liquid mix settings saving problems!

dougal engineer · 28th August 2009

Hi there

I have had a liquid mix for a couple of years and have had no problems with it at all till now. I haven't used it for a while and i upgraded the software first to V2.

I have just opened all my old Pro Tools sessions that I used liquid mix with and the plug ins are present on the inserts but there are no settings saved whatsoever! I presume this is because i upgraded the software. I searched the installer and there is no mention or warning of this happening so I am pretty pissed off to say the least.

This has occurred with every session i have done - the settings are all blank. The settings were always kept within the pro tools session files before but not now.

And to add insult to injury - now when i start a new session (post V2 software update) and put liquid mix on a channel and change the settings they are lost on reopening pro tools as well.

V2 has been out a while and this can't be right. I don't want to have to save my snapshots on every insert manually!!

Finally, when I try to open up a Pro Tools session which has liquid mix inserts on it and the liquid mix is not present (sometimes I am at different studios) Pro tools crashes on start up when it says "cannot locate liquid mix hardware" whereas before I would just cancel liquid mix and the session would open with the liquid mix plug ins as inactive.

Can anybody help please?

Thanks

Pro Tools 7.4 LE & HD
Macbook Pro 10.4.11
2GB RAM 2.33 Ghz

noah330 · 28th August 2009

I had the same issue with my MBP and DP.

I believe that the issue may be that the settings are overwritten when a new install of the driver is installed. I could be wrong about this but I did have a lot of my settings wiped out with the install.

dougal engineer · 28th August 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by noah330

I had the same issue with my MBP and DP.

I believe that the issue may be that the settings are overwritten when a new install of the driver is installed. I could be wrong about this but I did have a lot of my settings wiped out with the install.

Thanks Noah . Yes this explains the old settings not being there from the previous software pre V2 but now my settings on new sessions (set up after V2 update are not saving! I'm guessing this issue has been addressed by Focusrite as evry one with a Liquid Mix can't be using the older software....?

The only problem I have with installing the older software is that it doesn't have the fix for "hardware follows plug ins" and I HATE changing the track input etc on the hardware.....

Any idea why I can't open sessions and PT freezes when liquid mix not present???

Cheers

Chris Lago · 28th August 2009

The reason why I sold my Liquid Mix.

noah330 · 29th August 2009

I had a lot of issues with mine when I got it. Like Chris, I came close to selling mine.

The main issue was the LM (unlike the UAD-1 I first bought in the Mackie days) takes a while to set up properly.

Now that I have it working I like it a lot and it sounds great. The last issue I had with it was total crashing in DP6. After trying everything I could think of I found that changing driver priority from medium (which is what Focusrite reccomends) to high and the LM works great.

All my settings get saved so I can't help - but I have had that problem.

What I did - and it was a little bit of a PITA - was just to save my settings as presets before I closed my project.

28th August 2009	#1
dougal engineer Gear nut Joined: Jul 2009 Location: england Posts: 82 Thread Starter	liquid mix settings saving problems! Hi there I have had a liquid mix for a couple of years and have had no problems with it at all till now. I haven't used it for a while and i upgraded the software first to V2. I have just opened all my old Pro Tools sessions that I used liquid mix with and the plug ins are present on the inserts but there are no settings saved whatsoever! I presume this is because i upgraded the software. I searched the installer and there is no mention or warning of this happening so I am pretty pissed off to say the least. This has occurred with every session i have done - the settings are all blank. The settings were always kept within the pro tools session files before but not now. And to add insult to injury - now when i start a new session (post V2 software update) and put liquid mix on a channel and change the settings they are lost on reopening pro tools as well. V2 has been out a while and this can't be right. I don't want to have to save my snapshots on every insert manually!! Finally, when I try to open up a Pro Tools session which has liquid mix inserts on it and the liquid mix is not present (sometimes I am at different studios) Pro tools crashes on start up when it says "cannot locate liquid mix hardware" whereas before I would just cancel liquid mix and the session would open with the liquid mix plug ins as inactive. Can anybody help please? Thanks Pro Tools 7.4 LE & HD Macbook Pro 10.4.11 2GB RAM 2.33 Ghz

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28th August 2009	#2
noah330 Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 590	I had the same issue with my MBP and DP. I believe that the issue may be that the settings are overwritten when a new install of the driver is installed. I could be wrong about this but I did have a lot of my settings wiped out with the install.

28th August 2009	#4
Chris Lago Project Code CL2465 Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Who lives? Posts: 10,767 3 Reviews written	The reason why I sold my Liquid Mix.

29th August 2009	#5
noah330 Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 590	I had a lot of issues with mine when I got it. Like Chris, I came close to selling mine. The main issue was the LM (unlike the UAD-1 I first bought in the Mackie days) takes a while to set up properly. Now that I have it working I like it a lot and it sounds great. The last issue I had with it was total crashing in DP6. After trying everything I could think of I found that changing driver priority from medium (which is what Focusrite reccomends) to high and the LM works great. All my settings get saved so I can't help - but I have had that problem. What I did - and it was a little bit of a PITA - was just to save my settings as presets before I closed my project.