I just recieved: AMD Athlon 3000 XP, MSI mobo (unsure of model) 2G of Kingston ( ) Value ( ) RAM, WD 100 and 200 G HD's, E-MU 0404, loaded w/ XP pro and Sonar 5 PE.
So I'm dizzied by the potential this machine has vrs my antique VS 880EX. As a sort of shock therapy, I opted to import the last live recording I did with the Roland, and mix it on the PC. Anyone with the misfortune to be familiar with VS machines knows that Roland raised planned obsolescene to an art form with the early releases. So anyway, the only method to get tracks onto the PC is to record them, in pairs, through the digital outs.
All fine and dandy. I set up both machines, hit record, and play, wander off for 40 minutes, wait for the end of the tracks, hit stop, repeat for the next two tracks. Then realize I forgot to sync the E-MU to the Roland, and start over. Teehee. Over the course of the night, I get all eight 43+ minute tracks transferred.
OK, just eliminating the Roland's DA converters seems to be improving things audibly, except the Roland's outs are a bit hotter than the E-MU's ins, and the vocal tracks are trashed; I'll re-transfer them before I start mixing.
About 9 1/2 minutes in, something in the PC yelled TIMMAYYY! and suddenly, the first two tracks, snare and kick, are 4275 (or something, I had to figure it out to fix it) samples late. Sonic chaos ensues. I Nudged the tracks back into place, new techniques learned, no blood, no foul.
The question: What The Hell Was That All About?
There was no drop-out, no empty audio, just a suddenly late pair of tracks. For its nearly infinite shortcomings, the Roland has never misplaced data, so I have to assume the Whoopsie occurred in the PC. Any ideas?
Perhaps more bizarre, track 6 is permenantly silent. It wasn't last night, I didn't do anything to it, now, no noise. It's not muted, the output is routed to master, all the settings are identical to the tracks that work. Furthermore, I copied and pasted the track to a new track, now the new track behaves normally, the old one just lies there like my girlfriend. Any ideas, pt. 2?
I have searched about a half-dozen combinations of terms, and get nothing, or unrelated info.
So I'm dizzied by the potential this machine has vrs my antique VS 880EX. As a sort of shock therapy, I opted to import the last live recording I did with the Roland, and mix it on the PC. Anyone with the misfortune to be familiar with VS machines knows that Roland raised planned obsolescene to an art form with the early releases. So anyway, the only method to get tracks onto the PC is to record them, in pairs, through the digital outs.
All fine and dandy. I set up both machines, hit record, and play, wander off for 40 minutes, wait for the end of the tracks, hit stop, repeat for the next two tracks. Then realize I forgot to sync the E-MU to the Roland, and start over. Teehee. Over the course of the night, I get all eight 43+ minute tracks transferred.
OK, just eliminating the Roland's DA converters seems to be improving things audibly, except the Roland's outs are a bit hotter than the E-MU's ins, and the vocal tracks are trashed; I'll re-transfer them before I start mixing.
About 9 1/2 minutes in, something in the PC yelled TIMMAYYY! and suddenly, the first two tracks, snare and kick, are 4275 (or something, I had to figure it out to fix it) samples late. Sonic chaos ensues. I Nudged the tracks back into place, new techniques learned, no blood, no foul.
The question: What The Hell Was That All About?
There was no drop-out, no empty audio, just a suddenly late pair of tracks. For its nearly infinite shortcomings, the Roland has never misplaced data, so I have to assume the Whoopsie occurred in the PC. Any ideas?
Perhaps more bizarre, track 6 is permenantly silent. It wasn't last night, I didn't do anything to it, now, no noise. It's not muted, the output is routed to master, all the settings are identical to the tracks that work. Furthermore, I copied and pasted the track to a new track, now the new track behaves normally, the old one just lies there like my girlfriend. Any ideas, pt. 2?
I have searched about a half-dozen combinations of terms, and get nothing, or unrelated info.