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Old 08-19-2011, 08:28 AM
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Hey guys !

Sometimes when I press the play button ( no matter If I use the transport, the keyboard or my command 8 ) the stop button goes on in the same time and the software gets in PAUSE mode...

It happends and solves by itself, wihtout any kind of logic...

Any ideas ?

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Old 08-19-2011, 08:52 AM
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It's an old bug that's been around since at least 7.0. It crops up occasionally on just a few systems (Windows and Mac) but I don't think anyone has ever nailed down just exactly what elements of a system cause it to appear.

On 9.x Mac, I have seen it occur a half dozen times. I'm always able to get it to go away for a few days by changing the H/W Buffer Size in the Playback Engine dialog.
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Old 08-19-2011, 09:19 AM
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Never happened for me on 7, but in 8 and 9 this occurs when I leave a session open and unattended for a long period of time. You can usually solve it by quitting and reopening.
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Old 08-19-2011, 10:06 AM
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Oh, interesting. For me, every Mac occurrence has been on the first attempt after launching the program. Such a transient, elusive critter.
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Old 08-19-2011, 02:51 PM
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it happens only since I upgraded to lion / 9.0.5...

changing the buffer size helps. bit I'd like to get this point as reliable as it use to be.

thanks for the help anyway ! :)
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Old 08-24-2011, 06:10 AM
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I was wrong about what I do to fix it. It had to happen again for me to remember. Gettin' old sucks. What I actually do is Command-2, switch Clock Source to S/PDIF. Since there's nothing connected there, it automatically reverts to Internal with a warning message. After that, all good for days.
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Old 08-26-2011, 09:14 AM
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this is an awful little bug. it's been happening to me about 6-8 times a day since upgrading to PT9 and Lion. It totally sucks. i can't even find a pattern as to what provokes it. One minute I'm able to play/record just fine, the next minute, it's in pause mode and the transport won't play the session at all. i'm totally locked up. I'm sure it's an OSX Lion / PT 9 thing.

This is a complete annoyance. Avid, please tell me you're looking into this. It's terrible.
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I'm popping in to let everyone know this is something we're working on! I'll update this thread as more info becomes available, especially if we find a good workaround.
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Old 08-26-2011, 03:59 PM
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Hi DigiTechSupt

I'm sure you don't need to see this but if it helps, I have recorded a short video with this happening several times on my system. It happened once or twice when I moved to Lion PT 9.0.5 but now it seems to happen every few minutes. Changing HW Buffer ALWAYS sorts it out (at least for a few mins).

This is the video:



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I'm popping in to let everyone know this is something we're working on! I'll update this thread as more info becomes available, especially if we find a good workaround.
this is good to hear. i just upgraded to PT 9.0.5 and Lion 7.1 and this issue has been happening to me all day long. I've been on the phone with Avid for 2 hours. We tried clean uninstall, preferences trash, and other troubleshooting. The play/pause things is now happening about every 10 minutes. It's ruining my session and productivity.

I'd say it's more than a little bug. It's a session-breaker, at least on my end.

Please find a fix. I'm desperate.
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