unexpected quits: reason n DP5.1

martian · Post by **martian** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:53 pm

unexpected quits wih reason version 3.05

will start up and work for approx 5/1 mins

seems to be crashing when I use keyboard to remote control reason sliders....

going to go back and try 5.01 to see if any better

had this a couple of time now.

dual 2gig G5 3.5 Gig RAM.... 10.4.3

martian · Post by **martian** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:52 pm

well in 5.1 seems a bit better - went for an hour or so - actually did some work.....

It just quit again - it seems to happen when recording - I suspect the glitch happens as I hit record- as no sound will come thru rewire...

Wondering if this is an issue with the native driver for my FW1884...

noticed some weirdness with the transport lights stying lit..

Actually I think this crash happened after I used the transport on there for the first time, then used the numeric keypad after that.. then the crash occured... tho not sure how long after was concentrating on making some noise!

I've been editing a movie so this the first time I used DP for a coupke of months...

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:57 pm

I had a crash tonight when the FW buss un lached from the IO.

Using RME IOs

iMAS · Post by **iMAS** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:02 pm

I'm still in 5.0 and can't remember the last time it crashed (despite some weirdness with the MIDI).

martian · Post by **martian** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:54 pm

well updated the FW again now latest version ( tho wasn't much out of date..)

still occuring in 5.01 ... didn't use the tascam remote at all - actually I might remove the control surface and see if that helps....

I had turned off the MIDI thru and was using the direct connection to reason....

or might go back to version 5 then...

just wanna finish the job u know? This crash is happening when I start recording....

martian · Post by **martian** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:55 pm

version 5 crashed straight away on starting to record...

mmm - this is the tenth crash I've had today.

I think that's the number of times 4.6.1 crashed on me ever..

Dam I wished I could just get on with it..

I've actually got proficiently fast with the SFX editing and mixing side - now being let down by irritating regular crash..

I guess it's time to trash the prefs then?

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:17 am

Are you stlll at OS 10.4.3? Could updating to 10.4.8 possibly help?

martian · Post by **martian** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:35 am

worth a go as trashing pref's didn't work......

I wonder if it's anything to do with the axiom 49 I've just started using?

But it does appear to happen when starting recording - otherwise everything fine for a while..

martian · Post by **martian** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:27 am

nope 10.4.8 hasn't solved this...

crashed the sec I tried to record..

however an alert flashed before my eyes as DP slammed down...

I think it was the playback has exceeded CPU thing....

jarok · Post by **jarok** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:45 am

martian wrote:nope 10.4.8 hasn't solved this...

crashed the sec I tried to record..

however an alert flashed before my eyes as DP slammed down...

I think it was the playback has exceeded CPU thing....

Hi

I would remove Reason totally from the disk.

And then I would instal it again to see if DP then works

without crashing.

jarok

richardein · Post by **richardein** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:21 am

Most of the crashes related to dp that I get seem to come when I max out the use of memory. Are you running big files, large Reason racks? If so, you may need more Ram.

martian · Post by **martian** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:59 am

no they tiny things - just a sampler which I load with SFX. reverb delay scream -

It's been handling way heavier loads...

Just modified my sig - so it correctly shows 3.5 Gig RAM - ( not 3.5 meg hehehe!- tho bill once said nobody will ever need more than 640K!!)

Been going for an hour now...

Have increased biffer size to 1040 or what the double of 512 was... seems to be going OK

Also have removed the tascam control surface too

want that back tho...

martian · Post by **martian** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:11 am

just changed the buffer back to 512.....

needed to record a live mic and 1040 is way tooo much latency

instant crash when hit record with reason...!!!!!

This used to work so well !!!!

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:22 am

I gotta say, I wasn't impressed with 5.01 at all-- glad to have gotten rid of it.

The only things that comes to mind are to trash DP Prefs and AU Info Cache, then delete any older versions of DP and possible duplicate files related to DP.

Worse case scenario: create another User account and reinstall 4.6x there. Use 5.01 to save current projects as 4.6x.

martian · Post by **martian** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:21 am

well I suppose I could say at least I'm working....Back on 5.1 tho not overlly happy with a massive latency... but it has been stable for the last 3-4 hours... buffer setting set to 1024

I noticed in the settings - the host buffer multiplier? would that simply double the buffer size if set to 2? not sure what that's for.... low medium and hight priority?

I have versions of DP going back to version 4..

think I'd like to keep 4.61 around...

and as far as my reason disks goes - is there an uninstaller?

I noticed when goig thru the preferences pane (pain

) things like modulo and others had prefs for MOTU preamp , moulo poly synth outside of the motu specific folder..

Must be a real pain to find all those files and re-install..

I wished it was possible to have a totally seperate computer - but it has worked well for a few years ..

What else may I tweak to get a better result?