win7 VCA bug in pro tools 10.3.7

[studiosus]

Hullo there,

I recently moved over from a macintosh to the pc world. I never had this bugs on my powerbook. The problem or the bug is as follows:

I have a VCA master for a bunch of audio tracks, lets say for drums. I set the leves of the individual slave drum tracks. After that I start to automate the drums using the VCA master during my session.

While listning back my automation, I realize I need more of one slave track, lets say snare, during my chorus.

So I selct the chorus in the edit window and switch on Dynamic Transport. I hit play and move up the snare track a little bit to the level where it sits right. When I have found my level I hit the manual "write to all" button in the automation window.

Then the mess starts. Instead of writing a straight line with my new level over my selction on the snare track, the VCA Automation from the VCA master and my new is coalesced to the snare track.

So I have suddenly all my moves and breakpoints from the VCA master also on my snare track. This snare track is still a slave to my VCA master. So I have the same automation and breakpoints doubled on this track. All of sudden, the level of the snare is now moving twice as much as it should.

If I do exact the same thing as described above, but my slave tracks are in trim mode and i do the level changes by using trim, all is as it should.

Has anyone else experienced this bizarre behaving?

here is kind of a sandra report. (it's from a belarc report, almost the same info, but belarc is free)


Processor a
3,20 gigahertz Intel Core i7-3930K
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
12288 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (6 total)
Hyper-threaded (12 total)

Main Circuit Board b
Board: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P9X79 Rev 1.xx
Serial Number:
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 3102 11/02/2012

Memory Modules c,d
16330 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'ChannelA_Dimm1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'ChannelA_Dimm2' is Empty
Slot 'ChannelB_Dimm1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'ChannelB_Dimm2' is Empty
Slot 'ChannelC_Dimm1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'ChannelC_Dimm2' is Empty
Slot 'ChannelD_Dimm1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'ChannelD_Dimm2' is Empty

Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 119,93 GB 43,04 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 1) 1499,96 GB 290,12 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 2) 1500,09 GB 274,04 GB free
g: (NTFS on drive 3) 500,07 GB 54,95 GB free

Display

ASUS EAH6450 Series [Display adapter]
Maxdata BelArtist22W [Monitor] (22,0"vis, s/n 063500412345, Oktober 2006)

Controllers
Asmedia 106x SATA Controller
ATA Channel 0 [Controller]
ATA Channel 1 [Controller]

Bus Adapters
Intel(R) C600 series chipset SATA AHCI Controller
ASMedia XHCI Controller (2x)
Intel(R) C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1 - 1D26
Intel(R) C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #2 - 1D2D

Printers
Microsoft Shared Fax Driver on SHRFAX:
Microsoft XPS Document Writer on XPSPort:

Communications
Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection

Connection Speed: 1 Gbps
Intel(R) PRO/1000 GT-Desktopadapter
primary
Connection Speed: 1 Gbps

Operating System
Windows 7 Professional (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)

[studiosus]

no one working with vca's?

[albee1952]

Plenty of VCA's in my sessions but never any of this sort of issue. Maybe its due to my different workflow. If i need to adjust a track in a group, I suspend the group, adjust the volume with the mouse(showing the volume lane) and then re-enable the group.