help an old timer?

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:39 pm

after a couple years away from this stuff, i have a new computer now (dell xps gen 4), some free time, and was wanting to try out my old pulsar cards with it. unfortunately only have cubase 5.1 anymore and no money for the newer versions of this. I have gone with partitioning my HD and using dual boot setup with all the easy xp tweaks i could find here on the forums for the music OS. Unfortunately am using cubase 5.1 which may be the source of my woes, for it locks up quickly when I start playing a loop. Any ideas? (i have no irq conflicts...)
maybe i should try my old config on music OS: win98se and cubase 5.1, it never used to give me problems like this with my old PII setup...

Post by **garyb** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:35 pm

is a midi controller connected? if so disable midi clock send and active sensing. if you can't disable them, use the midi filter and filter them.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:44 pm

Or if that fails there are some excellent & cheap hosts around such as Traktion, FL & EnergyXT...

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:12 am

Well no actually nothing is connected just yet to midi, and i even tried removing the pulsar midi drivers from my project. i think yes i will investigate fruity loops and others, if you all think that this old version of cubase really is the problem...

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:55 pm

I am running XP, SFP 4.0, and yes you are right stardust because i had problems with traktion and reason when i tried thier demos, not lockups but rhythmic appearing cpu spikes causing distotion pops and clicks to put it mildly. and the problem being my computer because i disabled the pulsar cards and tried the sounblaster audigy card that came with the pc, and still got the same distortion. i have been scouring this forum for fixes to these problems. still a little unclear on some of the technology which is new to me (xp, acpi...). I ended up flashing my BIOS yesterday and now traktion demo seems to be working ok with the soundblaster card. next i will try the pulsar cards and if i get brave cubase. i like what i see with traktion though and may end up buying that program...if anyone else is reading this and has some insight, let me know

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:10 pm

nope, scratch that, cpu spikes have returned!!! what am i doing wrong. any help appreciated and i will send you a check if it works. just strange that im not the only person to have problems after upgrading to a better computer. and a dell xps should work eh? so why not, its their flagship multimedia production model with the beefy power supply, 5 fans, etc. why...why o lord is this happening to me...i cant even go native if its going to be like this!!

Post by **garyb** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:20 pm

check your private messages. i've installed in a few dells..

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:23 pm

stupid question, what is aspi

chippie · Post by **chippie** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:09 pm

Thank you stardust. I have updated these drivers to no avail as yet, and will try those links about aspi. I am inclined to think i will start the whole reformat/reinstall process again this weekend if nothing pans out between now and then. im going to stick with partitioning my drive and dual boot setup with a minimal OS for the music side, but you said above you have a 98se with cubase 5.1 setup of your own, and since those worked well for me in the past (pII comp!!) i think i might go that route if i can find my win98 cdroms. not sure yet though i may try two instances of xp and purchase traction if i cant get cubase to work. dont see much of an advantage there but not sure about newer vstis with old version of cubase, etc. any more advice on these would be appreciated. best regards to all on planetz

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ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:42 am

There should be no problem with newer VSTIs together with Cubase 5.1. Because it´s all Asio 2.0.

It is just a thought, check your BIOS settings, maybe there is a conflict with your RAM clock, is it set to the right speed?
Try to set the RAM clock to automatic.

Beside this, I had no problems with Cubase 5.1 and Win XP.

Good luck.

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:01 am

Chris

Im running a SCSI drive for my audio..I just read this thread and discovered these so called ASPI drivers??
Should i go looking for some for my SCSI drive and upgrade them or somthing, I dont understand it at all....advanced scsi stuff..wow

cheers
-Me$$iah

Post by **garyb** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:59 am

do you have a problem? if not, then you need nothing.

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:10 am

You need ASPI drivers only, if you can't read AKAI CDs in SFP.

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:23 am

sweet

I was loathe to change the SCSI drivers on my comp cos it took me for ever to get them as stable as they are, and now it runs smoothly I didnt wanna have to start again ..

But I thought then, for a moment that it was needed for scope to run properly or summat ..
Tho my scope seems to run pretty cool too

all is cool

cheers
-Me$$iah

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