Howdy!
I've been using Vegas since the first Beta came out, and
have recently worked my system up to be able to
theoretically record 24 tracks at at time... unfortunately,
I've been having some trouble with it - specifically getting
a substantial number of pops and clicks.
The project I've been working on is choral concert. The
concert was a little over two hours long... an hour per
half. I had about 16 tracks coming in: 8 through a Fronier
Designs Tango and another 8 coming in through a Tascam
MA-AD8 (chained to a IF-TAD) - both through the light pipe
inputs on a Frontier Designs Dakota. The word-sync was
provided by the internal sync of the Tango.
Anyway.. the first night, I solved most of the clicks
between the first and second night by ditching the routing I
had set up on the Dakota to monitor the input tracks... I
assume that the pathing was taking too much from the
processor?
So... the second night. The first half was great -
virtually no pops... the second half, however, the problem
came back. Any guesses what might have caused this?
I'm thinking that the drive was working close to it's limit
and as it got closer to being full, the performance
diminished? Will installing an IDE Raid help?
One additional annoyance: After I finished recording, it
took an EXTREMELY long time to give me control back of my
machine.
Does anyone else out there have any similar problems?? Or
exprience with extended record times? (45 - 60 minutes)
The Beast:
Celeron 333
256MB RAM
4 Gig "System" drive (C:)
Maxtor 40Gig 7200RPM DMA/100 Drive (Data Only)
Win 98
Frontier Designs Dakota
I've been using Vegas since the first Beta came out, and
have recently worked my system up to be able to
theoretically record 24 tracks at at time... unfortunately,
I've been having some trouble with it - specifically getting
a substantial number of pops and clicks.
The project I've been working on is choral concert. The
concert was a little over two hours long... an hour per
half. I had about 16 tracks coming in: 8 through a Fronier
Designs Tango and another 8 coming in through a Tascam
MA-AD8 (chained to a IF-TAD) - both through the light pipe
inputs on a Frontier Designs Dakota. The word-sync was
provided by the internal sync of the Tango.
Anyway.. the first night, I solved most of the clicks
between the first and second night by ditching the routing I
had set up on the Dakota to monitor the input tracks... I
assume that the pathing was taking too much from the
processor?
So... the second night. The first half was great -
virtually no pops... the second half, however, the problem
came back. Any guesses what might have caused this?
I'm thinking that the drive was working close to it's limit
and as it got closer to being full, the performance
diminished? Will installing an IDE Raid help?
One additional annoyance: After I finished recording, it
took an EXTREMELY long time to give me control back of my
machine.
Does anyone else out there have any similar problems?? Or
exprience with extended record times? (45 - 60 minutes)
The Beast:
Celeron 333
256MB RAM
4 Gig "System" drive (C:)
Maxtor 40Gig 7200RPM DMA/100 Drive (Data Only)
Win 98
Frontier Designs Dakota