Help needed! Unstable system, freezes, sound-scatter etc.

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piddi: I use audition ONLY for recording synth to wav (or a hole song) and edit them in audition. I do not add effects in audition. I may use some filtering - that I can do in logic too - to finetune the wav-sample. Reverb I do in scope (p100 plate reverb). So to answer your Q - i sequence only in logic (or cubase witch is more stable for some reason). But I even get some scatter when playing my project in logic or cubase - then you can add 1000% when I record til wav in audition or windoes sound recorder (I use it for testing reasons). So when I get the scatter in sound recorder too it must mean it's not "only" the audition thats messing up... But I'll try to change some settings in audition and test it. Thanks for your input !!

valis: I would like to - but will the effects in scope not be left out? (reverb, filters etc).
I can't remember how to record in logic itself - when I try it I "mess" it up :)
Thanks for the input again. I'll test it now and get back .... (alot of testing to do) ;)

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you are probarly right, its not just audition. what i ment was that the problem, as Valis specified, is probarly on the wave driver side of things. i guess you use it both for audition and windows recorder. my guess is that when you increase the latency in audition (and as said earlier, not in ULLI)
the "times 1000%" will disappear, but you will still hear the crackling from logic. please get back as fast as possible, we'll sort this bugger out :)


and regardin the scope effects, no they will still be there. ill try to esplain briefly.

ive never used logic tho, so my tips are based on Cubase knowledge.

- you want to add scope effects to VSTi's: set your scope ASIO source to have, in example, 8 stereo channels. For the sake of ease and explaination, make a corresponding ASIO dest with the same number of channels. THEN start logic. now, in logic, check that the sequencer recognize the ins and outs. you might need to "refresh connections" but i have no idea how to do that in Logic.

Once the sequencer recognizes the ins and outs, you are ready to go. certain VSTi's can be sent to several channels, in example NI Battery lets the different samples go to different "outputs" in the logic mixer. DO NOT mix these up with the ASIO outputs, these are just different channels in the internal Logic mixer.

Once you have organized things in the Logic mixer, you assign the different channels in the mixer to physical output channels. you will probarly see "SCOPE Stereo 1" or similar somewhere, and be able to change this to "SCOPE Stereo 2" (names are not correct, but u get my drift). these are corresponding to the different channels on the ASIO Source module.

Now you have routed what you want into different channels in the SFP enviroment. from here, its all yours. do whatever you want, route it directly into the mixer or to the mixer via effects/modular/synth or whatever. if you route it into the mixer, you can add as many inserts, sends or whatever you want. "No" latency will be introduced.

Now, from the mixer, you can route the direct outs from the mixer into the ASIO Dest channels. these corresponds to the "physical inputs" Logic should have recognized. These inputs can be setup as Audiotracks in logic, so when you hit record, the only the things going into that certain ASIO Dest channel will be recorded. you can record as many channels as you want simultaniously (hardware dependent). ALL THINGS ADDED BY SCOPE WILL BE PRESENT :)

oops this is getting rather long, so we'll focus on your prob first then take the system afterwards :D

sorry for the off-topic :D
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Post by AlienHand »

piddi: Thank you SO MUCH for this input. My cubase seems to run much better than logic - but still, both should run perfectly. Maybe we will talk cubase somewhere else if I get my box up and running 100% ;)

I have so much great input from you guys that I have to split up my testings - luxery situation indeed. I'm spent for today with testing and I'm thinking of installing a fresh win, scope etc., and use all of this brilliant info to optimize my system. So my friday after work will be very interesting. Or maybe I'll just continue trying to get the present system to work... but a new install will only take a few hours and clear up some of the mess I may have created trying to fix the problem :p

Again - thanks to all the guru's in this forum! I am no longer in despair...
(to the testing area)...
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Post by AlienHand »

I would like to say ....

My system is "some what" stable ..

But HUGE problem with recording ...


My problem is 100% as this topic:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... ight=p5w64

Does anyone use this motherboard?

Cheers
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