Hi, So I tried everything out today, just a quick project nothing complex, when bouncing a midi track routed to a Kontakt library to a new audio track I am getting a fairly hideous crash. X2 is closing and the process cannot be killed from Task Manager, hence X2 cannot be reopened, requiring a reboot. Gave up at 8 tracks lol. Anyone else seeing this behaviour? Other than that everything worked perfectly, but was forced to give up. Thanks in advance.

you asked on the NI forum also?

It's not just Kontakt. Selecting 8 audio tracks and exporting them as a wav also does the same.

k5 spec still says win7

Just to re-itterate, it's not just Kontakt. Selecting 8 audio tracks and exporting them as a wav also does the same.

sorry, crossposted... if it's as simple as exporting an audio-only mixdown you should contact cakewalk, they're working on their win8 compatibility patch at the mo, so your experience should be useful to them :)

UKJediKnight


Just to re-itterate, it's not just Kontakt. Selecting 8 audio tracks and exporting them as a wav also does the same.

Not seeing that here.  I don't have Kontakt so I can't check that but 8 or more audio tracks doesn't crash.
 
Dan

Thanks for all the replies everyone! It's doing my head in. The machine is rock-stable, I had no issues recording Audio or Midi, just at mixdown and export. No special plugs in at that point. Confounding! Thanks again all!

Do you use a Firewire Audio card?

It seem that the old problem with FW drivers from Windows 7 are still around. The result are cracks and lots of issues with latency etc. In Windows 7 we were recommended to switch to the 1394 OHCI (Legacy) drivers. However the Legacy drivers are not around in Windows 8. However, help can be found here

http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=15505

If you use a FW audio interface, try this.

No, I don't use FW just my trusty old Audiophile 24/96. Everything else is working perfectly. Perhaps I need to get in touch with the devs. It's very odd. Other than this 1 issue I have no issues with Win 8 at all. Boooooo! ;0)