Why you never need to optimize

[Ted]

You could instead free up space by backing up the song, and erasing any v-tracks you won't be needing for your bounce or master.  You can only master or bounce up to four v-tracks a once--which means you can erase up to 28 v-tracks in this scenario.

I don't have time to check right now but I suspect that erasing v-tracks won't free up any memory card space. If it did, you wouldn't be able to undo the erase. That's why the song optimize function exists. The BRs support "non-destructive editing" which means that nothing ever gets erased or over-written.

Okay, but after you erased all of v-tracks you don't need any more, you could free up space by... optimizing.  D'oh!

[launched]

Okay, but after you erased all of v-tracks you don't need any more, you could free up space by... optimizing.  D'oh!

Well, I almost had the urge to optimize the other day because my card was getting full (Less than 45mb left - Scaaaary!!), but I got nervous - dumped off four songs and kept going instead... I am fully jinxed!

On the (very) few occasions when the 'Drive Busy' message has reared it's ugly head, I've re-recorded to last offending track, or pressed 'undo', or re-corded a little snippet somewhere and it seems to fix the problem. It's a bit hit and miss, but I haven't had to export everything or lose anything for a very long time....

This will get a laugh:

Because my brain overflows with astuteness and wisdom, when I get the "Drive Busy" error (Which I get a lot), I just hit the stop button and undo. The error comes again and I undo. The error comes again and I undo. The error comes again and I undo. I like shoveling shit uphill    Then I initialize the card...

[Ted]

On the (very) few occasions when the 'Drive Busy' message has reared it's ugly head, I've re-recorded to last offending track, or pressed 'undo', or re-corded a little snippet somewhere and it seems to fix the problem. It's a bit hit and miss, but I haven't had to export everything or lose anything for a very long time....

This will get a laugh:

Because my brain overflows with astuteness and wisdom, when I get the "Drive Busy" error (Which I get a lot), I just hit the stop button and undo. The error comes again and I undo. The error comes again and I undo. The error comes again and I undo. I like shoveling shit uphill    Then I initialize the card...

I will have to remember Greeny's method, which seems a little superstitious to me, but in those situations I'll try anything.

Your method seems a bit like Einstein's definition of insanity.

[launched]

Alright - I have a soft spot for the "If at first you don't succeed" thing!!

[Greeny]

Alright - I have a soft spot for the "If at first you don't succeed" thing!!

It's more like:

"I will NOT be defeated... and definitely not by a f*cking inanimate piece of plastic"

Sheer willpower, lol.

Of course, all of this is usually accompanied by me cursing the Micro as if it could listen and understand the severity of my threats, lol

[launched]

Alright - I have a soft spot for the "If at first you don't succeed" thing!!

It's more like:

"I will NOT be defeated... and definitely not by a f*cking inanimate piece of plastic"

Sheer willpower, lol.

Of course, all of this is usually accompanied by me cursing the Micro as if it could listen and understand the severity of my threats, lol

I'm beside myself right now!!

It can hear you, just like a plant!! Speak soft tones into the onboard mic and your SD card will be fine... "Little Micro, I looooove you!!"

[AndyR]

Nah, if he's like me, he won't speak tenderly or encouragingly to an inanimate object... I mean, it's just a "thing", isn't it?...

But when there's an issue, there'll be plenty of "you f**ing useless piece of sh*t..."

That's one of my favourites - it can be applied to computers, cookers, MBRs, crackly guitar leads, anything!

Of course, the MBR is itself quite intelligent... when addressed in this fashion, it might seem inanimate but, like all computers, it's thinking away quietly...

"I only did what you asked me to do, you utter plonker... you just wait, the next button you press better be the right one, cos there'll be no going back... I'm gonna do just exactly what it says in the guide, and then we'll see what you make of that, thank you very much, you sausage fingered lump of... let's just hope you've done a backup that I can read this time, haha...."

[Ted]

"I only did what you asked me to do, you utter plonker... you just wait, the next button you press better be the right one, cos there'll be no going back... I'm gonna do just exactly what it says in the guide, and then we'll see what you make of that, thank you very much, you sausage fingered lump of... let's just hope you've done a backup that I can read this time, haha...."

I always wondered what the Micro BR would display if it weren't limited to 14 characters.  Now I know.

[launched]

But when there's an issue, there'll be plenty of "you f**ing useless piece of sh*t..."

  I believe a song was made about this!

[Oldrottenhead]

i always optomize a song before the final master, to stop that busy driver message coming up.