Hey all,

Anyone using reaper with the VS 700 Console?

My Sonar is having lots of problems with VST's - incessant crashing, and tech support is still reviewing my dump files. I need to record and mix tomorrow so I installed Reaper to try it out (it will also help isolate if the VST problems are Sonar induced or my system.. which i highly doubt)

I love the VS-700, amazing surface. I know it emulates Mackie Control , but Reaper is not meshing well with it. It works, but barely. Does anyone have a template or any suggestions?

Thanks.
PJ

Sorry i have no exp with reaper....

What version of Sonar are you running and what vst's are caseing problems?
What type of crashes ?

It would be good to know so the rest of us can watch out just incase we come across the same problems :)

Norrie

I'm also experiencing a lot of crashes with my system for over two years now, some months ago i took it to the Roland/Cakewalk HQ here in Belgium, let them update the system to windows 7 and X1 producers edition and they checked the whole system out, they told me it should work perfect after that, but sadly enough it didn't, at first withe the sonar8.5 it was +10 crashes a day, now i'm still experiencing +-5 crashes a day, it came to a point that i was considering buying a protools system back, but i am still hanging on and trying to live with the crashes, i am blaming windows  and hey... with the autosave on and the quick relaunch of a project it's just something that passes without a lot of words these days... 

Hi Clada,

What is your system ? Most of users often incriminates the hardware environement

Wow... my probs with X1 are limited (so far) to older projects and I'm certain it ties in with getting 32 bit plug ins to work. Solution here was to use 8.5.3 for the older stuff and so far, X1 is working fine on the new stuff... hope that continues too coz I'd hate to crash the sessions with the new band in the room!! [:0]

Poppa if you are getting issues like that, I'd suggest trying 8.5 if you have it... not sure a new s/w platform is going to be any easier than getting a work around like 8.5.3 which is quite stable. This of course is assuming that the issues are not something other than Sonar of course.

The problems should only start once the mixing begins which is when the VST pain starts but assuming your pc is well, this should give no drama to you. I'm doing that very thing here with no issues with the 700 R & C gear and X1 with latest patches.

Hope it works out ok for you.

@Peter 434:

The PC was build by Roland Belgium, 
it came as a complete package,  Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33 Ghz, 4 gb Ram running on 64 bit with windows 7 

@Peter 434:

The PC was build by Roland Belgium, 
it came as a complete package,  Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33 Ghz, 4 gb Ram running on 64 bit with windows 7 

The problems come and go at random, last few weeks no problem what so ever, but some days it crashes constantly, like it get out of bed with the wrong foot. The only thing that seems to help at that point is restart the pc at least 3 times before doing anything else.

Your pc may be the problem, actually it most likely is the problem.  Many issues could come up if your Ram is having issues, HD isn't reading fast enough, maybe even the CPU is having a difficult time.  Honestly, If you only have 4 Gig's of ram, you sould make sure you runs Sonar in 32-bit mode, in the Win 64 bit, but honestly you should have win 7 32 bit installed instead of 64 bit if you don't have more then 4 gig's of ram, simply because it can cause issues with instability with programs and the way the processor handles things.

since my previous post in here i've installed SSD's and all the crash problems are solved, it was the HD for sure !  Thx for the tips guys !

Great news Clada... very cool. Interesting the HDD wasn't able to be identified as the culprit earlier but great that is is now sorted out for you. Cheers.