[ddots-l] Re: BFD nightmare continues

Hi Damon!!

Really sorry to here that.  I should shoot an E-mail to FXpansion.  They may 
have some thoughts to offer.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Damon Fibraio 
  To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx ; ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:54 PM
  Subject: [ddots-l] BFD nightmare continues


  OK, I'll toss this out to anybody who has experience with soft synths and 
maybe I can figure out why this is happening. The scenario is as follows: My 
DAW is currently an aMD Athlon xp 3000plus processor with 2gb of ddr400 Ram. My 
hard drives are all eide ata100 or 133 drives, the primary is a 250, the 
secondary is a 400 and the third one is a 200. I forget how they are chained on 
the ide bus, though, maybe I can jockey that around a bit. I am running windows 
xp sp2, sonar 6.21 producer edition, JAWS 8.0.2173 and the latest caketalking. 
I have dimension pro, which works fine, Native Instruments b4 2, which also 
works fine and the latest version of BFD, which is not doing so well. I had 
issues with audio dropouts while playing the BFD drums, even when using bfd 
stereo in standalone mode. I also started having crashes occur when Sonar would 
load my project that contained the BFD all plugin with a kit inserted. The 
procedure would go, load project, wait a few seconds while BFD loaded all its 
kit pieces, then an unhandled exception would occur in BFD which would also 
take out Sonar. What I thought my mistake was was that when I installed BFD, I 
put all the data on the c: drive with the OS. I tried moving the data to my e: 
drive, which isn't doing anything, really, just storing music. So, my c: drive 
is my OS, my d: drive is my audio streaming drive for audio tracks in Sonar, 
and now my e: drive would be streaming the BFD samples. The dropout issues 
seems to have improved, but the crash still occurs. So, I uninstalled BFD 
completely and removed any and all bfd related folders. I then scanned my 
system for spyware, defragged all three drives after doing disk cleanup on all 
of the, and reinstalled BFD the way I had it before, i.e. data going to e: 
drive. The crash didn't occur until I loaded a particular kit, I forget which 
one. BFD is updated with all the patches I could find on the web site. My 
questions are: Is my computer not powerful enough to handle this synth? I can't 
imagine why it wouldn't be. I am running the audio through the tascam fw1884, 
latency slider seems to be best at 50 percent. My Motif xs7 is the midi 
controller running through USB to the computer. I am at a loss and don't know 
what to do. I know my computer is a little lacking in the power department and 
I have full intention of updating to a better system as money lets me, but for 
now, I really want to get these drums to work, and I can't figure out why I am 
getting crashes. I believe the kit I am loading is the Pearl kit, but would 
have to double check. Any ideas from you soft synth experts?

   

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