project. But it's some bother to load it back again when opening the project.
2. Record with 32-bit. This seems to cure it too.

Chris, it's more primitive approach to work, but in the best case I can do everything inside SFP, I'll get the best sound quality and I have no other choice than play *well*


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Stige on 2004-08-06 16:42 ]</font>

[marcuspocus]

On 2004-08-06 16:39, Stige wrote:
I'll get the best sound quality and I have no other choice than play *well*

you said it

[bassdude]

amen.