Home Studio 2 XL - strange problem

[Bambi Busboom]

Mates,

I recently changed from my elderly Cool Edit Pro 1.1 to Home Studio 2 XL.

Also, the computer is only 2 weeks old:

Compaq Pentium 2.8 GhZ/ 1GB RAM/ 128MB NVIDIA/ 200GB OS and 80GB music HDs/ WIN XP Home / M-Audio Audiophile 2496 / I have a cable modem- always on. XP is also new to me- I've used WIN 98SE since 98 until now.

I use this setup in a very simple way to record live 2 channel- and in the future want to use MIDI more- hence the change from CEP.

The thing is, there's a small but annoying problem with the HS 2 XL. When selecting a portion of a track to delete, move, apply a process or effect, the area selected flickers on the screen while moving the mouse. Moving the mouse, the image jumps around such that I can't tell when I'm ending the selection. I've tried lowering screen resolution- no change. This is distracting, makes it difficult to use the programme, and makes me think the software is "unhappy" in some way. I'd love to find a cure!

The local Cakewalk distributor had never heard of this one Have you?

Thanks!

Cheers,

Bambi B

 

[James Argo]

Well Bambi,
I'm not quite sure, but I suspect it's NVidia problem with Cakewalk in Win98 environment. Even me running Sonar 3 PE with WinXP home, I still have problem with scrolling clips / event either in Piano roll View, or Track View. I don't know if NVidia still supports Win98 users.

Anyway, did you turn on "Snap to grid" (key "N")? How did you set it?


Jaymz

 

[Bambi Busboom]

HS 2 problem- IRQs? And is HD format/cluster size important?

James Argo,

Thank you very much for your reply. I'm at my wit's end with this after three hours "chatting" with Compaq support tis afternoon- and with no improvement.

I realize that I wrote the original message a bit obscurely, but the new computer is using XP home- not Win 98 , which was my previous computer.

There is another problem with this computer. Large or numerous files and programmes have been loading more slowly than on my old Pentium 750. I use Corel Photopaint 8 and I am unable to scroll through the 2000 jpg files- the file open dialog locks and jumps through the lists.

But, you may be right about there being a video conflict. Checking the IRQs, the video card is on the same IRQ as all the USB controllers. I've been unable to find out how to manually change the video IRQ to an unused unique number, but I'd like to try that if only to eliminate it as a possibility.

Also, I realized that my second hard drive uses a different format- the new HD is "NTFS" which are 4K clusters and the others are "FAT32" which I think are 32K clusters. In both cases- the waveforms in Home Studio and the jpgs used in photo editing are on the second HD- with the different file system. Does this spanning of file system between partitions and cluster size have any effect?

I'm going bonkers on this. My 4-year old P 750 runs much faster than the new P 2.8GhZ with 4X the RAM!

Thanks again,

Bambi B

 

[Bambi Busboom]

Sorry- I forgot to answer your question!

James,

I'm sorry. I'm so muddled, that I forgot to answer your question about the "snap to grid".

Being new to Cakewalk, I was fussing with tries on some recording and I was at first frustrated by snap to grid. But, I use AutoCad also and snap to grid is a familiar concept there, so I learned the little grid switch can toggle the snap. So, in short, I never did make a setting for the snap- I've only turned it off.

Again, thanks,

Bambi B