d8b Forum

Just picked up my first D8B. When these things came out I was only 10 years old. After years of growing up on A&H and Yamaha PM boards, being forced to mix within protools is a nightmare. My setup is a D8B running 3.0, ADAT cards, all FX slots full, Apogee Clock, HDR24/96 Omniraxs Desk, and a slu of outboard gear, all feeding my Pro tools 8 Mac setup, which hasnt seen much use yet. Was able to pickup the D8b HDR, racks desk, patchbay, set of Alesis Q2 and all the adat cables for $700. I have just a few questions. One is we can't seem to get the thing to upgrade to 5.1, not a big deal as we don't see us using it for a pt control surface, waiting for a mac version of D8bridge for use with logic., (we use a set of profire 2626 for our ITB interface) The other is a little irritating. When assigning auxes to the effects plug ins, aux 5 doesnt seem to stay assigned. It will stay assigned for a few min, then go back to default. the other is, when we boot the unit, the default session will not pass audio. Signal in, meters move, no signal out. If you make a new session, all is well. the machine is a fresh install with new ram, cpu and HD. All work was done by a former mackie tech. I am very excited to have this in my personal studio, its the closest to a SSL and 24 track reel that i can afford. Any help would be appreciated!!!

What do you have assigned yo aux 5? Sounds like the plug in you have is in demo mode. That is what the plug ins do when in demo mode, they give you something like 7 minutes to check iot out and then de-assign until you purchase the unlock code to make it yours to freely use.

Are you using a factory start up file when you boot up or is it using the last session file that was in use? Sounds like your no sound issue is related to whatever the start up file is being used possibly. If you have it set "load last session" try changing it to the factory start up. You can also trash/delete your start up file, in case that has gotten funky at this point, and the console will make a new one upon the next bootup, give that a shot and see if that fixes your issue.

Crash gave you great advice. Also, do upgrade from 3 to 5.1. It's well worth it. And don't forget to upgrade the Service Pack, too.

c-ya,

Dan Worley

I did try to upgrade to 5.1 but i keep getting errors when loading the second disk. Memory extraction issue. To get 3 on it we had to format the drive in a windows machine, and then install from there. I might try to make a new set of disks and try to re load from them. As far as the plug ins go, the previous owner gave me over 50 disc with all diff types of plug ins so maybe i installed the wrong set of disc.

And the plug in assigned to aux 5 is the TC verb, not a big deal tho, I like the out board q2's better

You just say "all EFX slots full", but the TC requires a UFX card, as I remember (that you might have, I don´t know).

>TC FX Plug-in Bug
>YCourtesy: Dave Pine

>The TC FX plug-in that comes free when you have a UFX card installed in the d8b, sometimes only returns the >reverb to one channel instead of two.

>In order to fix this, save your TC FX preset, replace the TC plug-in with any other stereo plug-in you may have >such as Delay Factor. Assign both inputs to the aux you're using. Now, replace the other stereo plug-in with >the TC and load your saved preset and all will be OK.

>The TC likes to have both inputs assigned, even though you can't actually configure it that way on its own.

Manfred

If i remember correctly the first 3 are fx and the last two are ufx, or what ever order there is. Im not sure of the total number of slots. I'll try that fix tmr night when we track. First session is saturday, recording a jazz group!

And the plug in assigned to aux 5 is the TC verb, not a big deal tho, I like the out board q2's better

Ha ha ha.....Anything (and this includes two paper cups and a string) is better than the TC Verb. That plug was a burn. The standard MFX reverb blows it out of the water.

Keep trying to generate a good set of v5.1 disks. That O/S is a HUGE improvement over v3. Good luck on your first session.

FrankH wrote:

And the plug in assigned to aux 5 is the TC verb, not a big deal tho, I like the out board q2's better

Ha ha ha.....Anything (and this includes two paper cups and a string) is better than the TC Verb. That plug was a burn. The standard MFX reverb blows it out of the water.

Keep trying to generate a good set of v5.1 disks. That O/S is a HUGE improvement over v3. Good luck on your first session.

+1.

It can take a few tries to get a clean set and install. I don't know why that is. Of course now, I can't create any kind of floppy disk, so you're one up on me.

c-ya.,

Dan Worley