[ddots-l] Re: BFD nightmare continues
- From: "Damon Fibraio" <dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:41:48 -0400
Phil. After working all day on this, here's what I have found. The bfd was
crashing when loading in the pearl or the ayote kits. These, naturally, are
the biggest kits. I turned off all the animation and turned on 16 bit
processing and this helped, at least until I loaded them into sonar, when it
totally took out the whole computer once I began to play or record. From
what I have determined, bfd and sonar just overload my athlon 3000 with 2gb
of ram. In short, I need a new system to use BFD. I am not a happy guy. I
tried switching from asio drivers to wdm on the tascam and tweaking latency
and such, and making sure the whole subsystem was 16 bit and no higher and
it just won't do it. I can play the drums just fine on their own now at
least, and even edit the kits, etc, but I can't record with them, which kind
of defeats the purpose, a shame, too since this bfd can be made very
accessible with hsc, not to mention it can be mapped to hardware control
using CC values and if you use BFD all as the plugin, I can mix the levels
of each piece of a drum kit, the room and pzm mics, etc, using the tascam to
control the tracks individually. So, it is possible to use this, but not
when the damn pc blows up when I try to record. I am so bummed out I could
cry.
--
Damon Fibraio
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Muir
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:01 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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.
Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
URL:
www.philmuir.com/
Band website:
www.steelstringmusic.co.uk/
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www.myspace.com/steelstringmusic
----- Original Message -----
From: Damon Fibraio <mailto:dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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?
--
Damon Fibraio
screen names -- aol: dfibraio...msn dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxxx skype: dfibraio
web sites: personal music site: http://www.keyboardguy.com. band:
http://www.queenoftheryche.com. Internet Radio station:
http://www.nhbradio.com
Internet radio show every Wednesday night from 8 to 11 pm eastern
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