Monday, 20 February 2012
Studio rig gone ape!
Not the best of days :-) Was making great progress on my next track and the studio PC began to give issues in the form of intermittent reboots.
This rig was built from the ground up (by me) so I know that the problem lay with 64-bit XP drivers (Sound card). So why not just re-install them?
I did - and that's where the horror story comes into play. Sound is completely different to what it used to by - almost tiny. I've re-checked all studio wiring, and even tried 3 historical drivers.
Truly at a loss for words. Almost as if I've lost the LFE portion of a setup running in 5.1 (I'm obviously powered two studio monitor speakers in stereo).
After battling for hours - still no joy. Even the VST's I've used for years sound different - like their rendering to a different clock speed.
Strange stuff. Anyone else ever had an experience like this?
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Will be rebuilding my studio rig later tonight if there is time. Looking to strip down the OS using a custom x64 nLite build I prepped last night - need all the memory I can use at this point.
ReplyDeleteIf the XFi card doesn't play ball - it's in the bin. Will look at a Saffire 6 or similar priced A-D converter.
Done! Turns out XP 64-bit had big troubles separating IRQ for Audio and Graphics. I had to take out some ram and downgrade to XP 32-bit for a little while (until I have time to build the new studio PC).
DeleteSo all is well again except running with 3GB ram instead. It's okay though - the main thing is I can continue to make music without system crashes.