While bouncing the remix I’ve done for Pandora I encountered a strange problem. I could, without any problem at all, play back the song without hearing skips and glitches. The CPU load was around 40% and the UAD load was at 85% - so you could say that the track was nearly finished - or that I need a third UAD-1 card.

When bouncing there was a short skip at 1′57″ which really puzzled me. I tried bouncing the track several times, but the skipping was at the exact same frame everytime. I even tried moving the track in the grid and added up to 70 bars of silence, and bounced the silence, but the skipping occurred at the exact same place. Yes, the real time check box is unchecked.

So, how did I solve it? Well, the solution wasn’t really the most obvious one. I moved everything from bar 68 to the end 8 bars to the right (so I could get the reverb tails and the decay of the delays and so on) and then bounced bar 3 to 76 (my songs almost always starts at bar 3) and then bouncing bar 76 to 233. Then I created a new project and added my previously bounces to the grid, placing them at the bars as in my base remix project. Worked like a charm, but it’s not the prettiest solution. If I tried to freeze tracks as well to solve the skipping during bounce but freezing resulted in a serious crash and trying to kill the Cubase 4 executable shut down my computer very rapidly.

I’ve also installed Cubase 4.1 64 bit, but that won’t find Native Instruments Battery 3. There’s always a problem lurking around the corner - isn’t there? And Z3ta+ isn’t working in a convenient way. It can, whenever it feels like it, produce 100 dB noise which would render some of my other plugins stop functioning - UAD Precision Limiter, for example.

My Motu Midi Express 128 works very well though. The timing is great and I can only blame myself for not hitting the keys on time.