Hot Key for Bounce to Disk

Is there a hot key combination to start the Bounce to Disk process? Since Protools does not EVER bounce on the first try, I was wondering if there is a hot key combo to start that process. If there is not, it would be very cool to have one [this means you Digidesign Programmers!!!]. Most of the time I have to try bouncing three of four time before I will get a complete bounce, and it's very annoying to have to mouse over to File>Bounce to Disk>etc... It would be much fast if there were a hot key for this process. If there is not one, may I suggest Ctrl-Alt-B to bring up the bounce process?

I would be more concerned as to why it doesn't bounce the first time, because it should. What happens when it stops a bounce before it's through?(any errors?). PT Version 6.1 has known bounce problems for some which was fixed with 6.4. Tell us more if you would, including basic specs. -Roy

Well, I get a variety of errors. Usually it's the audio preccessing is conflicting with other CPU tasks, or the run of the mill H/W buffer errors, or sometimes a CPU held off interupts too long. I used to get the Can't get audio from disk fast enough error, but that stopped after I 1) upgraded to 6.4, and 2) formmated my audio partition NTFS with 32K allocation size. My system is a self build Athon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz), with an Abit KG7-RAID motherboard, 768MB of PC2100 DDR RAM drom Crucial, two 7200 RPM Western Digital Caviar hard drives (80Gig and 100Gig with 8MB cache). Running Windows XP Pro, SP1. Digi told me that they won't support my system because the KG7-RAID motherboard uses the AMD 761 chipset on the Northbridge and the VIA 686B on the Southbridge. And, they won't support 1) mixed chipsets, and 2) any chipset from AMD. Kind of funny when you think about it, since the 761 Northbridge is AMD's reffrence chipset that all of the original Socket A designs were supposed to be based on. Anyway, so I thought, if they would just implement a hot key combo for Bouncing to Disk, then my life would be much easier as I could just hit the hot keys, instead of having to mouse all over the whole screen to Bounce. So, I guess there is no hot key combo for Bouncing to Disk?

"So, I guess there is no hot key combo for Bouncing to Disk?" Not to my knowledge......let me ask you this (shot in the dark)...do you have your drives set to DMA mode (and not PIO)? If you're not sure, I would check in Dev.Mgr. and see, because sometimes when you reload XP it will default to PIO......this happened to me just recently, and PT began acting crazy. I thought it was possibly a virus, but after getting it back to DMA, things smoothed out. Worth a try... -Roy

...And if that doesnt help, you might consider a new CPU or even a new motherboard. MOBO's arent that expensive, and tehre's a wealth of knowledge here at the DUC to find out wich one to take that also accepts everything you have now (pci-cards, memory, CPU etc.)

Ditto on trying a new mobo. ASUS has a couple that work great for many of us. 6.4 solved my bounce problems completely. You have to get used to the fact that PT is a very finicky beast and just won't play nice with lots of hardware. You can't cheat those compatibility details.

I'm running DMA on everything that will take it. I will hope to upgrade my motherboard/CPU/RAM withing a couple of months, or mabey just build myself a whole new system for use with Protools and other music/recording software. But until then, it would be nice to have a hot key for Bouncing to Disk.

I agree on the hotkey front. It would be great if there was a hotkey for every function as it can speed things up so much! I love the command focus feature!!! Benderissimo

I used to have that exact motherboard with Pro Tools 5.1.1 and Windows ME, and it worked fine, you just can't use the raid feature. However, once I upgraded to XP and the newer 5.3.1, I had to get a new motherboard. It sucks but I think that's the only thing you can really do unless you already have everything else working properly.