Warning for n00bs

[FM]

first off, props to Pascal for admitting that he might have overreacted, and i say that with total respect, i am not trying to be patronizing.
i get pissed at DP plenty and i understand how frustrating it is to try and be creative or to work when The Muse shows up and you're rig just doesn't want to cooperate.

i think mastermixes' reply is something you should look into.
this sounds more like a setup problem than a DP problem.
it's easy to overlook things, for example i usually track at 512 but one day i decided to go even lower, it worked great except that when i started mixing everything was slow and screwed up, the i remember and i changed my sample buffer setting back to 512 and all is well again.

same thing when i use to record to my internal drive, using a separate drive for audio only fixed a bunch of problems.

my very humble $0.2

peace,

FM

FM would like to buy a vowel, please Pat.

[dpdan]

Pascal, I am proud of Kwiz for posting your positive comments about DP, and I know that your post was the result of a very diappointed user.

I hope that you find the features and useability of dp to be wonderful, and by all means if they are not to your liking, it is very possible that you have used pro tools so much longer that you are still feeling somewhat lost in dp. I could imagine. I for one, hope that you find a reasonable fix for the troubles that you have come across.

dpDan

<small>[ April 02, 2005, 03:25 PM: Message edited by: dpdan ]</small>

[thracks]

Originally posted by FM:
first off, props to Pascal for admitting that he might have overreacted, and i say that with total respect, i am not trying to be patronizing.

ditto this for me too

[Splinter]

Originally posted by shanabit:
I dont think Pascal is a Troll

Whether he's a troll or just trolling around, he only posted to piss everyone off and slam DP. He wasn't asking for help or presenting a problem, he was simply posting his "warning." That's trolling if I ever saw it.

<small>[ April 02, 2005, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: Splinter ]</small>

[chrispick]

Wow. Just like an episode on the WB, all this up-and-down drama. Kinda makes me misty.

[Timeline]

Try finding one studio in LA which doesn't have DP in use in it's studio...It's a serious bit of kit and whilst every bit of software has its faults, the hard part is admitting that YOU might be the problem and not your software

I know several starting with Ocean Way. I wish they did but many don't. Same for Nashville. Blackbird never put it in yet they have Nuendo, Logic, Radar & PT.

I asked them why and they said because nobody ever asked for it.

Just a intsey tiny comment. Not trying to start a war.

[Rob Castiglione]

Dear Pascal,

Thanks for the explanation and it is fair enough. You should see the letter that I am about to write to Apple about Logic 7 which I purchased and actually had to return! Hope you sort out your problems quickly.

Rob

[Pasz]

Originally posted by musicarteca:
I have almost the exact setup as yours, but I don't have any of the problems that you are describing, so believe me it is not DP, but probably something in your configuration or the way you are handling the tools.

To activate a sequence you don't double click on it, but press the blue play button in the chunks window next to the sequence that you want to make active.

I don't have problems with the soundbites window nor long save times, unless is a very large file.

Fades take long to render if they are long fades, an alternative to long fade in, fade outs, is using volume automation. I don't understand what you mean when you say that your fades sound weird. Are you crossfading between soundbites or just fading in and out?

I was talking about short fades, about 30 - 100 ms.

I record on a separate internal drive and I made a separate account just for recording, but those things didn't help. I trashed the iView plugin.

About punching in earlier/out later: It's a method I can get used to but I do hope MOTU puts in the PT-way in the future.

The fades problem: I recorded drums on 10 tracks, which I edited (chopped up, moved around), then selected those regions and chose "fade" from the menu. What happens is dat some tracks (I think it was the snare) just get out of sync with the other tracks. Very weird.

There is another bug I have with the Waves Q4 plugin: When the buffers are low (256 samples) the controls get ' jumpy'. They snap into certain frequencies and amplitudes. Weird. I guess this could be a Waves-problem but I thought I'd just mention it.

It could be that the problem lies with the project itself. Could that be possible? Maybe I should try importing all the tracks into a new session (how do I do that?) and see what happens. I had trouble with a particular session in PT and doing that helped, weird enough.

[doodles]

pascal

yeah, credit to you for apologizing - i know it can be frustrating