Subject:Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Posted by: Avene

Date:4/22/2007 1:31:35 AM

I'm running Acid on a Dell notebook here that my wife mostly uses. Since it's not in my system info, it's specs are - Intel Pentium M 2ghz Centrino, 1gb ram, 80gb hard drive, built in SigmaTel C-Major sound card running ASIO4ALL with the latency set to 384, NEC DVD+-RW, and a standard Intel shared graphics card with a firewire interface.. Not that video is used much on here. We also have an M-Audio Radium 49 keyboard connected to it.

In use, Acid seems to crash roughly every 10 minutes, maybe more. So far my wife's just got one song that we've been working on. It's 16bit and uses the DLS Soft Synth, plus these VSTi plugins - mda Piano, Arturia MinimoogV, Cheese Machine and TickyKlav. I hope that's enough info?

If anyone has any suggestions on how to avoid this happening, or if it's possibly a bug in the software, any info would be much appreciated. It's driving us crazy! I've increased the ASIO4ALL latency to 384 from 128, but it hasn't made any difference.

Glenn

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: ohmaya

Date:4/22/2007 7:19:22 AM

welcome to the club - see my post labeled disgusted new user below...

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Jay R

Date:4/23/2007 5:00:30 AM

Once you've tracked your VSTi's, try switching to a non-ASIO driver. Also, make sure your Radium has current drivers (M-Audio is notorious for driver problems), assuming it actually uses drivers.

If you're stilll tracking, try dropping back and tracking using the DLS, then swap your good VSTi's in. I realize that's not always transparent, especially with the Mini, I'd imagine.

Are you using XP?

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:4/24/2007 11:20:35 AM

Is there anything installed on the laptop that could interfere as well? (What's in the SysTray?)

Iacobus

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Avene

Date:4/24/2007 4:14:04 PM

Ok, I'll give that a try and check the Radium drivers, thanks. Yes, it is XP too.

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Avene

Date:4/24/2007 4:15:39 PM

Only thing I can think of would be AVG anti-virus, but I use that on the other computers and have never had a problem.

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Avene

Date:4/25/2007 7:27:48 AM

Yes, the MinimoogV seems to cause it to crash every so often. It can be a bit slow to respond aswell,

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Jay R

Date:4/26/2007 9:39:00 AM

You usually should be turning off your antivirus when working with any soft sequencer. Of course, that means disconnecting from the internet as well, or you'll have even bigger problems, LOL.

I've found that my Arturia synth (Moog Modular V) is a real resource hog. Great sound though.

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: Avene

Date:4/26/2007 6:41:27 PM

It's weird, it doesn't crash on the other two computers it's on here, and I don't think it would be the anti virus software. AVG doesn't cause the same problems as Norton and the rest of the big names. I might try my old Digigram Pocket card in the notebook. It's got some decent ASIO drivers.

Subject:RE: Acid 6.0d crashing every 10 minutes or so

Reply by: jaydeeee

Date:5/4/2007 11:17:17 AM

IMO: AVG is one of the better AV's to use, and you shouldn't have to disable it when using these apps. If so I suggest you look into upgrading all/certain aspects of your system. Norton and the like are horrid choices with AV for media systems.

ASIO4all? It's time to get a better audio card.

M-Audio drivers are not bad at all, certainly not as bad as 90% of the competitive boards out there. I find them to offer some of the most flexible cards/drivers around (some cards being better than others of course).
The delta 1010 is a workhorse (the lesser delta 1010 "LT" isn't bad either - especially at the pricepoint). Be careful in choosing one of anything using Fwire - it just isn't there yet for serious tracking.

I understand it's popularity in portability (remixers/laptop musicians/like garbage) but any production done on a laptop is ridiculous. usually dictated by half-ass audio cards with sketchy driver support, half-ass IO, etc.
But fwiw, Ableton might be a better choice for laptop musicians, otherwise get yourself to work on a solid desktop/daw for any serious production along with a better audio card (no asio4all).