DP crashes when finding beats!

[Tesionman]

Hey ya'll!

75-80% of the time DP crashes(quits unexpectedly) when finding beats in selection in the Waveform editor.
This has been happening to me since version 7(I'm on 8.04) and in different computers.
Happened often on my old Macbook( OSX 10.6.8 ) and also with my new Macbook Pro(OSX 10.8.3). I'm running DP at 32bits.

Does this happen to you guys? Or is there any way to fix it?

I'd have the Beat Analysis always on but it slows down DP. I prefer to find beats manually only when I need to on certain tracks.

Cheers

[Maxx]

Yes, it's happened to me, lots. (DP 7.24)

I found a solution to stop crashes - but it takes a while - you guessed it:
Choose, Find beats in ALL soundbites Option in the waveform editor. It takes a while. The computer heats up like crazy while finding beats - so I put a fan on it as it takes hours to process.

For me, it's better to enable find beats asap in DP preferences.
It's easier in the long run and DP pauses Find beats while recording and resumes when it's done.

No crashes. Hope that helps.

Hey ya'll!

75-80% of the time DP crashes(quits unexpectedly) when finding beats in selection in the Waveform editor.
This has been happening to me since version 7(I'm on 8.04) and in different computers.
Happened often on my old Macbook( OSX 10.6.8 ) and also with my new Macbook Pro(OSX 10.8.3). I'm running DP at 32bits.

Does this happen to you guys? Or is there any way to fix it?

I'd have the Beat Analysis always on but it slows down DP. I prefer to find beats manually only when I need to on certain tracks.

Cheers

[Maxx]

just to clarify, DP crashes on me (for some reason) when finding beats on select soundbites
DP doesn't crash when choosing find ALL beats in all soundbites.

[Sean Kenny]

just to clarify, DP crashes on me (for some reason) when finding beats on select soundbites
DP doesn't crash when choosing find ALL beats in all soundbites.

Not that it helps much, but I have the same thing here, never managed to figure out why.

I'll watch this post with interest, thanks for flagging it

Cheers

Sean

[Maxxy]

Hi there

Such a great list this....thanks always

I was inspired by the "How does DP do this thread" and the videos in there which I'd never seen... really great

I haven't used Find Beats for quite a while but have certainly used it many times over the years without problem

I decided to tighten up a 14 track jam session after seeing the great results shown in the video

So I temp grouped the relevant section and edited all the tracks to to be exactly the same in terms of their start times and durations

I then selected the Kick Drum track and went to the Waveform Editor... set Soundbite to selection, then Beats>Find Beats in Selection

The progress bar starts up and appears to be doing its job but just as it finishes processing the selected soundbite DP crashes.

I tried this on other soundbites in the song I'm trying to analyse....same result. i switched from DP 9.02 to 9.12 just in case that made a difference...unfortunately it doesn't.

So after searching Motunation here this thread is where I'm at.... it seems the answer, as of 3 or 4 years ago, is to analyse the entire project!

This project happens to be over 60 GB of material!....hours and hours of multi-track jams sessions... I have started the bulk analysis as recommended but, as you can imagine, progress is glacial. Background processing is churning away and after about 12 hours of high intensity CPU work I estimate I am not even 10% of the way through this!! ) :

Obviously this is an untenable state of affairs.... is this a bug...or am I missing something? I followed the directions in the DP User manual precisely I believe

As this thread never got happily resolved I'm wondering if this is a very old bug....and if so why it hasn't been addressed. Short of leaving Analyse Beats on all the time in Preferences can Find Beats be implemented manually and occasionally as needed? ...

I know I could load the relevant bits into a new project but that is a workaround I would hope isn't necessary

Surely there's a better way?

There doesn't seem to be much clamour about it here so my experience at the moment would seem to be unusual....but not unique..... I hope I've missed the answer somewhere

Thanks for your help

[Maxxy]

Hmmm

I might have been a bit hasty there....it seems to be working fine now.....not sure....perhaps the restart sorted it

Will see how it goes ...but seems to be user error here....

Thanks

[Phil O]

It's back. I am crashing consistently in DP 9.52 when selecting Find Beats in Selection in the waveform editor. Sent crash report to MOTU.

Phil

[stringtheory]

ugh it's happening over and over again here today...sending lots of crash reports!