Home Studio 2002 help

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Hi,

I'm having trouble with Cakewalk Home Studio 2002. Every time I'm working on making a drum track or basically creating any type of track, I get an error message like "Home Studio has encountered an unspecified error". I don't remember the exact wording, but it happens every time I'm applying effects to the whole track. What I'm doing is importing drum clips and using the groove clip looping function, you know where you pull the end of the clip over to make more of the clip?

Anyone have any ideas? It only happens when I'm applying effects. And it doesn't seem to matter which effect...it just gets the error message about half way through.

It's pretty damn frustrating because I lose everything I'm working on. I know I could save everything before I apply any effects, but it still seems to happen every time. That makes the applying effects routine quite useless.

Here are the computer specs: HP running XP with P4 1.6 gHz, 480 MB RAM and 32 gig hard drive.

Thanks for the help,
Brian
 
Not sure about that problem specifically. Just wondering if you've tried some of the XP tweaks out there. http://www.musicxp.net Maybe a little system tuning could help clear it up...?
 
Bri, is there a specific plug in you're using that causes the problem?

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Just about every effect

Hi all,

Well it happens with almost every effect. Last time it was one of the Cakewalk effects. I think I tried to add reverb, but then again I forget which one because it always seems to happen.

I've used all the ones included in the original software. There are 5 listed under "Audio". There are 18 listed under "Audio effects", then there is a line under those and some more choices are offered. Those are Cakewalk, Ligos MPEG, Sonitus:fx, & WMT.

So I just did a little test and Murphy's Law came into paly. Nothing bad happened. I tried a Cakewalk Reverb, Normalize, a Waves reverb, an I3DL2Reverb, and a Cakewalk Compressor (final mix setting). They all worked fine.

What I did notice is I just turned the computer on and fired up Cakewalk. It just then dawned on me that the other times the errors occured was when the computer has been on for some time. Maybe that's the culprit?

This is not that big of a deal because my main DAW is a Korg D1600. I primarily use Cakewalk for cleaning up tracks or building drum lines.

But from now on I will take notes of what happens the next time. I'm guessing the amount of time the computer has been on is the culprit but we shall see.

And guttadaj, I did visit the site, but my studio computer is no longer hooked up to the cable modem. I procured an iMac for $25 and have hooked it up to the web. Unfortunately I can't burn any discs on this machine. Maybe if I read everything on the site I can get a few hints.

Thanks for the help and suggestions.
Brian
 
Applied all MusicXP fixes

So I printed off and applied all the tweaks for XP. We'll see how things run from now on.

I will run Cakewalk and apply some effects to see what goes on. Either way, I will let everyone know what happened. Let me play around for a couple days and see.

Hopefully this is the magic bullet.

Thanks,
Brian :)
 
Nope.

So I just did another test and discovered what might be the problem. If I import any drum .wavs they are automatically considered groove clips. Trying to apply an effect on one of those takes a really long time and it ends in the error message every time. To contrast this, I noticed that just importing something I recorded and applying an effect doesn't end in the fateful error problem.

So to further check, I converted the wav I recorded into a groove clip. I then applied an effect and it took the really long time and ended in the error message. It didn't matter which effect I tried. It all ends in the same error message...at least with the groove clips.

So, maybe I'm not setting the tempo set up right or doing something wrong with these groove clips. I normally don't even mess with the tempo because it makes the clip sound weird once I change it.

And to note, all I've ever read was the "Getting Started" manual that came in the box. I loaned a friend the program CD and have yet to get it back. Once I get it back I will print out the full manual and read it all the way through. I've just been figuring it out as I go.

But otherwise, any suggestions? Would converting the groove clip back to regular audio work? I can convert from regular audio to groove clip, so why won't it work the other way around? I guess I'll give that a try to see.

Thanks again,
Brian
 
Now it's fine.

Well now everything seems to work just fine.

I profiled my soundcard and had trouble with it after that. No matter what I did I couldn't hear any sound from it. So after trying just about everything, I restored my computer to the point before I did the XP tweaks.

So I re-entered all the XP tweaks and now it works perfectly. No more error messages when applying effects to anything. I can hardly believe it!

Anyway, thanks for the tips on the XP tweaks. My computer is running really fast now.

On another subject, if you could help, how can I adjust the tempo of any wav I've imported and not have it sound distorted? When I lower the tempo on the wav it sounds like the pitch has dropped a bit, and it sounds less like the original file. I can't really describe the sounds, but it just doesn't sound right.

Any suggestions? I've messed around with the loop consturction view window, but I still get the drop in pitch.

Thanks,
Brian
 
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