Won't Bounce to Disk - too many plug-ins!

[rfrank]

I just started using the ProToolsFree and keep getting bounced out of "bounce to Disk". It keeps telling me it is running out of CPU power and that I should reduce some of my plug-ins. I'm currently using VocAlign to do dialog replacement for a video.
I've readjusted the DAE buffer to all combinations of settings. No luck.

I've boosted the RAM allocation to both the DAE (60M) and ProTools (300M). I've also readjusted the CPU Usage Limit. (60% to 85%).

I'm running a 9500 with a G3 266Mhz card and OS 8.6.

The older Free ProTools works quite nicely.

Help.

Ron Frank

[MacDaddy WGAR]

Ron, I would think 266mhz would be enough but you never know. I have a 7300 with an Xlr8 G3 300 oc'd to 400 and only 112mb ram so i have DAE/PT using about 30/35 respectively I'm going to work on a session tonight using a lot of the digi plugs and try to do a bounce I'll post back tonight.

Bill

[MacDaddy WGAR]

Hi Ron, I did a test and here is what I had.
I was using about 8 plug ins all the Digi supplied and the fact they take advantage of the DSP manager may have something to do with the cpu usage at about half. Compressor & 4 band Eq on two voice tracks, 2 sends each voice track to 2 returns using delays, 1band eq, compressor Limiter on master fader. Had audio on 4 audio tracks sent to two sub mixers.
It was a 15 second piece and bounced to disk nicely. I rechecked my settings and have 35mb allocated to DAE, 30mb to PT. CPU usage is set to 75%

I think your cpu may have something to do with it. Can you overclock it or do you want to? The 266 has been reported to go into the low 300's, 313 is best stable setting I have seen. Also have you verified that the Vocalalign is the most recent version? That is about all I can think of.

Bill

[BCBud]

It is weird that it gave you the Plug-in error considering that Vocalign is not an RTAS plugin. But, I was just looking on the Vocalign website and it said it was not compatible with Protools free.

[BCBud]

Jeez, I am sorry actually on the Vocalign site all you have to do is get an update file and it should work.

[rfrank]

I went over to the VocAlign web site and there is a patch but it is for VocAlignPro. I've got VocAlignAS v1.0.

What I don't understand is that when I try to bounce to disk a file that's already been processed with an Audio Suite Plug-in, I'm getting the "too many plug-ins" message. All I'm trying to do is write an existing file to an AIFF or SD file.

Is a 9500 with a G3-266 processor (and OS 9.0.4) that antiquated?

Ron Frank