DP8 locks up when using count off to record

[mljmusic]

Hi,
Has anyone encountered DP 8 counting off in record mode and then stopping? The record is still active and the notes pile up at the same spot .

Macbook Pro 13 Early 2011
10.7.5
2.3 I5
8GB Ram

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Been using count off w/MIDI w/o any issues.

[Gravity Jim]

No problem here, either... no matter whether I use a MIDI or audio click, it works just like it always did.

[mljmusic]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. MOTU suggested I do a reinstall, but it did not help. The count off will only work with the audio system turned off (MIDI Only). Count off with or without recording will not work otherwise. So far, MOTU cannot recreate this scenario.

Thanks,
Jon

[vspiegel]

Yes, mine just started doing that as well. I can't figure it out. I've gone through the Commands, the memories, the syncs... I can't figure out why... and I've been using DP for 10 years. Anything to do with a specific software or other app?

[Guitar Gaz]

I have used this a lot in the last 2 weeks and have not had any problems - I will look out for it but so far no issue - I am on 64 bit with Reason rewired to DP8 recording through Pod Farm2 plug in and others running like Superior Drummer. So it is not just DP8 running.

[Marian]

Hi,
I have exactly the same problem. Sometimes DP crashes when I hit count off button. No matter 32 or 64bit. Very frustrating.

Cheers

Marian

[SeikoT123]

I am having the same problem. Just got DP8 and installed it last month, and when going through the beginner DP tutorials that come with the installation disk (i.e., loading the ready-made templates for those tutorials), and using a 1 or 2 bar countoff to record MIDI (as instructed in the tutorials) recording stops at the end of the countoff. When I turn off countoff and just start recording from measure 1, recording works just fine.

Very frustrating. (Fyi, I posted on this separately in this forum but haven't received any responses yet.)

Hoping someone might know how to fix this....

[bouzouki]

I've had the same problem since I installed DP8 - I've tried about everything I can to rectify, with no success yet. Any ideas??

[Shooshie]

I'm experiencing a problem; not sure if it's the one described.

When using a countoff of any length, at the end of the countoff there's a pause of about 1 second, after which it begins recording. It would be almost ok if the pause was in time with the countoff, but it's not related to the countoff in any way. It just stops for a moment, then suddenly it begins.

The computer doesn't lock up or crash. Nothing like that. Just a pause, as if someone clicked the pause button on and off, and then it continued recording. When it begins recording, the click sounds wrong. Hard to catch the beat. If I start it a bar before I want to record, and have it click throughout, then I can work around it, but it's still not the way DP was designed to work. I'm surprised they haven't caught this and fixed it.

Shooshie

[Shooshie]

Found the source of the problem: Automatic Plug-in Latency Compensation. (Setup Menu/Configure Audio System/Configure Studio Settings/Automatic Plug-in Latency Compensation)

Turn off APLC, and it doesn't stop after Countoff, before recording.

It doesn't matter whether plugins are set to run at realtime.
It doesn't matter if you turn off the pre-fill buffer setting.
I can't find any other settings, anywhere, which affect it.

If you remove all your latency-causing plugins (especially look-ahead compressors), the problem goes away.

One workaround is to set up an empty mix for recording. Switch to that mix when tracking. Switch back to your main-mix for mixing. But it's a work-around. DP isn't supposed to work that way, and MOTU needs to fix the problem.

Shooshie

[mesayre]

I am encountering this problem on Windows 10x64, but turning off delay compensation does not fix it for me.

Anyone know if this still exists in DP9?