7.1 cs8 is very reliable now :)

[crizdee]

Hi,

Just thought i would report a busy period of over 3 weeks now with cs8 and lots of third party plugs and VI and 100% reliability. I know 3 weeks doesn't seem amazing!! but i have been running some heavy session with loads of plugs and lots of VI synths and VST wrapped stuff and i have had no quits. (a few error messages regarding soundtoys when closing, but nothing to trouble me)

I see some posts from people who are still shy of upgrading to 7!! all i can say is, if my rig is stable with all my third party stuff running, then i'm sure PT 7.1 cs8 itself is every bit as stable as 6.9 was.

So, 100% reliability just in time for 7.2

Chris

[Stig Eliassen]

Thanks for reporting, Chris.

You're not by any chance losing outputs from VI's and RTAS plug-ins, are you? It happens to me when de-activating VI tracks, deleting tracks etc...

[proxy]

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the info.

Have you encountered any ADC values being incorrectly passed by plugs or other strange phase issues?

Any weird behavior having RTAS on your AUXes?

Those are two of the main things I'm wary of. Very useful post - thanks.

- proxy

[crizdee]

Thanks for reporting, Chris.

You're not by any chance losing outputs from VI's and RTAS plug-ins, are you? It happens to me when de-activating VI tracks, deleting tracks etc...

Hi,

No, i haven't experienced this, i tend not to delete tracks too often, i rather set voice from Dyn (dynamic)to none to release the voice back for use!! i have experienced problems in the past with deleting tracks, but not for quite a while now.

What exactly is happening? is the output still showing but with no sound travelling through?

Chris

[DigiTechSupt]

We would definitely like to hear more specific info about the problems you're having.

Are you sure you're running the very latest versions of all plug-ins?

[crizdee]

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the info.

Have you encountered any ADC values being incorrectly passed by plugs or other strange phase issues?

Any weird behavior having RTAS on your AUXes?

Those are two of the main things I'm wary of. Very useful post - thanks.

- proxy

Hi,

Well ADC did trick me for a while when i first went to 7! having the ability to mix and match RTAS and TDM in succession was making a real big change on how the ADC was working, and especially when changing the HW playback buffer, for example, changing the buffer from 512 to 256 would double the reported ADC on tracks that had RTAS and TDM mixed and matched. since this new RTAS ability in PT7 the ADC has more factors to condider and take into account!! i try to leave my buffer at 256 now, this seems to be the best compromise for playback and ADC.

I haven't seen any phase issues, there was a fix in CS8 for several of the phase issues reported!

I use drumagog and have seen posts regading the audio's position after the bounce! i don't see anything abnormal, i always use the advanced setting then drag the audio back to align it with the original. with something like drumagog that has a complex triggering algorithm,i think there's never going to be perfect alignment after a bounce. it's certainly no different from 6.9 on Panther!!


I have RTAS on my aux's all the time! all my waves are RTAS and i don't see any issue's at all.

Chris

[crizdee]

We would definitely like to hear more specific info about the problems you're having.

Are you sure you're running the very latest versions of all plug-ins?

Who is this question for? i'm saying my rig is reliable now and that i'm getting no quits!!

Chris

[JSR]

Thanks for the report Chris; couple of questions: Are you doing any large track counts at 88.2/96 & are you doing a lot of external IO routing?

Thanks.

[Stig Eliassen]

I guess this query was meant for me.

First, I've pulled all VI's from the plug-in folder, but that didn't help.

This is 100% reproducible.

- One instrument track with B4 (greyed out as it's no longer in the plug-ins folder)
- This track is routed to Main 1-2, and bussed to bus 1
- One mono aux track with Altiverb 5.4.4 inserted, and input set to bus 1
- One stereo audio track routed to Main 1-2, and bussed to bus 1

Every time I de-activate the instrument track I lose output from the aux track with Altiverb. When I open Altiverb I see that both input and output meters shows activity, but the aux track itself stops throughputting audio.
To fix it I just re-assign the output of the aux track to Main 1-2. Needless to say, this can be tedious work in big sessions.

[DigiTechSupt]

The question is for Proxy, who is reporting problems with RTAS plug-ins and instruments.