VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[cyclometh]

We frequently have discussions here about the merits of this software or that. But I'd like to relate an experience I just had that points up why the price tag of a lot of the good DAWs is totally worth it, because even when they fail they do so well.

I was over an hour into a long narration for an audiobook. This is a military history piece and has been a slog- very interesting topic to me, but two chapters so far have been more than 90 minutes long. That's hard to get through.

I was about four pages from the end when Cubase hung. Stuck dead. My stomach twisted as I contemplated losing all that work- at least two hours of narration gone?

I killed the task and reopened Cubase. It had automatically backed up the project, but about fifteen or twenty minutes was not there. On a hunch I went and looked in the scratch folder that Cubase uses and sure enough, there's a ton of files.

Sort them by creation date, drag them into the project and stitch them together and I'm back to where I was before the crash, minus one sentence.

The point is that even though the software failed, it had good design and defense in depth. It crashed- but there was a backup. The backups are still on an interval, but the software records everything to disc as you go, and does it in a way that's super-easy to figure out- by numbered WAV files.

This is why I like good software. That failure mode saved me enough to pay over half the cost of a brand-new copy of Cubase 7.

Plenty of options out there- some are cheap, some are good, but few are both.
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Corey "Vox Man" Snow
http://voxman.net

[heyguido]

Amen.... and Hallelujah!
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Don Brookshire
"Wait.... They wanna PAY me for this?"

[JTVG]

I've been burned on Adobe quite a few times over the years, as their recovery feature can still fail. Now I'm wondering if there's a folder somewhere that backs it up in chunks, like Cubase.
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Joe Szymanski
http://www.joethevoiceguy.com

[Scolaidhe]

This is why I use a solid-state recorder.