Baby Jesus just spoke his first word

[Cramulus]

SILLY I MADE A NEW AVATAR FOR YUO


EDIT: MYSELF

[LMNO]

Hey LMNO - what's the trouble you're having with ProTools? I might be able to help with troubleshooting.

"ProTools has unexpectedly quit."

[That One Guy]

Mac or PC version? Are you running a lot of plug-ins at once? Sometimes it just quits rather than gives the memory error if you're overloading the processor while not running out of RAM. Alternately, you might want to defragment the files since ProTools can get wonky if it has to skip around the disk a lot while reading the sound files. Worst case scenario is reinstalling ProTools. What version are you running?

[LMNO]

Mac, 6.4 LE, quits upon opening the program.

Bought the original protools for 9.0, upgraded to osx, can't unintsall/re-install because the mac doens't have "classic" on it to re-install & upgrade.


Basically, I need to get a digirack with ProTools for 10.4, but I'm strapped for cash.

[That One Guy]

Hmmmmm ... generally I've had version compatability issues pop up while it's doing the plug-in loading part. Is that where it's crashing (IE, before it finishes loading ProTools it crashes - no menus etc.)? Has it worked since you upgraded to OSX or has it been an issue ever since the upgrade?

I'm not as familiar with bridging the pre- and post-OSX Mac versions unfortunately.

[LMNO]

It's been working farily well for the past few years, and just recently would crash immediately upon opening the program.

[That One Guy]

Any other programs installed or plug-ins installed recently then? If so, try removing them and see if that helps. If that's not it, maybe back up all the sound files on CD/DVD or portable drive so ProTools isn't looking at anything that might have gotten corrupted. AFAIK ProTools loads the files of the last session you ran, and if any of those files got FUBARed that might be causing the issue.

[LMNO]

Good to know.  I was in the middle of slicing up samples, and the comp may have gotten confused.  I'll clear everything out & see what happens.

[That One Guy]

You might end up getting a whole bunch of "File X not found" errors - you should be able to just hit OK about a thousand times and get ProTools to load once it's done not finding what you put somewhere else. If you DO get that error a bunch, that's a good sign that that was the problem, rather than a plug-in or other program causing the crashing.

[LMNO]

Yeah, no new plug-ins for me.

I'll see how it works out.


I could still use a digirack, tho'.

[That One Guy]

Couldn't we all. I got super spoiled in college using 888 racks and a pair of OS2 digital consoles. Scaling back to the 002 (or even the M1 2-channel in/out "portable" unit) was so painful. When I graduated I had a brand new G3 (when THAT was brand new) and a 4-channel in/out card that could only handle 8 tracks of playback at a time. A few years back a friend of mine got a new G5 with the 002 rack and we did a dozen songs for the band we were all in at the time.

Still workable, but ... 

If only I had a spare $20k lying around.

[LMNO]

Y'know what spoiled me?

That fucking Lexi-whatever-it-was reverb/echo machine that needed an entire separate room for itself and you could dial in with that playskool-looking remote.


Goddam, that had some of the tastiest reverbs imaginable.

[That One Guy]

Oooooh ... Lexicon reverbs. The best there are. There are Lexi reverb plug-ins now that do an absolutely AMAZING job. Pricey, but if you can get your hands on them (not that I'm advocating stealing the plug-ins or anything like that ... not at all ... not me ... no way) they are WELL worth it.

[Mangrove]

Silly,

Baby Jesus probably should have a Scottish accent.



Mang'

[hunter s.durden]

Silly,

Baby Jesus probably should have a Scottish accent.



Mang'

Blasphemy.
In fact, I think Silly should learn Aramaic.