Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Am I the only one?

On Windows 10, every time I save, my screen freezes for a second or so, and my soundcard "gasps."

And when I close the program, it freezes for up to 5 seconds. Worse on Windows 7, up to 10 seconds. I've gone through all the settings I could find online to maximize my computers for audio recording, but still.

I'm wondering if others also experience this? Any way to "fix" this or is this native to Mixcraft? I would like to know before digging deeper into looking for a solution.

Thanks!

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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Hi,

How fast is your hard drive? Are you saving to an external drive or something?

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Hi, I've got the same situation when it comes to saving, started about a month ago when I was on Windows 10 and using the internal SATA hard drive, it would freeze/gasp for about 3-5 seconds when I was saving. Since then I've upgraded to Windows 11 and an internal SSD drive and it still freezes/gasps for a couple of seconds. This only occurs when I save with the Transport on and playing. I haven't had any issues with freezing when closing the program. Thanks
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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Hi,

Mixcraft can "freeze" momentarily while it's waiting for a process to complete. Is it waiting for a hard drive to catch up? Is it waiting for an audio driver to release control of the sound device? Is it waiting for a plugin to do something? What you're doing at the time and what you've got going on in the project can be a clue.


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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Hi Greg, Do you experience the same issue?

I use SSDs for the OS and SSDs for the virtual samples and VSTs. No external drives.

Windows 7 computer - 16GB RAM and M-Audio Fast-Track Ultra sound card.

Windows 10 computer - 32 GB RAM and I use an Audient i14 MKII sound card.

I've always been curious about this setting in Preferences:

High priority threads for audio engine. The box is ticked.

Force single CPU is not ticked.
R Nashville wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:47 pm This only occurs when I save with the Transport on and playing.
It's worse on Win 10 for me (saving while playback), it seems to be easier on Win 7 to do that on my end.
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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Hi,

The next time you notice a bad case of it, quit Mixcraft and send us your mixcraft-log.txt file.

To find the mixcraft-log file, highlight the following line and press Ctrl+C to copy it:

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%appdata%\Acoustica\Mixcraft\
Press the Windows Key+R to pop up the Run box in Windows. Click in the Run box and press Ctrl+V to paste in the line from above. Finally, click OK to go to the location of the mixcraft-log.txt file. Submit an Acoustica Support Request and attach the log file along with a brief description of the problem.

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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Hi,

Oh, and also...

"Force Single CPU" should never be selected. (It's just there for troubleshooting rare issues).
"High priority threads for audio engine" should always be selected. (Same deal).

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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Yup. Just for a split second though. Not a big deal. I thought it was normal, tbh. I have an i9, with 32 GB RAM and an SSD, so I doubt it’s a performance isssue
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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Are people hitting save during playback?
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cactus-head wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:08 pm Are people hitting save during playback?
Some DAW's are more tolerant of this than others.
In others it seems to trigger freezes and crashes.

I dont recommend it.
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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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Hi,
I never save while my project is playing. To me, it would seem normal to have a playback issue while saving, as data is trying to be stored while other functions are trying to use the computers drives and RAM. Some data might become a priority while saving, which would interior the data with less.priority.
On my old computer I only had 2 hard drives. One for OS, and the other for my East West library and record. I had some issues while playing a library sound ( like grand piano ) and recording it at the same time. The computer was trying to record data and also playback sounds from the same drive.
On my new computer I had 3 drives installed. One SSD for OS, second drive for VST library sounds, and the third for recording. This way my library sounds wouldn't be affected while recording.

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Re: Does your DAW freeze for a second when saving?

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me too. I would never save while playing. I only save when no playback or any sound or motion happening...
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