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The D · Posted - Thu Mar 22, 2001 9:48 pm

Hi guys I need your help!

I've got a multitrack seesion in CEP with a lot of samples!! (I didn't mix down any of the drum loops to form 16/32 bar loops, so there's heaps of little drum loops samples everywhere!! Oh, well....I'm an idiot!) Anyway, when I load the session it takes ages and then I've got about 30 seconds before it crashes....It seems to load alright, and play but when I try to edit I get an error (page fault??? whats that mean??)

Is this an error with CEP that will require re-installation? Or is because I've got too many samples....not enough memory (64MB should be enough!) Or could it be a problem with an individual sample?

Can someone help me save this session so I don't have to re-do it from a saved back-up.

Thanks,

D

jonrose · Location: USA

Hey there, D.
This is not a function I make much use of, but I will make an attempt here...
It sounds to me like a resource deficiency, and I'll describe a situation I had where I was pushing the envelope pretty hard (in fact, crashed the system doing it):
I had an instance where I had to straighten out a kick drum and snare on a particularly long piece where the drummer was consistently off - this ended up being a "splice and move, splice and move...etc" kind of job. In the end, there were more than a hundred of these splices, and the disk mix time was atrocious. There were also many volume envelope moves on various tracks, and all of this added up to an incredible load on the system, even at 256MB of ram and with 2 SCSI hard disks dedicated to the temporary directories for CEP.
I could do no further work without mixing down the splices to a new track and removing the spliced-up track from the multi-track window completely.
It sounds to me as if you are pushing your resources pretty hard, but I've been wrong before and am happy to take my noodle-thrashing if that's the case... ;-D

All the best... -J