First full freeze-up

surfercook · Post by **surfercook** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:30 am

It was kind of a bummer when it froze because I had layed down an hrs worth of guitaring. But I did sign up for it!!
I am far from an advanced user and couldn't locate all the crash files. It was disappointing not finding them as I was excited to check them out! Did manage to find a "Log" for Mixcraft though.
Took some screenshots of the freeze-up and here are the details.

Opened Mixcraft and left the name as "Project 3"
Loaded Kontakt 5 as a vsti and then loaded "Indigenous Guitars" for Kontakt.
Armed track and recorded about 3 mins of "Harmonic Dance" patch in three separate takes.
Jammed along w/my newly recorded track for a bit to feel out a melody and some soloing.
Tried to load track two w/a new instance of Kontakt 5 and that's when it froze.

This is when I took the screen shots. One odd bit of behavior was the Mixcraft icon in the toolbar was still active after the program closed. A hover of the mouse showed a blank Mixcraft totally white.
Another odd thing was being denied access to the log a second time. I was lucky to have saved a copy of it before closing the first one.
I will attempt the same again at one point. Hope this helps.
The freeze surprised me because I have already done a project w/several vsti tracks and quite a few effects. There wasn't two instances of Kontakt though. I tried opening two Kontakts in MixcraftBeta 6 and it froze again, then went into my REAPER and loaded two instances and it worked fine. So I'm guessing there might be a bug here for you guys.

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YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:45 am

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this!

Greg

surfercook · Post by **surfercook** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:07 pm

This is what I was working on when it froze. I wanted to do the lead synth w/the same one as the rhythm, but since Mixcraft6 kept freezing w/Kontakt I just used one of Mixcraft's synths for the lead. First go w/an audio interface w/the beta- Line6 UX2 w/my Fender Jazz Bass here. Everything went quite smooth w/the UX2.

http://soundcloud.com/marc-halikas/harmonic-dance

surfercook · Post by **surfercook** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:15 pm

This is pretty much a full project for me. I've gotten into the habit of saving my work frequently is RECd so as to not lose anything. But not even a hiccup this time!

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11277459

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:25 am

Note that Mixcraft 6 makes a backup project every time you save. The backup projects are in a sub-folder called Backup that's inside your project folder.

surfercook · Post by **surfercook** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:40 pm

Acoustica Greg wrote:Note that Mixcraft 6 makes a backup project every time you save. The backup projects are in a sub-folder called Backup that's inside your project folder.

Thanx for the heads up on that. Now I just do the long version and save it as a project and overwrite each one.
Just a quickie today....not even a stutter though.

http://soundcloud.com/marc-halikas/sesame-street-theme