Well…
I had a number of concerted attempts to work on some T3E material over the weekend. There are two great ideas of Curtis’s that I wanted to add some string parts to, and play with some melodic/lyrical ideas I’ve had swimming around my head.
A while back, I noticed an occasional weird freezing thing that my PC was doing in REAPER.
Well it’s doing that again. ALOT.
It seems to be some VSTis that trigger it more than others (SFZ was particularly problematic) but it’s still doing it occasionally regardless. If I switch over from the EMU to the Nvidia audio drivers on the motherboard it works again for a while, then freezes again.
It’s very weird… I press play (or record, or whatever) and the buttons on the transport “depress”, but nothing moves, plus it’s unresponsive to MIDI/audio input. The program itself hasn’tf rozen, I can still move around the interface, load, save, change prefs etc. But nothing other than a re-boot of the whole PC will get sound happening again, or the transport moving. Then after about 5 minutes of work, it happens all over.
It’s doing it with the Mbox too, so at least the EMU is ok… hrmm…
I tried rolling back to version 1.888 of REAPER (in case it was a funky Beta issue) and it still happens. I’m going to try a fresh install of the whole PC this week, and then if that runs, I’ll add VSTs one at a time and see if I can figure out what makes it fail.
I am THIS close to picking up a Macbook and a copy of Logic Studio on finance or Rental. I can’t really afford it, but it’s fully tax deductible, and at least I’ll be able to get some bloody work done.
Sigh…
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