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MAC G4 733/768MB/OS 9.1
Installed March of 2001
Waves NPP (legal purchased copy) installed last week
The ongoing legacy:
While running Cubase, USB would freeze up -- freezing the mouse and keyboard. Unplugging and re-seating the cable usually fixed this smallest of hassles...
Recently got the Waves Native Power pack, UAD-1 Powered Plugins, and a Delta 1010 to replace an Audiophile 2496... installed Waves & the UAD-1, then...
The red CPU light on the VST Performance meter would flash. In the "About this Computer" control panel, the available memory would fluctuate (in time!) with the red CPU light... like some unseen program starting, and stopping.
When this occurred, Cubase didn't function.
Quit Cubase, and the memory fluctuation continued for many minutes. Reboot, and it would still be there, and would take many minutes to stop.
Then the BIG problem...
No red light thing happening, but then after editing some parameter... Cubase hesitated, and an earsplitting tone came out of the monitors. Only the G4 reset button stopped it. (Happened when trying to activate the L1 on the Master FX buss)...
Reboot, and the Main HD was fried... the "keys out of order" error was diagnosed by Disk FirstAid... had to use Alsoft's Disk Warrior to recover. Luckily, most of the files were saved...
Thought the problem was behind me... Noooooo
The red light thingy happened intermittently all week... Hard disk got fried again, recovered again... backed up songs to CD-R...
THEN LAST NIGHT... edited an effect parameter (from the UAD-1 this time)... pause... EARSPLITTING NOISE from all out channels on the 1010... reset button... the secondary hard drive, where the project was... fried...
Disk Warrior again, but THIS time, the "song" file wasn't recovered and only the most recent .aiff files were saved... luckily, I had backed up to CD-R.
Painstakingly re-imported audio back into the project, and backed up EVERYTHING again...
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THIS IS NO WAY TO WORK
These things can't be accidents... IMO it's done on purpose to discourage cracks... they let you think everything is ok... for a WHILE... then BANG... GONE.
BUT I PAID FOR CUBASE, AND IT'S LEGIT!!! Waves, too
Maybe Waves is f-kn with me? Haven't authorized it yet, since they recommend waiting one week (to try out the demo plugs)...
--
What is the solution? I don't want to do a clean install... I have download software I've legally paid for, like MacSOHO, that don't have program disks and I'm afraid that stuff will get WIPED forever.
Is there some code-key combination, or something I can erase/add, that will stop this terrorist B.S. from killing my hard drives?!
--
Sending this to both Waves and Steinberg... but thought I'd throw this frustration out here to see if anyone ELSE has gone thru similar BS with their own, LEGAL setup.
Thanks
Chad
MAC G4 733/768MB/OS 9.1
Installed March of 2001
Waves NPP (legal purchased copy) installed last week
The ongoing legacy:
While running Cubase, USB would freeze up -- freezing the mouse and keyboard. Unplugging and re-seating the cable usually fixed this smallest of hassles...
Recently got the Waves Native Power pack, UAD-1 Powered Plugins, and a Delta 1010 to replace an Audiophile 2496... installed Waves & the UAD-1, then...
The red CPU light on the VST Performance meter would flash. In the "About this Computer" control panel, the available memory would fluctuate (in time!) with the red CPU light... like some unseen program starting, and stopping.
When this occurred, Cubase didn't function.
Quit Cubase, and the memory fluctuation continued for many minutes. Reboot, and it would still be there, and would take many minutes to stop.
Then the BIG problem...
No red light thing happening, but then after editing some parameter... Cubase hesitated, and an earsplitting tone came out of the monitors. Only the G4 reset button stopped it. (Happened when trying to activate the L1 on the Master FX buss)...
Reboot, and the Main HD was fried... the "keys out of order" error was diagnosed by Disk FirstAid... had to use Alsoft's Disk Warrior to recover. Luckily, most of the files were saved...
Thought the problem was behind me... Noooooo
The red light thingy happened intermittently all week... Hard disk got fried again, recovered again... backed up songs to CD-R...
THEN LAST NIGHT... edited an effect parameter (from the UAD-1 this time)... pause... EARSPLITTING NOISE from all out channels on the 1010... reset button... the secondary hard drive, where the project was... fried...
Disk Warrior again, but THIS time, the "song" file wasn't recovered and only the most recent .aiff files were saved... luckily, I had backed up to CD-R.
Painstakingly re-imported audio back into the project, and backed up EVERYTHING again...
---
THIS IS NO WAY TO WORK
These things can't be accidents... IMO it's done on purpose to discourage cracks... they let you think everything is ok... for a WHILE... then BANG... GONE.
BUT I PAID FOR CUBASE, AND IT'S LEGIT!!! Waves, too
Maybe Waves is f-kn with me? Haven't authorized it yet, since they recommend waiting one week (to try out the demo plugs)...--
What is the solution? I don't want to do a clean install... I have download software I've legally paid for, like MacSOHO, that don't have program disks and I'm afraid that stuff will get WIPED forever.
Is there some code-key combination, or something I can erase/add, that will stop this terrorist B.S. from killing my hard drives?!
--
Sending this to both Waves and Steinberg... but thought I'd throw this frustration out here to see if anyone ELSE has gone thru similar BS with their own, LEGAL setup.
Thanks
Chad
