Cubase LE mixdown problem
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:09 am
Maybe someone out there can give me some ideas here.I run Cubase LE with a Tascam 144 USB Interface-- the version of Cubase LE is the lightest one- the one they give away with the Tascam.Lately, when I do an audio mixdown to .wav, I get problems whereby I get bad output files (no sound after a point in the file) or ones with major cracks and pops. I know when the problem is likely to happen- the progress bar during export slows down dramatically and I hear a lot of hard disk activity. When things are good, the progress bar moves smoothly and the export does not take a very long time. When bad, you see the time remaining stop decreasing or even increase quite a bit.I did not have this problem early on. I made two changes to my system in recent months. One is I installed a new sound card. It should have been an upgrade, it is a later model of the Creative card I had before. The other is I installed Antares Autotune 5.0 and the associated USB iLok.At first I thought the problem only occurred when I inserted Autotune on a track. I thought maybe it was more processing than could be handled. However, I see the same problem now even when Autotune has not been inserted on any tracks.My PC has a fairly modern & fast Pentium processor and 2 GB RAM. (I forgot the clock speed- I'll check but it's not a slowpoke at all)I'm thinking of trying one or more of the following:* Uninstall and reinstall Cubase.* Uninstall Autotune and run that way for a while and see. * Go back to the old soundcard which still works fine.Any ideas? Settings? Adjustments? Voodoo?Thanks,Casey