Bounce handler cannot keep up. (-9132)

[digitalint]

Anyone ever see this error? It's occuring while bouncing a 55 min. audio.

[OddsAre]

yeah thats a huge bounce... its basically not being able to keep up. I've had it happen with smaller songs, but usually a restart of PT, making sure no other programs are running, that kinda stuff helps.

how many tracks?

How many plugins?

What's your Hardware Buffer set to?

Also are you bouncing to and from your internal hard drive. Thats a huuuuge no no! That would be the answer if so. I have found that using SATA drives in my Mac Pro have performed amazingly for bouncing duties. If you have the money, got to www.macsales.com and buy a SATA card for your Express card slot and an external SATA drive enclosure. That will definitely help in the long run if you are doing this for a living. Let us know the details.

[digitalint]

I just found these on the Support Search page (which I'll try #2):

"A couple possible solutions exist for this:

1. Reduce the Disk Cache in the Apple Memory Control Panel to 512k and restart the computer.

2. Close all unnecessary windows such as Plug-Ins and the Big Counter before proceeding with a Bounce To Disk.

3. Allocate more preferred memory to the Pro Tools LE and DAE applications. Click on the icon once to highlight it and choose File>Get Info in the Finder (shortcut: Command+I). Increase the DAE Preferred size to 70000k (70MB) and Pro Tools LE to 60000k (60MB). Never change the Minimum memory size. If you have, reset DAE Minimum size to 30000k and Pro Tools Minimum to 35320k."

[jre3132]

Based on your post, I take it you're new to the DUC and didn't know to search before posting. Information on that topic has been discussed before and solutions are out. If you're bouncing 55 minutes of audio, a better alternative for you would be to RTD (which means recording your main output to a stereo track within Pro Tools, then exporting the file). If an error came up, this method would allow you to punch in just before the error and not have to start over. Depending on who you ask, RTD produces a better sound than bouncing to disk too. I happen to agree. Search for bounce handler to solve your current problem and/or RTD to learn a new method that will get you a better quality final mix. You may like that method better.

Here is a link to one of those threads.

[digitalint]

5 tracks (approx. 55 min. each). Actually there are two 3+ hour audio's that I've had to break up into 3 sections cause I can only fit 74 min. on a CD. So I broke the audio out. When I go to bounce, I solo all but the one I want to bounce. No efx/plug-ins, just raw audio. The first track went fine, it's just blowing up on the second track.

Okay, well I must admit, you may have identified the problem. Yes, internal HD. I have procrastinated on buying the Glyph GT050Q - 120GB, so I'll probably end up doing that before this is all said and done. Hardware buffer is set to 512 (I'll try increasing it). Thx!

[OddsAre]

before you start messing with OSX settings figure out if its a PT issue. The RTD bounce was a great idea by JRE. Don't go messing with setting all over your computer when the solution is most probably much simpler.

[digitalint]

What system settings are you referring to? I believe that I said I was going to close all my open apps, then increase the hardware buffer size in PT (as well as buy the Glyph GT050Q - 120GB).

JRE, thanks for the link. I'll admit I'm new to the DUC, however I did do a search for this topic (Bounce handler cannot keep up. (-9132)) within the Pro Tools LE Mac Systems: 003, 002, Mbox, 001, and it netted nothing (but I did find it in the Support Search at digidesign's site). I'll also admit that I'm too new to understand what outside of my subject I should be looking for... Thx

[OddsAre]

yes undoubtedly the issue... basically the internal can't keep up with all the tasks. The glyph drives are great but if you think you will ever push the envelope to over 32 tracks, go with SATA. I had some bouncing and playback issues as I got above 32 tracks after I upgraded to the Music Production Toolkit. Basically DAE issues where the firewire drive couldn't keep up. Since FW is 400Mbps and SATA II is 3000Mbps. Obviously the faster drive can transfer more data. Also backing up and file transfer between 2 SATA drives is soooo much quicker. Here's the card I talked about earlier:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apiotek/EC0003D/

here are a ton of options for enclosures above and beyond the full line at MacSales:

http://www.cooldrives.com/usb20cdrwdvd.html

and Newegg.com has great prices on Seagate SATA drives. Glyph uses stock Seagate drives as far as I know, but puts Glyph on the label.

This is of course if you like to tinker and put this stuff all together. I'm a fan of that. Food for thought...

[jre3132]

interesting. well, I'll be the first to admit, I've searched, found nothing, posted, then found similiar threads. Sometimes the search function is a little odd (I think it has to do with the time period thing...newer/older than... Are you familiar with RTD and how to set it up? If not, we can walk you through it.

Odds has it on the Glyph drives...they're great. I've also had good success (so far...about 1.5 years) with lacie porsche drives.

[digitalint]

To answer your statement, yes, I like to tinker. I haven't done much research on Ext HD's yet and the little I did I found that digidesign approves the Glyph drives. Yeah, I upgraded LE with the Music Production Toolkit as well, so I'll start researching the SATA options! Thanks much for the tip!!!