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'Cards not responding - plugins disabled' crap-outs?

Horse

Established Member
Does anyone else experience these?

It's not a UAD CPU or memory overload problem - perhaps more of a PCI bus type thing, but every now and then a project that I'm working on in Cubase will 'stutter' quickly for 2 seconds, and then I get an error message similar to the one above.

Once the cards have given up, you can restore functionality by quitting back to desktop and un-ticking/re-ticking boxes in the UAD-1 control panel and then restarting cubase, but very often it seems to be at a point where if it's done it once it's very likely to do it again - until you 'swap about' some of the plugins.

I'm guessing it's a combination of native plugins, Cubase, UAD-1 and Powercore all wedging into a bottleneck for some reason, with the UAD-1's giving way first....

..but if anyone has a more definitive reason for why it happens then I'd be grateful!

Ta -

H :)
 

ambrose

Member
Yes, me too. I get this once in a while.

On my system, i've found the strangest thing to be the problem. It appears that my powercore card takes issue to having a usb-2/firewire card in my system, but only when the uad-1 is present !! Both cards work fine with it when used singly, but not in the combination i need them to!

Powercore + Uad = fine
Powercore + Usb/firewire = fine
UAD-1 + usb/firewire = fine
Powercore + UAD + firewire/usb = lost communication.

I suspect this could be a pci bandwith thing, but i know naff all about that kind of stuff.
 

Horse

Established Member
Hi Ambrose - at least it's not just me then!

The relationship between my 2 UAD's and the Powercore PCI is probably a little precarious to start with - I know if I max out the Powercore it causes a few crackles.

But I think the UAD's drop out when I'm putting too much load on the PC's CPU - despite the UAD's having loads of headroom.

I just wondered if there was a 'fix' that would not make the cards give up so easily.

:(
 
Horse said:
Hi Ambrose - at least it's not just me then!

The relationship between my 2 UAD's and the Powercore PCI is probably a little precarious to start with - I know if I max out the Powercore it causes a few crackles.

But I think the UAD's drop out when I'm putting too much load on the PC's CPU - despite the UAD's having loads of headroom.

I just wondered if there was a 'fix' that would not make the cards give up so easily.

:(
Hi! Have you had any problems with the UAD-1 not responding when you check the UAD meter? My new PCIe Expert Pak won't work. Causes blue screen; see my other post;

morten
 
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