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  • Does anyone here having a stable VI setup?

    Hello,

    I can't seem to keep the VSL VI from crashing constantly.

    My system is:

    WinXP SP2 3.ghz, 1.5gb ram, with of lots internal hard drives, Sonar 5 Producer, Onyx400F interface, Symphonic Cube.

    When I load the VI as stand-alone or as VST in Sonar at first its fine.
    But when I replace the loaded preset, patch, matrix with a different one
    the newly loaded preset, patch, matrix does not work correctly.

    The problems are numerous:

    - Notes are getting cut short and only lasting 1 second or less when they should be sustained

    - GUI has areas that disapper ie the Data Display and the Wheel.

    - I can't remove the current preset, patch, or matrix or add new ones.

    - The "please wait..." message when loading a file never goes away.

    - If I open something else like a folder on my Desktop it make elements of the gui disappear as well and they won't come back.

    - When I load a new or replace the current preset, patch, or matrix I have latency that was not there before. I have found that this is scalable. The low notes sound right away butas I climb up the chromatic scale there is more and more latency, thats a weird one.

    - I only hear the release samples of the newly loaded files but none of the attack or sustain portion.

    The list goes on. All that happens stand-alone or as VST.

    I cannot work like this.

    I'm trying really hard not be negative and angry as I have had nothing but problems since I got the Cube. I keep putting the blame on myself but I'm quickly realizing that I'm not the problem.

    I've reinstalled it a dozen times. I've cleaned out the registry for any lingering links as well. Same problems.

    I've emailed tech support and all I get is silence. They are probably up to thier necks in support issues.

    I thought GS was buggy. This VI has it beat by light years in the instability catagory. I was able to turn GS around and stablize it but I'm not sure its possible with this beast.

    Where do I look for potential issues? I have a M-audio Delta1010 laying and I'll see if that makes any difference at all.

    I'm willing to re-install windows if I have to but if that does not fix it I will go nuts for sure. I would have to reinstall and configure many time consuming things.

    I can't believe that $5000 software is this buggy.

    Please help.

  • I can't be much help, but I can say that the Vienna Instruments player works very well on the PC I run it on. It's a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM put together by VisionDAW (www.VisionDAW.com), but what they're using now is more advanced.

    It's on a WD Raptor drive, which is very fast, so that might have something to do with it. The soundcard is a Frontier Designs Wavecenter PCI - nothing fancy at all.

    It also does fine on my 2x2.5 G5, but it's more prone to clicking than the PC. On the other hand it accesses a lot of memory on the G5 so you can load a lot.

  • whoa - some list of worries you got there...
    Seems mostly to be graphical issues though.

    I also run Sonar 5 P.ed. on XP SP2 and have none of the problems you mentioned.

    Did you optimize windows for DAW?
    Do you run any weird screen resolution?
    Video card?
    Maybe check the properties for the VI in the Sonar plug-in manager

  • Aye that is some nasty problems you've got. I can only say that If I were having that level of trouble I would re-install the OS, and start again, on a new HD, keep the old one for comparison, and only install the music progs needed.