pk file problem

[dobro]

I've got one track in a session that refuses to have a pk file attached to it. The session takes a long time to load too - probably the lack of pk file on that one track. I've tried Save As, but that doesn't work. I've tried inserting the track from a previous session and Saving it As a new track with a new name, but that doesn't work either.

Anybody have any idea what's happening? Or better yet, how to fix it?

[BlackoutSP]

what do you mean, "one track"

do you mean that whatever you put in Track number 3 (for example), and then save it, doesn't get a pk saved with it?

and two more things, one is, the session may take forever to open just becuase it is very complicated and large. I use CEP for full band recordings regularly (i have started a recording studio) and i am currently working on a ska band. several of those sessions have 50 or so tracks in them right now (usually all playing simultaneously too), we have 8 drums, 8 trombone (four mics, doubled for true stereo), and many, many takes, true stereo doubles, and different parts of guitar, all on four mics each so we have options later (not to use all four in the end, mind you-that means trouble). these sessions (which don't even have bass or vocals yet), and others like it take as long as ten minutes to load on my 3 GHz pentium 4 pavilion

lastly, i have seen, to date (in almost two years of experience with the program) no purpose for the pk files. If you have found what purpose they serve, let me know, i am very curious, i have deleted them and seen no change.

hope this helps, my email is keith@blackoutstudioproductions.com

[ozpeter]

pk files are essential for the display of waveforms and the program recreates them if you delete them - unless it's a file format which doesn't have them. If you are experiencing slow loading time, it's probably because you have deleted the pk files, or because you have locked tracks but not saved the locks.

[dobro]

Oz - no, that isn't it. Windows explorer doesn't display the pk file for the track in question. In fact, it's two tracks - the vocal and the bass. Sure, it's a large session, but it takes *much* longer to load than sessions of a similar size.

"pk files are essential for the display of waveforms and the program recreates them if you delete them"

Mine isn't recreating them. Not even if I use Save As on the tracks in question, not even if I use Save As on the entire session.

"unless it's a file format which doesn't have them."

They're wav files, like the others.

"If you are experiencing slow loading time, it's probably because you have deleted the pk files, or because you have locked tracks but not saved the locks."

I don't have any locked tracks on that session, so it must be that I deleted the pk files. What I don't understand is why, by resaving the tracks in question, I can't re-create the pk files for those tracks.

[ozpeter]

Am I right in thinking 24-bit .wav files don't have .pk files? Or very short ones. Or you've got .pk file saving switched off!