Long Pause When I Hit Record/How Do I Fix????

[bambamrubble]

i am using a mix3 with a mac quick silver 944mhz ....5.1.3 protools version.....when i record 11 drum tracks at once the little hand starts grabbing for a very long time,over 15 seconds before it goes into record.....even when i am recording one track ...there is a pause for a few seconds....what can i do to fix this????

[Mixchump]

Preferences, 'Record allocation' is likely set to 'Use All available Space' instead of specifying 10 minutes, or something reasonable...

That'll get you rolling much quicker.

Cheers

[Rail Jon Rogut]

In your prefs.. change the Open Ended Record Allocation to a value like 10 minutes.

Rail

[Barnabas]

On that vesion of PT, Mute Frees Voice makes the record delay longer. Turn it off and see if that helps.

[ajazzie]

You havent got the 2 bars checked in the transport window have you?

That has had me before as I am using a c24 and didnt have the transport window showing on the screen.

[Fokke van Saane]

beside setting the allocate size as others said, you could also make a selection and then press record.
Optimize your HD. That won't solve the problem for long though.

OSX has this problem solved.