dafduc
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I am apparently putting together acd files that are either too complex, or I'm doing something that AP4 doesn't like.
My PC's a little old, but it still handles my other apps pretty well - 866 mhz Compaq P3 with 512mb ram, and two HDs, 40gb and 80gb. Running WinME, all competing processes shut off.
One tune only had about 10-12 tracks. I was running a few effects, but limited myself to track-optimized effects.
Even when I soloed a single track, it froze up on me - apparently soloing doesn't shut off processing on the trax?
On one tune, I reused the same vocal file (big file, one-shot mode) on 5 tracks, playing with segments to get a pseudo-chorus going. I tried changing it to loop mode to see if it would help, but it still sputtered to a halt.
This has forced me to always render the file after I tweak it, so I can listen, because soloing doesn't help. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Acid is a great sketchpad type environment to build a song in. But it chokes so easy, I may have to resurrect my old practice of starting in Acid and porting to Cubase 5 - which seems to have few troubles running lots of tracks and effects.
Little help, please?
Thx,
Daf
My PC's a little old, but it still handles my other apps pretty well - 866 mhz Compaq P3 with 512mb ram, and two HDs, 40gb and 80gb. Running WinME, all competing processes shut off.
One tune only had about 10-12 tracks. I was running a few effects, but limited myself to track-optimized effects.
Even when I soloed a single track, it froze up on me - apparently soloing doesn't shut off processing on the trax?
On one tune, I reused the same vocal file (big file, one-shot mode) on 5 tracks, playing with segments to get a pseudo-chorus going. I tried changing it to loop mode to see if it would help, but it still sputtered to a halt.
This has forced me to always render the file after I tweak it, so I can listen, because soloing doesn't help. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Acid is a great sketchpad type environment to build a song in. But it chokes so easy, I may have to resurrect my old practice of starting in Acid and porting to Cubase 5 - which seems to have few troubles running lots of tracks and effects.
Little help, please?
Thx,
Daf
