My Eternal Freezing Woes - please help!

piphanz · Post by **piphanz** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:51 am

Dear group,

I have now owned a Creamware Pulsar II card for about 6 months, and it has never been entirely stable. It helped a lot when I replaced my VIA chipset mobo with an Intel D865PERL. But I still have freezing problems, complete with short audio loop.

The easiest way for me to provoke a freeze is to start Nuendo 2.2 and load up the Absynth MIDI VSTi. 80% of the time, this gives a freeze within the first couple of minutes.

I get no freezes without Scope running, or if my MIDI keyboard (A Roland E-28) is turned off.

I added a MIDI filter and monitor in SFP to look at what my keyboard is producing. Zillions of "Clock" readings and a few "Active Sens." readings (the active sens. ones I have filtered out with the MIDI filter. Still I get freezes.)

When I start Scope I get this error messages: "The procedure entry point ?RemoveFromViewTree@GOGraph@@UAEX_N@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library base.dll." and "Cannot load dll: d:/sfp/app/bin/pepbase/pepdisplayobject' (the specified procedure could not be found.)" The specified file exists.

When I load Nuendo I get this error message: "The procedure entry point ?CloseBackgroundProject@ScopeApp@@MAEXXZ could not be located in the dynamic link library RAPI.dll".

These errors come even though I un- and re-install Scope.

It's been a highly frustrating experience to have such a powerful and wonderful-sounding sound card under my fingertips and having it acting in a way that makes it almost (but not entirely) useless. A painfully tantallizing predicament.

I have read http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 12&forum=1 thoroughly and disabled USB and Hyperthreading, etc. etc.

My suspicion is that my MIDI keyboard is filling a buffer in Scope with junk, but since the MIDI filter can't stop it, I don't know what to do.

Please help, good sirs!

Post by **garyb** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:49 pm

first, disable clock and active sensing on your controller.....

piphanz · Post by **piphanz** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 6:28 pm

Is my controller = my keyboard? In that case, I don't think I *can* disable clock and active sensing on it.

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:06 pm

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 2&forum=32

try that

Post by **garyb** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:23 pm

yes, follow the link. also, your keyboard should give you the option of disabling that stuff in the global midi menu.

piphanz · Post by **piphanz** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:29 am

Thanks for the help so far, guys! I would kiss your feet, only that this is the Internet and you're far away, and, well, it's kinda gross.

About turning off the clock and active sensing in my keyboard, it's not an option. It's an oldish keyboard (bought in 1998) with no screen or menus or anything.

Is it time to buy a new keyboard?

Or can the clock things be filtered out somehow? I can filter them with the MIDI filter, but is that enough?

Thanks for everything again, you guys.

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valis · Post by **valis** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:51 am

You would need to filter them with an EXTERNAL midi filter...

piphanz · Post by **piphanz** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:03 am

I see. Where can I get such an external midi filter? And why isn't it enough to put a MIDI filter between "Pulsar2 Midi A Source" and "Sequencer Midi Dest 1" in SFP?