cubase shutting down

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I have cubase le/lexicon omega and have recorded some tracks. I tried to cut some guitar tracks on the songs I have already started. Everything was going OK and then the recording just stopped in the middle of a song and I get the message on my laptop "new harware detected".

After I got this message I tried to start again and no sound comes out...Cubase was not showing a signal. So I went to device setup and looked at the drivers....it was not set on the lexicon driver. I tried to switch drivers to the lexicon and got the message "unable to locate driver"

I rebooted my computer...nothing changed. I tried to switch drivers again and nothing changed...same message.

Finally I unplugged the power cord from the omega and plugged it back in.
I rebooted the computer and cubase came up with the correct driver...everything was like it is supposed to be.

I started recording again and got about halfway into the song on the guitar part....same thing all over again.
I unplugged the omega and booted back up at least 8 times (finally got all the way through the song without getting the "new hardware found" message...but I got it again when I started working on a second song.

Can anyone help me with this issue?
thanks
 
How is the Omega plugged into your computer? Could it have a dodgy connection that keeps cutting in and out?
 
Sounds to me like it's a USB problem. When it says "new hardware detected" I'm thinking it's lost the USB connection and rebooted itself. A lot of times, when voltage exceeds set limits, it'll shut off the ports, then reboot them, which would cause you to stop recording (cause cubase don't have a driver anymore). It would also cause crap trying to get it restarted w/o a reboot. It may not help, but I'd install new usb 2.0 drivers. Are you running SP2? If not, that might be your problem right there...
 
jrhager84 said:
Sounds to me like it's a USB problem. When it says "new hardware detected" I'm thinking it's lost the USB connection and rebooted itself. A lot of times, when voltage exceeds set limits, it'll shut off the ports, then reboot them, which would cause you to stop recording (cause cubase don't have a driver anymore). It would also cause crap trying to get it restarted w/o a reboot. It may not help, but I'd install new usb 2.0 drivers. Are you running SP2? If not, that might be your problem right there...
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what is sp2?
 
Windows Service Pack 2. It has an updated USB driver for HI-speed *USB 2.0* I have problems with my blackberry because I don't have SP2 (I lost my copy of winblows and had to use a cracked key). If you click on Start > right click on My computer > and go down to Properties, it'll say on that page what you're running.

Mine says
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 1

Then some other info. That'll tell you right there. I'll help you as much as I can, but I'm definitely no expert on this as well...anybody else have any ideas?
 
I checked and it says I have service pack 2.
I have 480 mb of RAM...is that enough?(the omega list 256 mb RAM as the minimum requirement)
I was thinking there may not be enough ram to handle multi track recording...I dunno, I'm not knowledgeable on any of this.
I just want to record without the system shutting down...cause there's nothing more frustrating than getting a good performance recorded and the damn recorder shutting down.
(the omega list 256 mb RAM as the minimum requirement)
 
Just remember, the more tracks you have with the more plugins, the more RAM and CPU performance it's gonna take. 480 should be enough...make sure to check your CPU performance bar while recording, it shouldn't spike or anything... Keep me posted,

-Joel
 
It seems like I remember reading somewhere that you can lower the sample rate on the playback tracks and use less ram when tracking.

Im not doing that...would that help maybe?

If so, how do I do it?
 
The playback sample rate would have to be the same as the recording sample rate. You can alter the sample rate of the entire project in Cubase in the project preferences. However if you alter the sample rate of the project and you aldeady have audio files in it, the speed they play back at will change.

If you increase your buffer size it might not put so much strain on the computer. Should be able to do this in the Omega's control panel.
 
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