Once upon a time, it was all running so smoothly...

I'm reinstaling EVERYTHING and now my computer is acting up. I'm running cubase5.1r1 on my G4 with 350MHz and 896 mega bytes built-in. I'm new to having two hard drives, cubase is in the larger one, not the main one, as I intend to save all my music in there also. I instaled the delta 66 beta drivers and it seems to me this may be an extentions problem. Although I've tried eliminating different combinations and can find no cause.
When I open Cubase, and the VST performance window, it is constantly blinking red, and only plays and records, on-off-on-off, and so on.

I custom set my disk cache to 30016K and assigned more memory to Cubase in the finder. Still the same problem. Even swiching to the Apple sound manager and not the Delta ASIO, still, on-off-on-off-on-off. Awful.

So what can I do? Has anyone had something similar? Is there a particular way to configure the extentions, or settings to fix this?

That's it, thank-you to anyone who helps!
- Zeb

What OS are you running?

hahaworld

OS 9.2

James......I don't use cubase. But it definitely sounds to me that there is an extensions conflict with the beta. It shouldn't matter whether or not your music hard drive is your main one. I think it may be necessary to to perform another clean install perhaps only for your music hard drive....try it without the beta...printers and no internet softwares shouldn't be on this hard drive....That's what I was told. I have power mac G4....But I use Digital Peformer2.7 with os9.2 I have a very similar set up....2 hard drives as well. I have heard of others having problems with the beta on macs! Good luck!
You'll get there!

Also: for me I have to be careful not to allocate too much memory to my audio system. This will cause freezing.

Hi Zebulun!

ApolloSource is right on. If all else fails, you could consider going up to OSX. I haven't had a crash since I went completely OSX on my audio software (that was in November, 2003). I hope your problems get solved!

hahaworld

i had a problem like that with Cubase 5... and no other app/sequencer gave me so much trouble with maxxing out.

I'll bet almost anything that it's Cubase, not the Delta 66 or anything to do with your Mac.

one thing you can try is to go to M-audio's website and look for another set of drivers; sometimes the older ones work better, believe it or not.

You should have the cubase app on your main drive and save the actual files to your 2nd drive.

There is a PDF somewhere that tells you all the steps to go through to optimize your Mac for running cubase 5 on it.See if you can find it with google.

I'm sure that after you read it, you'll get rid of cubase and try a better Mac music app.

I did. No problems even close running Digital Performer and Logic. You'll be amazed at the difference.

And, it's not OS9's fault,either.

Thanks all yall who opted yer voice.

I'm back, baby! I did need to get older drivers for my audio card, (OS 8, ones) although I must say that the teck support from M-Audio was no help. They told me my system wasn't good enough for there product! Even after I'd said I've had it working fine before. Next I followed the steps on a PDF about optimizing cubase, and found one important detail that was making my VST performance meter blink blink blink... it was my being set to look for the Ethernet connection! I'm always switching this connection between our PC and my Mac, and when I'm off line, the computer is always, looking looking looking!!! Go figure!

I must say that Cubase does tax the CPU more than most app and is only pretty good for doing the little extras. I do perfer DP. I've also worked on DP's latest release, and found it VERY USER FRIENDLY. doing the audio editing on that bad boy makes right seance to me!

Anyhow, thanks again everyone! -Zeb