2-3 sec delay before play..

[martian]

I have 6.4 and 10.3.9 and mbox

every day this week I have come to work on PT and at some point in the session - 15 mins to an hour - after searching in the browser - PT will slow down and waits 2 - 3 secs after pressing play b4 starting playback..

In the middle of something now - so will keep quitting and restarting PT - usually this clears it for a while...

have time 2mrrw to attempt surgery..

is it the digibases?

or do I need to re - install PT?

this machine has been reliable for the last 2 years....

But had a few hiccups recently... weirdness with routing busses to aux inputs- 1+2 worked but 3+4 didnt.... then nasty kernal panic last week.


cheers

[Phil Jeffers]

There's obviously no pre-roll set? I'd do the usual Digi troubleshooting palava & then clean your mac HDD (disk utilities > repair disk permission). After that, it's one for Digi...

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Make sure the count-off is disabled. What do the play and stop buttons do when you hit play?

Rail

[martian]

thanks guys!

not the count off ( 8 on numerical pad ) - I get a spinning beachball - heart in mouth... has it crashed? don't press play again whilst u wait - cos then it'll start playing and immediately stop... 4 more secs of fun!!!

palava recipes please?

will try the repair permissions - it has been a while.....

guess I will try dumping the databases... but it's a massive job - I got more than 120 gig of noise on here.... takes a while to index...

any thing else I can try before resorting to re- install PT 6.4 ?

thanks again

martian

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Open Ended Record Allocation.... set it to 10 minutes (for most purposes).

DAE Buffer size = 2 (default)

Rail

[martian]

check! I tried lowering the max rec duration already. tho the DAE was on 8 - if it happens again I will try changing the DAE buffer and see if that sorts it out...

Up til now it's been pretty stable - and I've frequently change things like the HW buffer's - etc to suit situation... better but riskier to record in 256

up against it today. will try the disk perms 2 mrrw..

the other thing is that after starting PT I'm getting a beach ball for a couple of mins and white windows - then everything is fine for a while.....

Not over the moon about being forced to take t breaks


thanks

[Loudnoize Ent.]

the other thing is that after starting PT I'm getting a beach ball for a couple of mins and white windows - then everything is fine for a while.....

martin,

Try running Disk Warrior, etc... rather than the simple, although sometimes effective Disk Utility. Seems like you have computer related issues rather than just PT. You may have to do a clean unistall. This always helps.

[martian]

just did a quick fix disk perms...

don't have diskwarrior - it fixed a few things - but still takes a while to start up - I do have around 200 gig of indexed sound online at the min...

maybe I will re do the databases first.

will carry on my editing tonight and see how the more annoying in consistan 2-3 sec delay works ( after resetting the DAE engine buffer to 2)

cheers guys

mart

[Sebastien Richard]

Did you try lowering the max record time yet.