Installed my first real program on S3...disaster beyond

[ShinraCorp]

Unless Cherry Trail has some sort of magical problems (it seems to be like that lately with driver issues and Tech Previews not working.) Then I do not know what to say besides either download the latest version on your Surface or contact Steinburg.

 

[WillBthr]

I figured out the following:

If Wavelab 8 is working/accessing/getting audio (wave file format) stored on the micrdSD card it enters "not responding" mode. Close Wavelab and try to reopen... forget it. Force shutdown and pray. Reboot...then

Place wave files on the included main c: drive and things are ok.

I have not tried getting the audio wave files off of my Samsung SSD T1 via USB (Wavelab requires USB dongle) but I do know that when I connected this SSD T1 device to S3 and then attempt to properly disconnect USB device Surface perpetually tells me I can't disconnect the SSD because it is in use by some program.... but it isn't. Tried multiple times.

Headphone Jack Placement - Different subject but if hold S3 as a tablet with both hands on each side near the bottom the right side is where you have the headphone jack/ - connecter and therefore is in the way. Really stupid in fact. Surface 2 was must better.

 

[anon(5327127)]

I've been saying that all along and everyone told me that I was an "*****" and that "the new Atom processors are better than they were before", looks like I had the last laugh there then!!!

So.. You've TOTALLY ignored the reviews then and kept on repeating your statement DESPITE the reviews proving otherwise. Yay for you

P.s. The guy answered his own problem above which is great.

 

[jsooney]

I figured out the following:

If Wavelab 8 is working/accessing/getting audio (wave file format) stored on the micrdSD card it enters "not responding" mode. Close Wavelab and try to reopen... forget it. Force shutdown and pray. Reboot...then

Place wave files on the included main c: drive and things are ok.

I have not tried getting the audio wave files off of my Samsung SSD T1 via USB (Wavelab requires USB dongle) but I do know that when I connected this SSD T1 device to S3 and then attempt to properly disconnect USB device Surface perpetually tells me I can't disconnect the SSD because it is in use by some program.... but it isn't. Tried multiple times.

Maybe you need a faster SD card? On the USB disconnect problem, it could be that something is accessing the drive in the background, maybe an AV scanning process, indexing, defrag or something like that. You might want to check running processes to see if something is running that you aren't aware of. Windows Resource Monitor is very useful for figuring out which program is doing what, if that makes any sense.

It's an interesting thread though. I posted a thread in the Surface 3 Pro forum asking if one of these things can hack audio work, I guess the answer is maybe.

 

[WillBthr]

Dude!! are you really comparing the most awesome laptop workstation with great specs for 2000$ to a 2in1 tablet with atom?

Background: Last year I needed a portable DAW that allowed me to duplicate my studio workstation exactly (64bit Cubase 8 Pro with sometimes 10-25 audio tracks, 3-6 midi tracks playing to Halion 5 instruments, SteveSlate Drums and VST plugins 64bit such as Lexicon Reverbs, DMG EQ & Compression etc). I purchased a RME USB UCX audio interface. My studio has a UFX.

I first tried my old Thinkpad T500 knowing it would run out of CPU power and it did.

The Surface Pro 3 i5 had just been released so I gave it a try not expecting complete success. It did very well but it too would stutter on some projects. I monitor with Sennheiser HD600 (open) phones and when the SP3 fan would run it was distracting to say the least. The screen size made editing difficult too.

The eventual solution was the W540 and it is powerful but expensive. Everything I've done on my HP studio workstation I can do on the W540. It's fan kicks in to but the pitch is less distracting than the SP3 pitch for my ears.

In no way was I attempting to compare the S3 to the W540. Having purchased the S3 though I thought it would be convenient to be able to grab my stereo mix (wave) audio files off of OneDrive, listen and if desired run WaveLab to convert the 48k 24b wave files to Fraunhofer 320k Variable Bit Rate MP3 files (*** If one can use the word "good" and MP3 together -- I've found this format to be the "good" format***) to send via email or share via OneDrive. (Ex. Original Stereo 48k 24b wave=~100MB; WMA Lossless 48k 24b=~60MB; Fraunhofer VBR=~6MB.

As I've have already posted above: Wavelab runs fine as long as I don't put the audio on the microSD card. My card: Lexar High-Performance MicroSDXC 633x 128GB UHS-I/U3 (Up to 95MB/s Read). I'll have to try another.

I'd like to change the title of the tread to "solution" rather than "disaster" but I don't see how to do that.

Above SP3 vs. S3 video was interesting. Thanks.

 

[lbp775]

I've been saying that all along and everyone told me that I was an "*****" and that "the new Atom processors are better than they were before", looks like I had the last laugh there then!!!

Having owned a Dell Venue pro 8 and now a surface 3, I will confirm that this generation of atom processors is better than the last.

 

[WillBthr]

Today's June Firmware Update fixed both my issues and the audio quality via headphone output is much improved.
Nice they got these fixes/improvements out so fast.