looooonnnng delay before record starts

[John H]

I thought the digi001 wasn't supported on the beige G3s ?

I used to get quite long delays before it would record when I was just using my internal IDE drive (5400rpm fireball, not a good drive). I can run all 24 tracks at 24 bit 48Khz off my second drive (7200rpm deskstar), no delays on record or playback at all.

Obviously, you're disk cache should be set to 512K and you should be running with as few extensions as possible so there's nothing accessing the drives while you record, virus killers norton filesaver etc... will interfere with disk performance.

Seeing as you're using a 10,000rpm SCSI drive it should perform aswell as mine does, infact it should be better.

I do remember reading that digidesign don't support the Digi001 on the original G3 desktops.

[Mr T]

Try lowering the transfer rate...I have an Adaptec 29160 and had to lower the rate from 80 to 40 Mb in order to make it work properly...

[marchhare]

I'm sure you know this already, but in case you
don't, try setting the amount of time pro-tools
will record to maximum 10 minutes in the
preferences window. That may help.

[mattpete]

Beige G3s aren't supported for 001.

[accession]

Originally posted by marchhare:
I'm sure you know this already, but in case you
don't, try setting the amount of time pro-tools
will record to maximum 10 minutes in the
preferences window. That may help.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yes, that's the first thing to check (assuming everything else is compatible).

Otherwise Pro Tools spends time trying to work out exactly how much space its got before starting.

Phil

[bjorn for a reason]

biege g3 w/digi 001 384 meg ram atto scci card 10,000 rpm cheeta, takes 20 seconds!!! to begin recording. if i record to ata drive its instantainious, but only 16 or so tracks will play back. am i missing something? so used to TDM rigs, this is unusable

[Michael Cottrell]

The simplest suggestion i have is to try setting your disk cache setting 512k in the memory control panel.

[bjorn for a reason]

Thanks for the quick replies fellas, this LE stuff is a new thing for me. I know biege G3 is not officially supported, but it was lying around looking sad and i"m a glutton for punishment. Will try all of your suggestions. for the next few days i'm a stay home dad, and my 1 yr old is eager to bash away on the v-drums.