[ddots-l] BFD nightmare continues
- From: "Damon Fibraio" <dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:54:59 -0400
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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