Mixer Rebuild woes and dropouts/stalls
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 16:45
It is taking me upwards of 45 seconds to rebuild my mixer and I get stutters and dropouts every time I move the mouse over a menu or touch a fader, making it near impossible to mix. Here are the details on the session:
32 tracks at 48/24 in PMF
using multiple iterations of Flux plugs and Altiverb on (2) aux strips
no automation yet
minimal edits and punches
I am admittedly using a very old USB Edirol interface on this system until my newer RME gear arrives, but it is an IBM Intellistation M Pro with a 3.6GHz P4 with 4GB of RAM and an ATI FireGL V3100 graphics card. The session is being run from a Glyph GT050Q via FireWire 400. The buffer on the Edirol is set as high as it will allow me to and I increased the playback buffer in Pyramix substantially as well, with no improvements.
Pyramix shows my CPU usage to be around 31%, so CPU power should not be the issue. There does not appear to be anything running in the background and other applications on the machine are very snappy and do not exhibit these types of slow-downs. I have occasionally even lost mouse control during a mixer rebuild. I have double checked and I am running the latest version of the Flux plugins which supposedly have updated support for Pyramix 6.1 (is this update imminent?) Any help is much appreciated! This project has a quick turnaround and I do not want to wast time getting it into another DAW (and Pyramix sounds better anyway).
32 tracks at 48/24 in PMF
using multiple iterations of Flux plugs and Altiverb on (2) aux strips
no automation yet
minimal edits and punches
I am admittedly using a very old USB Edirol interface on this system until my newer RME gear arrives, but it is an IBM Intellistation M Pro with a 3.6GHz P4 with 4GB of RAM and an ATI FireGL V3100 graphics card. The session is being run from a Glyph GT050Q via FireWire 400. The buffer on the Edirol is set as high as it will allow me to and I increased the playback buffer in Pyramix substantially as well, with no improvements.
Pyramix shows my CPU usage to be around 31%, so CPU power should not be the issue. There does not appear to be anything running in the background and other applications on the machine are very snappy and do not exhibit these types of slow-downs. I have occasionally even lost mouse control during a mixer rebuild. I have double checked and I am running the latest version of the Flux plugins which supposedly have updated support for Pyramix 6.1 (is this update imminent?) Any help is much appreciated! This project has a quick turnaround and I do not want to wast time getting it into another DAW (and Pyramix sounds better anyway).