Mr. Torture

How can I reset the view? It’s kinda messed up to where I cannot see to move velocity?  Any way to just reset it back to default?

thanks!!

Never mind, I figured it out. Originally I posted where the themes were kept, 

I will try it again tonight and see if I can replicate it, take some screen shots.

The other day I was trying to fix a slight off time guitar part, I went through the process and everything seemed ok, but when I went to finalize the process (Bounce to clips) the option was not there? The only way I could select bounce to clips was to shut off the audio snap? Which kinda defeats the purpose?

What’s the best way to backup my program so it saves all my track templates etc? 
 

should I back up the entire c drive? 

If you have a send to a buss setup on a track with a reverb in the effect bin and you save the track as a template, will it save the buss & effect along with it?

On 6/13/2022 at 5:57 PM, jesse g said:

One of the major advantages with these newer monitors is, they allow you to hear sounds clear and more distinct than you did 10 or 20 years ago because the technology is more advanced inside of them.  I listened to my KRK's and older Yamaha and the clarity the Frontier monitors  were remarkable and what I heard was cleaner and much better because of the technology that didn't exist 10 or 20 years ago.   I don't blame him for upgrading his 23 year old monitors because the inner parts are 23 years behind the current time.

My thoughts as well.

I have an Ilok usb drive with some licenses on it. Can I move all of them to the ilok cloud and remove the usb? If so, what's the easiest way to do that?

Thanks!

14 hours ago, bdickens said:

What makes you think you have to "upgrade" something just because it is a few years old?

I have done a bit of reading and they say monitors are usually good for a maximum of 10 years. I cannot help but think after 23 years that they may not be operating at peak performance. Plus technology has eclipsed these monitors long ago.

Realized that I posted this in the wrong section, if someone could move the "Gear" it would be appreciated. Thanks!

I have a set of Mackie HDR824's, they are around 23 years old. I think it's time for an upgrade, was wondering what you folks thought about Focal products?

Thanks!

DC offset was unchecked. I opened a project with 4 guitar tracks and one instance of Superior drummer 3 (about 2 gigs drum kit)

set buffers to 128 and it played back perfectly fine.

here is what the engine was doing.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kcaDyp4ZmuY

16 minutes ago, Klaus said:

The expansion cards for the RME AIO don't utilize PCIe (no conducting paths).

But the distortion in your example is really severe and doesn't sound like only buffers dependent.

Could that be a recording of two sources at once with "Remove DC Offset During Record" enabled/checked?

Look in Preferences > Audio > Playback and Recording and uncheck the above option if enabled.
 

Thank you for the information about the expansion, good to know! I will check that setting, but if I simply change the buffers to 256, all that distortion and weird clicking goes away. I just imported in that stereo mix for the example, it would do the exact same thing if I tried to record a single track of guitar.

All audio drivers updated including firmware. Internal sound disabled, windows updates shut off. Everything was optimized from pc audio labs.

computer is nearly 12 years old but runs an i7 processor.

I added the 4 channel RME input expansion in 2017. Problems really began when I upgraded to windows 10. But I didn’t use the expansion a lot until recently. It utilizes pcie too, maybe that’s an issue? Thinking about disconnecting and see what happens.

I am using the RME PCIe card, which is one of the most stable cards in existence. The computer is completely optimized for recording audio, it has been gone over extensively. 

if I run them at 256 it goes away. I have a single audio track playing a stereo mix (24/44.1) and 2 empty audio tracks. No effects or plugs at all running. Sometimes I can do tracking at 128 without this issue, most of the time I get this distorted mess. Any ideas? I am running 32 gigs of Ram and according to the performance meters, it’s barely registering.
 

https://youtu.be/MoFMInaTffE

#36 When I thought my computer problems were over.

Ok, few hours and tried a few sessions, so far everything is good. One other thing I found is shutting of "Dithering" Under the "Playback & recording" tab. That was causing issues as well.

So, When I installed the Ram I noticed it was really dusty inside the computer, I have not cleaned in there in years Yup, easily 8 years.. Yikes.. Anyways, I opened it back up today and took it outside where I blew it all out with my air compressor, being very careful that no condensation or anything got in there. You would not believe the amount of dust and buildup that came out.

I brought it back in, hooked it back up and opened a previous project. I found that I could easily go to 64 on the buffers with no issues at all, loaded another project with multiple guitar tracks and superior drummer, same 64 buffers and no more crackling. Could it have been dust all along?? 

Well, I installed the new Ram and no difference at all. So, I don't know...

Intel core i7-3770k is my processor.

I have experienced a couple blue screen as well. This occurred when I simply left the computer idle with an open session when I went to go do something else. I just shut the computer off and back on again.

the computer came with 16 gigs of ram, upgradable to 32 max. Years after I purchased, once prices came down, I bought 32 gigs (4x8 strips) the computer was still running windows 7 at the time and I had a few issues after that upgrade. I’m really suspecting the Ram, although I ran that ram windows diagnostics and it came back ok.

regardless, for just over a $100 I am going to replace the ram and see if that changes things.

I cannot run lower than 256 on the buffers, I have 2 audio tracks going (nothing recorded) just out of my Kemper into the soundcard and one instance of superior drummer. If I try to lower buffers it’s sounds like a bag of angry bee’s when I strum a chord. It’s frustrating, especially when with windows 7 I could run buffers down to 64, have multiple tracks and instance of superior.

the windows 10 was the auto upgrade through Microsoft, is it possible to go there and redo it?

Drivers all up to date, everything optimized. I bought this computer from PC audio labs, specifically built for recording. It’s never been the same since the upgrade to windows 10.

2 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

What's your present setup @Mr Torture?

12 year old computer, i7 with standard hard drives. 32 gigs of Ram, RME PCIe soundcard. Cannot record under 256 on the buffers.

2 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

 

Thanks all for the positive comments and encouragement. I'm at that crossroads of needing a new computer to continue. Should I spend the money? Or should I just leave things be and move on? It's a hard decision for sure. Not that big of a deal when computers were affordable, but now it's just crazy. I really don't want to get into building one, It's a lot cheaper for sure  but with my black cloud something will ultimately go terribly wrong, lol.