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Mixcraft 6 Crashing and Very Unstable

elwoodblues1969	Post subject: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:57 pm
Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:56 pm Posts: 40	As much as I love working in Mixcraft 6...sometimes it really gets on my nerves,as I've had numerous instances of crashes(one of the big causes),is the Pultronic Tube EQ,so I can't use that effect anymore. Also...I just recently installed Kontakt Player 4...along with Vir2 BASiS and yes,it is a huge program with built in effects,but it still does not entirely explain the current issue I'm having.My new VST as several bass instrument types,so along with one of the e.bass tracks I already implemented,I also wanted to add a synth bass track,but when I tried to load another Kontakt track,everything froze up and I had no other alternative,but to log off of my computer. I have a very capable computer,that has a 2.80Ghz 6 core processor,8GB of RAM with a 1TB HD and in my current project,I have only 5 tracks in it,thus far(one of them being a video track). I should also mention that I have another PC with roughly half the power of this PC and I can easily run 3 to 4 Kontakt tracks(as well as some other VST's and I can furnish a 8 track song,without any hiccups or glitches of any kind. But on this PC,there's no way I can run that much in Mixcraft 6.I don't experience any pops or crackles in Mixcraft...so what the hell is going on?Perhaps it's merely the limitations of a $75 DAW? If that's the case,I would gladly purchase an upgraded version of Mixcraft 6,just to get this sh*t to stop....please...any input on this matter would be appreciated! Thanks, -Thom
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Acoustica Greg	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:04 pm
Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:30 pm Posts: 9852 Location: California	Hi, Duplicate the problem, then quit Mixcraft and send us your mixcraft-log.txt file, which is located in this folder: %appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft Another way to find it is to click on the Windows Start Menu, select All Programs, then Acoustica Mixcraft 6 (or 5) and finally Logs. Submit an Acoustica Support Request and attach the log file along with a brief description of the problem. Here's a short video: Mixcraft Mini-Tip: How To Find Your Mixcraft Log File Greg

JonInc Shill Asshole	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:27 pm
Joined: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:30 pm Posts: 82	I suspect this is a system configuration issue. You only mention about half of your system specs.... What OS? Is it 32 or 64 bit? A 1 TB HD... Are you saying you have only one hard drive, and everything is on it? (FYI -- A DAW - especially one running resource-intensive VSTs - should have at least two separate drives: one for OS and programs, the other for audio and samples). Vir2 instruments (BaSis and Mojo) are known for being quality instruments - at the cost of also being cpu-intensive. If your system isn't set up properly - choice of components or correct optimization settings - you will have problems. How about we make sure your basic setup is "DAW-ready", and the settings are correct, before blaming the $75 Mixcraft? Notice that this weasel blames the computer. WHAT A BITCH!
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elwoodblues1969	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:00 pm
Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:56 pm Posts: 40	JonInc wrote: I suspect this is a system configuration issue. You only mention about half of your system specs.... What OS? Is it 32 or 64 bit? A 1 TB HD... Are you saying you have only one hard drive, and everything is on it? (FYI -- A DAW - especially one running resource-intensive VSTs - should have at least two separate drives: one for OS and programs, the other for audio and samples). Vir2 instruments (BaSis and Mojo) are known for being quality instruments - at the cost of also being cpu-intensive. If your system isn't set up properly - choice of components or correct optimization settings - you will have problems. How about we make sure your basic setup is "DAW-ready", and the settings are correct, before blaming the $75 Mixcraft? Windows 7,64bit.The hard drive size is not the problem,because I only have 179GB worth of content on it(my other PC is only a 500GB HD & only a dual core processor with 4GB of RAM and I have at least the same amount of HD space used up on that one) and it runs much better. Aside from configuring audio interface settings,I've never had to "optimize" my PC with any other DAW I have,but I look into the tutorial videos & try to gain some insight into the problem. Thanks for your input.
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JonInc	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:49 pm
Joined: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:30 pm Posts: 82	elwoodblues1969 wrote: ...The hard drive size is not the problem,because I only have 179GB worth of content on it(my other PC is only a 500GB HD & only a dual core processor with 4GB of RAM and I have at least the same amount of HD space used up on that one) and it runs much better. .... It's not the hard drive data size that's the issue. Basically, you want more than one drive, so that they can efficiently divide up the various read/write/streaming tasks. It's all explained here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/articles/pcmusician.htm Also, is this a desktop or laptop? What about the "other" PC you are referring to? What is your audio interface/sound card?   Both of this guy's machines are running more sophisticated software. Both are laptops and the guy is a gamer so he is running good sound cards. One of his desktops is $2500.  He is also running a Presonus interface which are an industry standard interfaces.
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elwoodblues1969	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:04 am
Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:56 pm Posts: 40	Acoustica Greg wrote: Hi, Duplicate the problem, then quit Mixcraft and send us your mixcraft-log.txt file, which is located in this folder: %appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft Another way to find it is to click on the Windows Start Menu, select All Programs, then Acoustica Mixcraft 6 (or 5) and finally Logs. Submit an Acoustica Support Request and attach the log file along with a brief description of the problem. Here's a short video: Mixcraft Mini-Tip: How To Find Your Mixcraft Log File Greg Greg, The first time my Mixcraft 6 crashed,was due to the Pultronic Tube EQ and this was before I had Kontakt 4 & the subsequent VST installed. This was about a week ago & I never received a reply on this report. The Pultronic VST issue is not nearly as important to me as the Kontakt VST issue and unfortunately,there's no crash log I can send. Reason being,is that when I tried to insert a 2nd Kontakt track,everything freezes up and I can do nothing but log off Windows & when I do this,Mixcraft 6 justs disappears without a crash window. I'll look into the video tutorials...thanks for your assistance, -Thom
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elwoodblues1969	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:28 am
Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:56 pm Posts: 40	JonInc wrote: elwoodblues1969 wrote: .... It's not the hard drive data size that's the issue. Basically, you want more than one drive, so that they can efficiently divide up the various read/write/streaming tasks. It's all explained here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/articles/pcmusician.htm Also, is this a desktop or laptop? What about the "other" PC you are referring to? What is your audio interface/sound card? Both PC's are desktops.The larger & more powerful of the two,is a Cyberpower Apevia(Gamer Dragon) computer,that is specifically designed for gaming and/or video production. This PC has a Presonus AudioBox 44VSL interface. My other PC the smaller one,is a Compaq Presario; AMD 2.80Ghz dual core,3GB of RAM,500GB HD,64 bit with Windows 7. I have exactly 200GB of used space on it currently and my Presonus S1 DAW with NI Komplete 6 and I also have a Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum program on it,& it all runs fine(I have a NI Audio Kontrol 1 audio interface installed). I don't have Mixcraft 6 installed on the Compaq...but I strongly suspect I would have even a larger problem running Mixcraft on the Compaq. The more I think about it,I suspect that a program like Mixcraft running video & multitrack audio/midi all at the same time,is the real problem(I sincerely hope I am dead wrong on this assumption),because I just don't have the $2500 to spend on this monster; http://www.musiccomputing.com/coremc I trust SoundOnSound's reviews implicitly and it's an interesting article,but I don't have the coin to spend on an external HD as I am completely tapped out & will be for a few months. Last edited by elwoodblues1969 on Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Acoustica Greg	Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:26 pm
Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:30 pm Posts: 9852 Location: California	Hi, I might be able to make some more specific suggestions after taking a look at your log file. The next time Mixcraft does something "unstable," quit Mixcraft and send us your mixcraft-log.txt file, which is located in this folder: %appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft Another way to find it is to click on the Windows Start Menu, select All Programs, then Acoustica Mixcraft 6 (or 5) and finally Logs. Submit an Acoustica Support Request and attach the log file along with a brief description of the problem. Here's a short video: Mixcraft Mini-Tip: How To Find Your Mixcraft Log File Greg
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MissMinx

Post subject: Re: Mixcraft 6: Very Unstable At Times... Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:16 am

Joined: Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:35 am Posts: 15

Hi, crashing with the tube FX i used to have regularly, I found that the crashes where being caused by an overload (Red lining), if you have the patience, play back your track until it crashes, then set a loop around that area, go to your mixer and look out for any tracks red lining. Sometimes this can be caused, weirdly enough, by having a low pass cutoff jump from any value to 0 from two separate block of notes, but anyhow, hope that fixes it.

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Why is it that every DAW I try seems to have MAJOR drawbacks and functionality issues:

Pro Tools LE:

• Obvious limitations on track counts, busses, I/O, ADC, etc.

Pro Tools HD:

• Even with PT8, the MIDI is still pretty sub par.... and considering that most modern composers are using MIDI... well.... this pretty much takes both HD and LE off the usable list
• The ADC seems to be the worst out of any app that has it
• Even HD has the ******** I/O limitations on which hardware you can use.

Logic:

• The worst audio editing out there bar none. I.E., no dedicated trim tool... so.. no way to trim a region unless you scroll all the way to the edge, no way to make slip edits, no dedicated fade tool, you're simply STUCK with the "dumb" tool, etc.
• No way to use the fade tool on multiple tracks ?! Amazing!!
• No track based takes (I.E., playlists, layers, etc.)
• No simple MIDI merge command for recording (merge with selected layers doesn't count at all)
• No way to view both the Left and Right sides of a stereo waveform.. what am I even seeing here.. is this a mono summed version??
• Regardless of having "no overlap" selected.. you still get overlapping regions when recording/punching in.. and well... what you see isn't always what you get... MIND ****!
• No way to independently pan an aux send... what the...... is this 1972??

Digital Performer:

• No absolute grid.. makes editing MIDI quite the hassle....
• A "split notes" feature that only works when all the notes of all the chords have quantized attacks
• A different tool for EVERY edit function for MIDI... separate tool for drawing notes.. separate tool for extending lengths.. separate tool for velocity, etc. You can REALLY tell that the bulk of the MIDI features in DP are quite OLD.
• No way to select tracks... or even see which tracks are selected in the mixer
• No MIDI learn function for plugins.. unless the plugin comes with MIDI learn already built in.
• No way to assign the same plugin across multiple tracks simultaneously .. or assign the same send to multiple tracks simultaneously
• All that said.. this is by far the best app for me at the moment..... still frustrating though....

Ableton Live

• No way to create smooth, gradual tempo changes
• No real way to create takes, comp takes, etc. without major workarounds
• No real way to work in a linear fashion unless you're OK only the most basic of commands
• Only the most simple of MIDI commands and edit possibilities
• Built for DJ's and Loop-Junkies.... and I should just accept it......

Studio One

• Again.. no way to create smooth, gradual tempo changes
• A fairly odd way of dealing with automation for busses (who doesn't use busses!)
• Again... only the most simple of MIDI edit commands
• OK... it's a new DAW... so I'll be easy

Reaper

• The worst implementation of rewire,... even though I have to hand it to them for allowing Reaper to work as a Rewire Slave
• Again... only the simple MIDI editing commands as found in Studio One, Live, etc.
• No track based takes

Maybe I should try Cubase???? Ed.... No you shouldn't!!!!

Can someone build a proper DAW... it's 2013...

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How is it that every DAW out there has major flaws and issues.

Pro tools - cpu hog, VSt's don't work, RTAS instruments barely work, no drum pad sampler, not good for produciton, only mixing.

Logic - (haven't used it much) a pain to look at, everything is so small and cluttered

Ableton - horrendous use of CPU, one core per track, track view is laughable, mix view is laughable. Crashes constantly.

FL Studio - again, horrible GUI. Way too small. Way too cluttered. Just sucks.


These are the only ones I've used. But seriously are these manufacturers that hard of hearing? I mean, people complain about their software non-stop and all they do is make stupid updates about things that didn't even bother us in the first place. I'm hearing now that Ableton is coming out with version 9 and they changed the browser (wtf?) and it is even more of a CPU hog and it probably will still wrongly display the CPU % as before, only worse.

Come on developers, get your sh*t together and stop making garbage.


 

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‎01-06-2008 02:09 PM

I'm trying to program death metal drums into beatcraft. It sucks!!! I can't find a way to change tempo within the pattern so I'm trying to change time sigs etc...it just sucks. Anyone have any clue on what to do?

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‎01-06-2008 02:56 PM

Yeah Beatcraft blows... you have to do each part with seperate tempos in different pieces, so export a wave for each part with a different tempo.

I'd recommend EZdrummer for anything that needs metal drumming.

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‎01-06-2008 06:57 PM

+1 on EZ Drummer. Can't beat it for death metal. especially with that double tempo button... Mmmmm Mmmmm. Like having Gene Hoglan right there with you.

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‎01-07-2008 06:28 AM

Another +1 to EZdrummer.. I used to program everything in Beatcraft, and DAMN, EZdrummer completely wins in sound and ease of use.

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