001 recording start takes forever

[jtrolka]

Hey, I have a 001 running off of a G4 Titanium via a Magma CB2 expansion chassis using a Glyph compansion (firewire) as my tracking drive. Playback is fine. I hit the spacebar and it goes even with 18+ tracks. Recording though, even in a session with no other audio, it takes PT quite awhile to start recording, maybe as much as 30 seconds after I tell it to record. It didn't used to do this, so I imagine I have switched some button somewhere. I'm in low latency mode, but I belive that's for monitoring anyway, and wouldn't have an impact on this. Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Jeff

[J. Guerrero]

If you press on the transport the Rec button, then you press the Alt/Option key while clicking the Play button, you'll experiment the pause without Pro Tools actually starting to record and you'll see your system will be unresponsive for a few seocnds. When the pause is over, your system will be back, then just press Play or the spacebar and Pro Tools will start to record instantly.

[artguilljr]

oh yeah make sure your not in quickpunch. when your in quick your essentially recording double the amount of tracks your actually recording. this bogs you down big time.

[keyboardgod]

Have a look at your preferences.There is a setting for how many minutes to give to recording and I think it's 60 by default.try reducing this to 15mins or so
hope this helps

[artguilljr]

try adjusting your buffer setting in your hardware setup
it's default to 2 but anything higher will make recording really slow anything less will make you have HD cannot keep up errors

[jtrolka]

Yeah, I tried playing with the DAE buffer settings last night. I had it set to zero, but I'll have to try some other settings. Thanks

Jeff