[ddots-l] Re: BFD nightmare continues
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:18:20 +0100
Hi Damon,
If you are getting “crashes” it is essential to try and see
if an error message is occurring and what it says. If this
is not appearing in screen at the time, then in will often
appear in the Event Logs on your system.
Go to control Panel, and select Administrative Tools. You
will find Event Viewer in there, so open it up.
The dialog view is very much like Windows Explorer, with
folders such as Application, Security, etc. down the left
pane, and individual items, or more correctly in this case,
Events, down the right.
These events will be dated and time stamped, and double
clicking on them will produce a more detailed dialog. If
you examine these logs immediately after a crash, you may be
able to pinpoint one or more events which occurred at that
time.
Now this is a rather technical area, but contain messages
like the following for example. “Volume Shadow Copy Service
error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback
interface. hr = 0x80070005. This is often caused by
incorrect security settings in either the writer or
requestor process.”. Such a message may not mean much to
you, but it gives us something to go hunting round the web
for.
In an ideal world, if you can force a crash to occur, you
can then first clear all the logs by right clicking on each
folder, and selecting “Clear” (No need to save them at this
point. Then force the crash, and go immediately back and
look at the logs.
If you do get error logs, then right click on the folder
containing the errors and save the log to a file. Send me
the file or files off list to HYPERLINK
"mailto:George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
k , and I’ll see if I can establish what the problem might
be.
George.
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Damon
Fibraio
Sent: 29 September 2007 17:55
To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx; ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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