Just cancelled my Pro Tools 9 order.

thats a bummer :(

I've been there, too. My first Pro Tools system on PC ended up with me having to build a second computer since the chip set in the Compaq I had at the time was not compatible but I didn't find that out until I had bought and tried installing the software and audio card (Audio Media III card back then). :mad:
 
The software seems to run fine on my computer, but I can't do much with it without having a working interface...and only having two inputs isn't what I consider a working interface.

Of course, even installing the software was a headache because it wanted to install all the Avid hardware drivers. Did that, and when I restarted I got the blue screen of death. Did a system restore and tried again. Another blue screen of death. Then I did another restore and skipped installing the Avid hardware drivers and the computer started up and Pro Tools launched only to tell me that my interface buffer settings need to be changed to match the accepted buffer settings for Pro Tools. Of course, the control panel for the Firepod has sample rate and latency settings, but the latency settings are in ms, not in buffer size, and apparently none of those settings actually match up to what Pro Tools wants. I found a ton of people online with the same issues. Some said that ASIO4ALL fixed it, which it kind of does in that I can now get into Pro Tools and start a session, but it only sees two inputs. Somebody online said they were able to get it to recognize all 8 inputs, but when I tried what he said to do, I still only got 2 inputs.

I shouldn't have to use some generic 3rd party driver anyway. :mad:
 
Last edited:
ASIO4ALL works great with Reaper...Pro Tools mojo, this sounds like the kind of thing that would make me go back to my Tascam 4 track tape recorder...

Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
 
You still have your Lexicon, right? Use it via usb and the firepod via the firewire maybe. Should give you enough inputs to play around with for a while.
 
Ha. I just got all 8 inputs on the Firepod working. Still haven't got all the little bugs worked out, and there's going to be a bit of a learning curve, but it looks like I can probably use my Firepods after all. :cool:
 
Don't clap yet. It's still buggy as shit. I think it's my firewire card that's not playing nice with Windows 7. I've read a bunch of stuff about setting the driver back to the old legacy driver, but when I do that it sounds like I'm recording in 8 bit. :embarrassed:

As it is now, it'll be fine for a minute, then it'll start popping and cracking. It does that whether I'm in pro tools or not though. Like, right now I'm listening to an mp3 in real player and it's doing it. :mad:
 
Prages said:
Don't clap yet. It's still buggy as shit. I think it's my firewire card that's not playing nice with Windows 7. I've read a bunch of stuff about setting the driver back to the old legacy driver, but when I do that it sounds like I'm recording in 8 bit. :embarrassed:

As it is now, it'll be fine for a minute, then it'll start popping and cracking. It does that whether I'm in pro tools or not though. Like, right now I'm listening to an mp3 in real player and it's doing it. :mad:
Click to expand...

I had that happen Sat. night. It turned out I drank so much that my brain cells were going Rice Krispies on me. :embarrassed:
 
We're getting there! Don't know how it'll do with a bunch of tracks being recorded simultaneously, but I've got basic stuff working now.

Turns out I just needed to disable my Wi-Fi card while recording. :facepalm: Did that this morning and was able to get two tracks recorded simultaneously with a click, then added some compression, EQ, and an Auxillary reverb track, then overdubbed a vocal track. No glitches, and for a very quick and dirty recording and mix at 6:30 this morning, it sounds pretty good.

Sleep
 
Prages said:
We're getting there! Don't know how it'll do with a bunch of tracks being recorded simultaneously, but I've got basic stuff working now.

Turns out I just needed to disable my Wi-Fi card while recording. :facepalm: Did that this morning and was able to get two tracks recorded simultaneously with a click, then added some compression, EQ, and an Auxillary reverb track, then overdubbed a vocal track. No glitches, and for a very quick and dirty recording and mix at 6:30 this morning, it sounds pretty good.

Sleep
Click to expand...

I'm glad it's working out. As one of the very few ProTools advocates on this forum I was starting to get embarrassed :embarrassed:
 
Mark Wein said:
I'm glad it's working out. As one of the very few ProTools advocates on this forum I was starting to get embarrassed :embarrassed:
Click to expand...

I think once I get the initial setup issues figured out, it'll be a pretty slick program.

I mean, it's different enough from Cubase SX that it's gonna take me a while to get comfortable with it, and there are already some things that I prefer in Cubase. For instance, Auxillary Sends.

In Cubase, I'd record a track, then click on the "FX" button of the track. From there, I could put inserts on the individual track, or I could add auxillary plugins that were shared with whatever tracks you enable them on. On that same screen, you'd adjust the parameters of the effect and the output level. So your auxes were sent and received right there on the same track. With PT, it looks like you have to send the aux from the source track and return it onto a completely seperate track. That's kind of nice in that you can route things however you want (like maybe through outboard gear, which I don't use), but I imagine it could make the mix screen a little more cluttered than I'm used to, since you'd have to have a track on the mix screen for each Aux return.
 
Prages said:
I think once I get the initial setup issues figured out, it'll be a pretty slick program.

I mean, it's different enough from Cubase SX that it's gonna take me a while to get comfortable with it, and there are already some things that I prefer in Cubase. For instance, Auxillary Sends.

In Cubase, I'd record a track, then click on the "FX" button of the track. From there, I could put inserts on the individual track, or I could add auxillary plugins that were shared with whatever tracks you enable them on. On that same screen, you'd adjust the parameters of the effect and the output level. So your auxes were sent and received right there on the same track. With PT, it looks like you have to send the aux from the source track and return it onto a completely seperate track. That's kind of nice in that you can route things however you want (like maybe through outboard gear, which I don't use), but I imagine it could make the mix screen a little more cluttered than I'm used to, since you'd have to have a track on the mix screen for each Aux return.
Click to expand...

do you mean like using a regular plugin like compression or reverb that is specific to one track? You should be able to do it in the same track.
 
Mark Wein said:
do you mean like using a regular plugin like compression or reverb that is specific to one track? You should be able to do it in the same track.
Click to expand...

Now that I'm thinking about it, if I sent the auxillary return to the master bus, it'd probably work just like it did in Cubase instead of having a seperate track for the aux return. I'll have to try that when I get home.

Of course, having a fader on the main mixer for fx levels will probably grow on me. I've been on my old system for so long that everything is going to take a little bit of time for me to get used to.

Learning curve. I haz one.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top