Terrence Reilly

I did all the recording at once, using the same settings. The pitch and temp drop gradually. Am using the Soundcraft driver. This is the only recording where I've had this problem, it's not shown up on any other sessions.

This is strictly an analog 8 track recording, no MIDI.

System Specs: Intel 17-8700 @3.2Ghz, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia High Def Audio, Soundcraft signature series 12 MTK, running Windows 10 Pro. I tried to create a template today, without using any effects from a "virgin" set of tracks, and all is well. That does not help me to recover the "bogus" recording though. Is that even possible?

I just recently started using templates. I created the latest one using a previous recording session - 8 track, input assignments made, and effects applied from the previous session. The recording seemed to progress slowly, with the later songs taking minutes to complete recording, after the song was actually complete. Playback was not possible without exiting and restarting the program due to the audio driver dropping audio. Playback was amazingly awful. Each song would start out ok, but drop pitch and tempo as the song progressed. I'm talking whole tone(s) drops with an associated drop in tempo. I never expected this from a digital recording, it actually behaved like an analog recording on a machine with bound up drive motors. I think the problem might have been caused by the way I created the template, I will experiment with that later on today. I'm more interested in trying to save the existing recording. I've added buffers, enabled cache, de-fragmented the drive and also bundled the session to de-fragment it. I also cancelled all effects in the hope of reducing system latency. Nothing worked. Is there any hope of restoring this awful sounding session?