DP 6.01 Strange Behavior

[Castlebury]

I have been working on a mix all day and am ready to put it to bed however DP 6.01 has kicked into a slew of very odd behaviors. Over the past day or so I have had some strange goings on with regard to playback. The wave form will look completely normal but when I go to play it back it is complete digital noise. The type you would expect to hear if the wave display took up the whole amplitude. I had laid the full mix down successfully and went to listen back and this noise was on the last few bars of the track. As I attempted to fix that situation I noticed that the wave display was getting further behind the cursor as it was being drawn during the record process. The end result being that on playback the bars are shifted earlier in the time line as though the tempo was running faster. Obviously something has gone south that has started dominoes falling that I can't seem to stop. I have trashed pref's. Fixed permissions and reinstalled DP. Nothing seems to have made any difference so far. Looking for any insight from the list.

This is an odd situation and a bit hard to explain so I hope this makes sense and some of you smart guys can help heal this for me.

Thanks in advance.

[timothyclee]

I had the same thing happen when I was tracking some live gigs and I fixed it by having the host buffer multiplier set to "3" since I was using 3 MOTU 8pres. Seems wen this got switched somehow back to 1 it was creating the same thing you've got going on. The waveforms were drawn correctly, but say 5 min into the song I got digital noise coming out of my monitors like the waveform should have been a solid back bar in the whole waveform window. Unfortunatley fixing the buffer setting does not fix the material already recorded. If you open those sound files in another program it's interesting to what happens. You might try that...if they open fine in another audio editor than it's just a setting in DP, but if they sound like that in another program unfortunatley all is lost.

Tim

[Castlebury]

I've had this same set up for years and have never run into this. I'm running two 2408's but have never thought I needed to change the host buffer. I'll try that in the am I'm beyond both tired and frustrated and this point and had just cut everything off when I saw your reply. I just can't understand why this would all of the sudden appear. I tracked guitars all day long and no problem it wasn't until I tried to do the last step that I ran into problems. Monitoring on input everything sounds great and the CPU is just cruising on idle...

Very weird...