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Re: [Logic_Cafe] Can't Freeze files w plug-ins. error -40

2005-08-19 by GAmoore@aol.com

I get the following error message whwn I try to freeze my softsynth tracks:
"Attempt to position before start of file
result code = -40"



Never asaw that. Did you move the start of the song? You can start at bar 0 or -1 or -10 or whatever. Or you could have a region starting at bar -1 but the song start at bar 0. I would investigate that. You can go to the ruler bar, and drag the start point left or right.


Consequently, the freeze audio will not be created (even though Logic treats the the track
as frozen for any editing operations)



I think you can just hit the freeze button, but not hit play, so it had not gone through the freezing process but it still won't allow you to edit anything. Another weird thing is if you freeze a track and then lengthen the number of bars, it just cuts out (say if there is a loop). I also don't understand why the freezing process on empty parts takes as long as it does. If you have a single region from bars 100 to 120, you will see it jumping from 1 to 2 to 3.... albeit quickly, but it should not take any time at all.

and processing power at playback is not optimized.


even when frozen and it decreases processing load, it raises disk load.

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