Recording in SX, it cuts me off!*

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When I record I usally get cut off at around 1 min. I can record but it then suddenly stops recording while it is still playing and going though the rest of the track.

Weird.

What's the solution to this mess?? I have Sx 1.0.5 with the Delta 44 sound card, a Pentium IV @ 2.0 and 512DDR.
 
Are you running dual HD's at 7200 rpm's or better?

Does the record button actually go off after a minute? Or is it just that the audio is no longer being registered?
 
I had this happen once or twice when I first started using SX. I had my clocks misconfigured, so the drift between word clock and the derived clock from the converters caused the card to lose sync after some period of time. When that happens, SX will drop out of record. This seems to be a very good way of telling you to check out your clocking...

I had an external converter that drove its output into my Hammerfall via ADAT lightpipe. Its front panel had gotten bumped, setting its clock to "internal" rather than "word clock". The Hammerfall was set to word clock sync, and the two clocks almost (but not quite) stayed in sync- they drifted apart slowly enough to give me a framing error about once a minute. I reset the converter to use word clock, and everything cleared right up.

This may not be your problem, but it is worth checking. The other thing to check is to make sure the right marker is out past the end of your song, because it'll drop out of record when it hits the right marker. I set it to 1 hour in my new tune template, because I could never get the hang of moving it manually, and this used to really _piss me off_ with VST32...

Hope that helps.
 
Yes I have two hard drives at 7200, they are Maxtor's; 40gigs each.

-Skippy,
1) How do I check the synk thing your talking about on my Delta 44 and how do I change it?

2) How do I set the marker for an hour like you did?

*3) Just last night I was screwing around on Sx and so I did drums w/o a problem and bass w/o a problem. Then I decided to use MIDI through Halion and while I was recording the MIDI track it would take the very last 2 seconds of the track and place it in the begining of the track, while deleting the rest of the it.

Uhh??

I was thinking maybe I just need to deFrag?? The computer is 3 months old and I have NOT deFraged it yet.
 
1. No idea, unfortunately- I have no experience with that sound card. It has to have a control panel entry of some sort where you can configure the clocking.

To get to that control panel, open up SX. You then go to the Devices/Device Setup/VST Multitrack tab, select ASIO Driver, and in that window you'll have entries for driver selection, clock source, and a button for "control panel". First, make sure the right drivers are selected for your card: click in the driver item and look at the entries in the popup. There should be something like "Delta 44 ASIO" in the list. Make sure that that is selected.

The clock source item should then be automatically set to "settings". Push the "control panel" button, and that should bring up the Delta driver control window. Set the clock source to "internal" or "master", whichever appears in the panel, and set the other audio settings like sample rate to whatever you want- check the Delta documentation for their recommendations. That ought to do it.

2. The recording will drop out automatically whenever the cursor passes the right marker, if the auto-punch-out mode is turned on. To check this, pull up the Transport panel. it will have an entry for L, for R, and four buttons below it: AQ (auto quantize), auto punch in, cycle mode, auto-punch-out. Make sure that auto-punch-in and auto-punch-out are not selected (white instead of blue). You can then click the mouse in the R marker field and set it to any value you want.

I use templates to do this sort of needed-every-time setup. I get the program into the most commonly used setup (channel assigns, track names, input and output state, auto-punch-in and -out turned off, and the right marker moved out where it won't piss me off). I then do "save as template", and save the template to some name I like, like "basic setup". Then, when you start a new project, you choose "basic template", and all the gozintas, comesoutas, and so on are already set up the way you want them. _Big_ win.

3. No clue. I know nothing about Halion, because I don't use it. When I do MIDI sequencing, I just play directly into Cubase, edit it there, and let it play back out. I don't do that much with MIDI- just very basic stuff. I've never seen anything like this.

Fragmentation on the drive has nothing to do with this. I defrag regularly, but drive fragmentation really only becomes an issue when you have lots of audio tracks in a project, especially at high bitrates. I'd certainly defrag the beast, but that isn't the problem.

Anybody else want to take a swing at this one?

Hope that helps...
 
BINGO!

Skippy...the template suggestion is genius! I spend at least 5-10 minutes setting up the basic settings on each song! This will surely make my life a happier place!
 
Thanks for the kind words. The template function might have been there in VST32, but I didn't discover it until reading the manuals for SX... The time it saves in typing in track names, handling MIDI device setups, and mapping I/O is literally _priceless_. Everytime I find something new that I wished was set to some specific value at startup, I just redo the "save as template" after setting it, and it's always there... Good feature!
 
BINGO!

Skippy...the template suggestion is genius! I spend at least 5-10 minutes setting up the basic settings on each song! This will surely make my life a happier place!
 
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