2018.7 So Far...

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Keybeeetsss

Question; when dragging a wave, or creating a fade, does the wave/space sorta disappear on you all's rig? I can't see it moving, so I have to look at the timeline cursor up top to see where I'm nudging the wave to. & on creating a fade, it goes blank as well until I'm done creating it.

View > Clip > Transparency

No fruit snacks? Must be losin' your mojo.

Shane

[Keybeeetsss]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

Hey Key, great to hear from you, it's been a while.

Here on Windows 10 the wave in the edit window becomes transparent when moving. But totally visible.

It's not the same around here without you. Come hang a little more often.

And check out this thread from an old friend.

The Keybeeetsss legend will never die.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=399644

Hahahahahaha Mannnnn,,, I am lmbo ON'EIM at that thread!!! Haha

& yeah TOM, I'm going to get back to hanging out over here; seeing this thread, & definitely THAT thread makes me miss this place!

But to my original question, yeah it's particular to my rig it looks like; I don't know if it's a w7 thing or just my rig; My Macs are fine though in relation to that on'eim

[TOM@METRO]

[CHRIS AIKEN]

Originally Posted by Ru_C

Just did a bit of a low-latency (32 samples) test on my (PT Vanilla) system.

I'd say its *marginally* improved from the last version, but the 'edit-page display taking up all the cpu' bug is still alive & true..

I'm attempting to record a pair of tracks on a busy session with a bunch of plugins.

With the edit-page showing, CPU use is around 85-90% and peaks every now & then over the course of a 4 min song to hit 100%

With neither the edit or mix page showing...the Pro-Tools CPU meter won't even budge past 30% even whilst tracking at 32samples latency...its much like using my TDM rig.

As soon as AVID get to the bottom of this & fix it, i'll gladly give them all my cash & get a brand spanking new HD Ultimate Native setup.

As it stands, Native for me makes a good mixing & home recording setup. With this fixed, i'd invest properly & use it in front of clients for tracking real-world sessions, but not before.

Yes it's definitely a bit better. I did some tests at a buffer of 32 (44.1 kHz) I had a couple audio tracks playing, Kontakt running Alicia keys piano playing midi, and the recording vocal track with two sends to Valhalla Room and Echo Boy. I got all the way through the song without a glitch.

I run two monitors, one of them is the Slate Raven. Once I tried switching the raven to "sends" view it started to have problems. It didn't stop with an error though, just static and pops in the playback.

This is a lot better for me than before but there still seems to graphics issues.

[SDDP]

Originally Posted by SigFriedChicken

Unfortunately, there is no supported way to install 10.13.3 since Apple no longer offers the base installation of 10.13. Unless you happened to already update to 10.13 prior to the release of 10.13.4, you're stuck. If you're lucky, you can stay on 10.12.x for a while.

It would be nice if there was more information from Avid regard what it is about the OS that is causing the performance issues. I realize that this may be a complex issue, but the reality is that both Apple and Microsoft are getting aggressive about inducing people to update to later versions at a faster pace. It's no longer realistic for a DAW vendor to simply throw their hands up and say that an OS revision is not supported nearly six months after its general release.

One possible way around this is to take your mac to an Apple store (set up a time with the Genius bar) and the can connect it directly to their servers and update. Call in first to verify.

This illogical act of that both Apple and Microsoft are getting aggressive about inducing people to update to later versions at a faster pace is an EPIC FAIL.

For professionals it causes so much headache and is unrealistic as for some it can make their gear/software unusable and thus just a paper weight

[Keybeeetsss]

Originally Posted by Shan

View > Clip > Transparency

No fruit snacks? Must be losin' your mojo.

Shane

Shan-O-PC!!!! Haha Hey man!!! That could be quite possible, as I only way Fruit Snacks on special occasions! Haha

But yeah, so ironically, with transparency OFF, it's better because at least I get the yellow outline, so I can see something. With it on, it's literally nothing until I release the clip...

[64GTOBOY]

Still using Win7 Ult unsupported, 18.7 two thumbs up so far for all the new search functions no issues in use yet(only two days)

[silverhammernz]

2018.7 crashes for me, random freezes mid project. Some other strange behaviours too. Sometimes Audiosuite plugin just won't work and have to reboot to clear. OS 10.13.3 MacBook Pro 2013 16G.

[PatriotsBiker]

Win-10 so far so good except for one minor thing. The usage mater displays the summary cup meter differently. Sort of jumps every half second or so from position to position instead of being slow. Anyone else have this? I'm not sure if it's a concern or not.

That aside, it's been smooth sailing so far. And that is how I jinx myself again. I will never learn.

[SigFriedChicken]

One improvement that I've noticed for 2018.7 is that when you have a MIDI window in a second display, it's not as laggy as it used to be.