Everyone stop using ARA right now

[midnightrambler]

This was literally fine at 11.30pm last night. And now it isn't. And LITERALLY the only thing that's changed between then and now is I managed to get some sleep.

So sick of this.

[midnightrambler]

I can't tell you how upset I am about this. It was sounding SO good last night. Feel like I should invoice AVID and Celemony for wasting my f'ing time.

[mr xy]

oooof. I feel your pain.

I've had a few minor disastors with ARA myself. I still use it now but my approach is to do the editing and then commit before I close the session, saving an unprocessed version in a playlist if I think there is any possibility I may want to revisit anything. Not ideal but it's certainly not to be trusted. It's great tech, I hope it works reliably one day.

[Rich Breen]

Originally Posted by midnightrambler

This was literally fine at 11.30pm last night. And now it isn't. And LITERALLY the only thing that's changed between then and now is I managed to get some sleep.

So sick of this.

I had this error pop up once in the last few weeks on a melodyne-heavy project I was working on. Same as you; did a bunch of work on a track (reliable, trouble free external SSD), closed the session, opened it the next day, and that scary message popped up. Fortunately it seemed spurious as there was nothing lost that I could find, but it's *very* disconcerting. I wish Avid would give us some clue as to WTF is going on under the hood here and what conditions might possibly cause this.

The new workflow is great, but if we can't rely on it it's useless.

[marianna]

Originally Posted by midnightrambler

This was literally fine at 11.30pm last night. And now it isn't. And LITERALLY the only thing that's changed between then and now is I managed to get some sleep.

So sick of this.

Jeff

Im so sorry this happened... ugh but I did create a case for you and have asked the audio techs to check into this and see why Melodyne is throwing these errors.

Case # 04643867

Marianna

[Eric Lambert]

I appreciate your responses on the forum, Marianna.

These ARA issues keep popping up and because of that I've stayed away from Melodyne entirely. I hope the gremlins are found soon.

[marianna]

Originally Posted by Eric Lambert

I appreciate your responses on the forum, Marianna.

These ARA issues keep popping up and because of that I've stayed away from Melodyne entirely. I hope the gremlins are found soon.

Thanks Eric... I wish that cases had been created and tech could have looked or my team itself could have but Jeff is having issues now so Im going to forge ahead with that. If you decide to forge ahead and tried it again and do have issues ( I hope you don't ) then PLEASE ping me on email at [email protected]

Want to fix this stuff but need to reproduce it to do so.
Marianna

[albee1952]

Meanwhile, Melodyne still works perfectly fine as a plugin. I use it that way for the vast majority of my needs and only use the ARA version for a quick fix, which I immediately commit

[Eric Lambert]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Meanwhile, Melodyne still works perfectly fine as a plugin.

Good point. I should have clarified that I use Melodyne, just not w/ ARA.

[lesbrunn]

Originally Posted by mr xy

oooof. I feel your pain.

I've had a few minor disastors with ARA myself. I still use it now but my approach is to do the editing and then commit before I close the session, saving an unprocessed version in a playlist if I think there is any possibility I may want to revisit anything. Not ideal but it's certainly not to be trusted. It's great tech, I hope it works reliably one day.

+1 for saving unedited tracks and committing. My way around ARA issues is to:

1. Edit very short clips at a time (that way there are no stalls while ARA is saving. I don't even get the ARA saving message.)
2. Render Melodyne edits
3. Commit the rendered clips

Even after doing this I sometimes get those ARA error messages when I open a session, but there's no grief because the edits have been rendered. You can always revisit clips if you need to do more editing, or copy unedited clips for re-editing if you need to.