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Old 10-02-2004, 11:54 AM
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Default Pencil tool not working completely

Hello all,

Back in August, I requested and received assistance when version 5.3.1 suddenly ceased to start. Advice I received was to "uninstall Pro Tools, delete dalwdm.sys reboot and reinstall" which worked like a charm except the Pencil tool failed to function. I recently found that the pencil tool does work for volume and pan automation. It just doesn't work for wave forms. It sure would be nice to fix some clicks and pops.

What could the problem be? Is it a software problem? Possibly some minor file gone bad like a hidden or .DLL file or something else I wouldn't understand? And the real questions are, of course, can this problem be fixed? And if so, how?

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Old 10-02-2004, 12:28 PM
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Default Re: Pencil tool not working completely

The pencil tool for waveforms only works when you're zoomed in pretty far. It also won't work on files imported from an OMF file - duplicate/consolidate the section before using the pencil in that case.

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Old 10-08-2004, 05:11 PM
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Hello Rail,

Thank you for your reply. I tried the pencil tool at maximum zoom level. The wave files I was using were not imported, but I tried duplicate/consolidate anyway. The pencil tool still did not work. I'm puzzled as to why the tool would work on volume automation but not wave forms. Any other suggestions?

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Old 10-08-2004, 11:53 PM
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Read this thread

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Old 10-11-2004, 02:57 PM
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Hello Rail,

I played around with all of the suggestions in the thread you referred me to, but still no luck. I'm still thinking on the problem, but I don't think I have enough knowledge, experience or practice to think of much else to do. I really do appreciate your help.

Anything else I can try?

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Old 10-11-2004, 03:13 PM
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How much RAM do you have installed?

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Old 10-16-2004, 05:27 PM
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Hello Rail,

The computer is a relatively new Dell 8400 Pentium 4 with 1024 MB RAM running Windows XP. Processor speed is 3.31 Ghz.

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Old 10-16-2004, 07:11 PM
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The AnswerBase has an entry where this issue has been seen with more than 512M of RAM... can you try running with only 512 to see what happens?

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Old 10-17-2004, 01:00 AM
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Default Re: Pencil tool not working completely

Hi,

I had similar problem and found it was the ZOOM tool not going in small enough which was caused by the excess song length. I selected ALL in the groups section, highlighted from just past the end of the last wave file to the very end of the edit screen capability then hit delete. This allowed me to zoom right in and use the Pencil.

As Rail said, this issue was in the answer base as that' swhere I found that fix.

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Old 10-20-2004, 10:54 AM
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How do you run a computer with less RAM? Is there some way to set it to run with 512 or is this a hardware thing?

(I also tried Big D's suggestions - the pencil tool failed to work still).

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