PT 9 is beyond me :(

[Ralf_T]

Here is what happened to me and what is leaving me clueless and totally desperate:

I decided to learn myself into mixing by the end of last year. I was also curious about when I will hit the wall regarding the capability of my HP Pavilion DV8 1050eg to process audio/do mixing.

At that time my laptop was everything but a dedicated machine for mixing/audio processing. I still had the preinstalled OS (Win7 64bit) on it, along with some useless (at least for me) programs and features provided by HP. I also had MS Office, SPSS, Skype, Nero and some other stuffed installed on it. Other than a standard tweak regarding visual effects and preventing some services from loading at startup, no optimization tweaks have been applied to that laptop. Nearly none of the optimization tweaks recommended by AVID have been applied.

About two month ago I was about in the middle of a mixing training session. By that time I had 53 plugins loaded. Honestly speaking, this was already more than I expected being able to load, even with my UAD2 SOLO/Laptop card. And there was still headroom for loading more plugins: 30% CPU load on my laptop, 40% DSP load on the UAD2. That looked fine!

I then ran into what later turned out to be the SansAmp bug. Error messages again and again. I decided to do a complete reinstallation, and get rid of the programs and features I do not need and did all the tweaks recommended by AVID. I spent five weeks reinstalling over and over again, because the session still crashed. Yeah, the SansAmp plugin was still loaded. After posting that issue here, some guys gave me a hint on that. Problem solved? Nope. Now my Waves plugins are exhibiting a freaky behaviour: Kramer Master Tape causes a CPU overload and digital distortion when loading. Some of the control knobs graphics do not load immediately. When you click on where they are supposed to be, they appear. But once the GUI is loaded completely KMT suppresses all the audio output. A similar thing happens with the VEQ4. When activated some of the knobs are missing. Playing back the audio the track gets badly distorted ...

I have absolutely no clue on why I cannot load even a single Waves plugin after reinstalling my system and doing all the tweaks recommended. It is beyond me why I have been able to run tons of those Waves plugins on my suboptimally configured system, and why I cannot after reinstalling and tweaking my system.

Waves tech support is taking care of that, but as yet they have no idea. The VST-plugins work well; I installed a demo version of FL Studio, no issues with those plugins. Looks like I will have to switch to Cubase 6 ...

Any hints, suggestions, or experiences are welcome!

FWIW, here is my Sandra (OS, PT, and plugins on C:, Session files/audio on G:):

Computer
Model: HP Pavilion dv8 Notebook PC 103C_5335KV
Serial Number: CNF9419X1B
Chassis: HP Notebook
Mainboard: HP 7001
Serial Number: CNF9419X1B
BIOS: HP F.25 05/31/2010
Bus(es): PCI PCIe IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Total Memory: 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM

Processors
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz (4C 8T 1.73GHz/2.8GHz Turbo, 2GHz IMC,4x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)

Chipset
Memory Controller: HP Core (Clarksfield/Lynnfield) DMI 2x 2.4GHz (4.79GHz) FSB
Memory Controller: HP Core Mobile (Clarksfield) UnCore 2x 2.13GHz (4.26GHz) FSB, 2x 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM 2x 665MHz (1.33GHz)

Memory Module(s)
Memory Module: A-Data 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-10700S DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module: A-Data 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-10700S DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)

Video System
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (32 SM4.1 1.1GHz/1GHz 9% OC, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit, PCIe2.00 x16)

Graphics Processor
OpenCL GP Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (48SP 6C 1.1GHz/1GHz 9% OC, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit)
Compute Shader Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (32SP 1.1GHz/1GHz 9% OC, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit)
CUDA GP Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (48SP 6C 1.1GHz/1GHz 9% OC, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit)

Storage Devices
Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, :466GB (C:) (D:) (E:)
Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, :466GB (F:) (G:)
hp BDDVDRW CT10L (SATA150:N/A (H:)

Logical Storage Devices
SWAP (F:): 16GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache)
MEDIA (G:):450GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache)

SYSTEM:199MB (NTFS)
Hard Disk (C:):237GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache)
RECOVERY (E:): 15GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache)
DATA (D:): 213GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST9500420AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache)
Optical Drive (H:):N/A @ hp BDDVDRW CT10L (SATA150, BD-R, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, SSD, 4MB Cache)

Peripherals
LPC Hub Controller 1: HP PM55 LPC Interface Controller
Audio Device: HP P55/PM55/3400 High Definition Audio
Audio Codec: Integrated Device Tech 7603h
Audio Device: HP High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Codec: nVidia 000Ah
Audio Codec: nVidia 000Ah
Audio Codec: nVidia 000Ah
Disk Controller: HP P55/PM55/3400 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
Disk Controller: HP Standard SD Host Controller
USB Controller 1: HP P55/PM55/3400 USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Controller 2: HP P55/PM55/3400 USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller 1:HP IEEE 1394 Host Controller
SMBus/i2c Controller 1:Intel ICH SMBus

Network Services
Network Adapter: Realtek RTL8168D/8111D-Familie-PCI-E-Gigabit-Ethernet-NIC (NDIS 6.20) (Ethernet, 100Mbps)

Operating System
Windows System:Microsoft Windows 7 Home 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1)
Platform Compliance: x64

Windows Experience Index
Current System:5.9

[albee1952]

The SansAmp bug might be fixed by inserting a dither plugin before the SansAmp plugin Any computer will do its best by using it for audio and nothing else. I keep a $99 off-lease hp desktop for internet and all non-recording work

[Bamusic]

Yep, I do my interwebs on a P4 2.8 running xp

[aklru]

Ralf; I had similar problems with Waves on my machine, this fix worked for me:

Go to Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel.

Select Regional and Language Options.

Click on the Customize icon.

Make the following changes:
- Decimal symbol: . (dot)
- Digit grouping symbol: , (comma)
- List separator: , (comma)
- Negative number format: -1.1

[Ralf_T]

Thank you for the hint. Waves Tech Support already suggested this fix. Tried it with no success.

Switched to Cubase 6, no glitches with my plugins anymore

[bootybandit]

Originally Posted by Ralf_T

Thank you for the hint. Waves Tech Support already suggested this fix. Tried it with no success.

Switched to Cubase 6, no glitches with my plugins anymore

Same here.........a lot of glitches gone! Cubase 6.0.5 x64 crusin' alone!