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I've been doing more and more recoridng for different people locally to earn my business some cash - it's not great pay compared to the corporate jobs I do, but I like doing it and it gets me out of the house. Workjing at home, alone, can get lonely...
I took a job recoridng a singer songwriter guy a few weeks ago, and he asked me to sequence some drums for one of his songs to flesh it out and we'd been thrashing it out back and forth for a few weeks to get a mix he liked.
He liked my last mix but wanted a little more drums in the mix. Now, this meant the whole mix needed changing, based as it was on a delicate balance of echo'd acoutsic guitar, echo'd vocal and various effects and thing to get the spacey kinda sound he wanted. Did that, no problem. Sounded good!
The he asked for a little more wet mix on this echod guitar part to fatten it up, and I agreed that the sound could use a little more body. I tried a plug on the guitar track called DMO something-or-other and Cubase crashed. Reloaded it, and it crashed again. Reloaded it again, it crashed again. Restarted my machine, it crashed again. Went in my VST folder and deleted the plug in case that was causing it, tried again, and yet another crash.
ARRRGGGGHHHHH!
Cubase you ruined my life (day)!
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01/24/08
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Fredo
ugh. I don't envy you. Software crashing is one of the most frustrating things ever. 
01/24/08
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ricemutt
logic did this to me yesterday, TWICE... but I think it was one of the plugins I was using.
Actually though, I think it was telling me that the track I was working on was crap, and it was time to give up--and I think it was right.
01/24/08
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utofbu
this is why I love ableton.
01/24/08
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jdg
plugins are the worse thing u can do for stability.
01/24/08
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sAMsKi
sometimes I think computers are the diametrically opposed to creativity. other times I think the opposite.
01/24/08
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madeofoak
i just think my computer usually has different plans than me.
01/24/08
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soft
every time i save a tune im working on i add a letter or number to the end of the file name.
for each tune, i create a separate folder to keep things a little more organised .... inside that folder there will end up being like 20 files in a list something like this....
smoze
smoze 2
smoze 2 B
smoze 2 B 2
smoze 2 B 2 X (altered mix)
smoze 2 B 2 X (altered mix) B
smoze 2 B 2 X (altered mix) B C
etc
etc
etc
this also helps when you delete a track/part by accident and don't realise until the next time you listen to the tune. you can just go back to an earlier version and copy/paste the track into the most recent version.
01/24/08
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theflame
Yeah, I SERIOUSLY gotta start doing that. Fuck.
Does Cubase make a log of what's making it crash or anything? I'd love to fix it if I can, but I understand that Cubase isn't exactly as easy to fix as an old Chevy or something...
01/24/08
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thehydrax
I once lost a big project i was putting together in cubase, all because of a vst. never could open it again, had to start over. I only ever use Ableton now
01/24/08
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mixedtape
ricemutt said: "logic did this to me yesterday, TWICE... but I think it was one of the plugins I was using.
Actually though, I think it was telling me that the track I was working on was crap, and it was time to give up--and I think it was right."
LOL! is that why you were asking me about logic? ouch, that sucks.
01/24/08
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jdg
yes, Cubase.log file in the c:/program files.. Cubase folder.
somethine like that
01/24/08
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ignatius
soft- good thing to do.
i save versions when i make changes/edits that are significant. i try to make little notations about changes in mixes like "kikup" or "sqshdversion" etc. but sometimes i just add a number then keep going so by the end i have a map of progress of the song then near the end i maybe save a couple times with a "4.xxx" type thing so once i have the mix close i don't have to go way back in teh tracks history and build the whole mix again.
flame- sorry for your bummer. it's always more stressful when it's someone else's tracks.
01/24/08
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ricemutt
lesson learned:
don't turn the ray count to max in rayspace
01/24/08
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ricemutt
and I guess I wans't that clear... my project files didn't get corrupted, I just lost about an hour's wortyh of work each time
01/25/08
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theflame
I redid the lost work today and it was somehow about 1000 times better than the original that I lost anyway. Maybe someone was trying to tell me that my mix sucked?
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