laptop freeze + Crash when recording :(

[Jamieoldfield]

hey everyone
at the moment i record clean DI with ampsims etc
but when i use too many at one time e.g. 4
reaper starts to jump and freeze and i have to stop what im doing, and mute two tracks and turn off their fx for it to work
does anyone here have any ideas on how i could fix this problem?
Jamie

 

[mick thompson]

whats your interface/soundcard?

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

whats your interface/soundcard?

That, and give us your computer specs

 

[Jamieoldfield]

line6 toneport ux2
PROCESSOR: AMD TURION X2-DUAL CORE MOBILE RM-70 2.00GHz
RAM: 3.00GB
WINDOWS VISTA 32 BIT

 

[plague_rider]

Have you set your system to page memory???

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

If you're running 4 amp sims, plus 4 impulse loaders at a time, that's quite a load for that PC. Try "freezing" the tracks. Right clock the item (DI) and choose apply track FX to items as new take. This will render the effected signal - then, right click all of the amp sims / impulse loaders and offline the FX you don't need (the amp sim and the impulse loader) - this will free up considerable RAM and probably make your life a lot easier.

 

[Jamieoldfield]

ah, thanks man, i did it by rendering each guitar separately as a new wav and reimporting them
but i spose what you said is kind of the same thing
i think that should fix it
thanks man
jamie

 

[plague_rider]

Dude if you let your system page memory you can run more ampsims at the same time, i've had about 4 running with a bass one too and my system has like 2Gb on Pro-Tools

Its Paging somewhere around 12Gb

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

ah, thanks man, i did it by rendering each guitar separately as a new wav and reimporting them
but i spose what you said is kind of the same thing
i think that should fix it
thanks man
jamie

The end result is you have one item that is split into two seperate takes - the DI and the effected signal. If you need to tweal the effected signcl, select the DI and "Crop to active take" (Alt + Shift + T), then you will lose the effected take, and you can repeat the process.

And, all windows systems page memory, but why increase the page file size if you don't have to. Takes a second to render each to FX and offline the sims.

 

[Jamieoldfield]

also
another question
when you guys are doing live drums, do u render all the tracks of the drums into one wav, for recording guitars n shit?
or do you keep all the seperate tracks open in the same project?

 

[AudioPhile777]

also
another question
when you guys are doing live drums, do u render all the tracks of the drums into one wav, for recording guitars n shit?
or do you keep all the seperate tracks open in the same project?

I just rock the multi track right in the session... just make sure the latency is low when recording...