live recording stopped after 2 hours on my laptop?!?!?

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Hi I was using my new portable rig to record 16 channels and everything was going fine until it just stopped recording for no reason!?!

I just pressed record again and it started again and carried on without problems?

Wondering what it could be is it ram? I have 2.5 gig so seems not...
Any advice would be great!
I am using TI chipset through PCMCIA card onto XP on a Lenovo t60 recording with Cubase SX 3.....

Thanks
 
You recorded 16 channels, for 2 consecutive hours to a laptop?

My guess is you ran into size problems.

What OS?
File system?(fat32 has a 4gb per file limit)
File resolution? (44/16, wav, or mp3?)
 
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Was is exactly 2 hours?

Did you have a project length that was set to 2 hours?? :confused:
 
At 96 kHz, 2 GB is just over 2 hours. Could be a signed/unsigned bug in the DAW. At 192 kHz, 4 GB is just over 2 hours. At that sample rate, you pretty much hit the wall if you're recording on a FAT filesystem.
 
Hi sorry for late reply

No my file system is NTFC . . It was 41k 24 bit . .
I have no idea what it could be maybe the ASIO drivers?
If it was recording ok then why would it suddenly stop.. It was 2 H 10 m or somethin..
Thanks for response..
 
Which drive were you recording onto? Its advisable to record onto a completly independent drive, internal or external doesn't really matter, just so long as its a nice fast drive, NOT a usb one! :P
 
Recording onto my internal 7200 rpm drive

shouldn't be any probs there its 7200 rpm chosen specifically for recording...
 
dastrick said:
Was is exactly 2 hours?

Did you have a project length that was set to 2 hours?? :confused:
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I suspect this is it. Anything else (RAM issues for example) would've caused a crash not a simple stop.
 
Don't think so man

Thanks for input man but it went straight back to recording when I pressed record again once it had stopped so there wasn't a limit on the project size.. And I don't think that option exists in Cubase?

Need to find out its obviously un acceptable if I'm recording someones live set...
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I would venture to say that you are hitting some file size limit. For doing long recordings, I use wavelab. It allows you to split up the files in any form you want so you can record 1 or 2 gig chunks seamlessly. I have recorded for 8 hrs straight with no issues (on a P3 no less)
 
altitude909 said:
I would venture to say that you are hitting some file size limit. For doing long recordings, I use wavelab. It allows you to split up the files in any form you want so you can record 1 or 2 gig chunks seamlessly. I have recorded for 8 hrs straight with no issues (on a P3 no less)
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would this allow me to record up to 24 simultaneous channels at whatever quality I like?
 
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

I love George and this quote is amazing!!! lol
 
noisewreck said:
Most definitely does. In the Project Settings dialog box. By default this is usually set to 10 min (IIRC).
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But, after I think about it...he wouldn't just be able to hit record again IF it was to the end of the project.
 
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