Ugh, I hate my computer...

My Ye Olde Computer has failed me yet again. I was working on a song for so long, around 5 hours straight or so, on FL Studio. It was one of those laid-back classical rock songs with piano, strings, bass and a drum kit. It was really coming out well... Then, I moved my strings soundfont from the browser to the step sequencer, and once I put it on, it said it started loading it. It's been "loading" ever since... (1 hour's wait and no luck). I can't click on FL Studio to bring it up from the taskbar, and the only thing I can do is right click on FL Studio from the taskbar and close it, only to probably meet the familiar 'This program is not responding', press 'End Now' and enter the computer's eternal crash. Then, I end up having to turn the computer off from the tower, start up, and my file would be nowhere to be seen...

I mean seriously, it's only 2 MB, and usually it only takes around 15 seconds to load on my computer. Suddenly, because my computer started thinking, "Oh, I haven't deceived him yet... better think of something..." I have to put up with losing 5 hours of work. Now I'll never remember the melody, the drum samples I used, and the mixer settings X[]. Well, that's 512 MB Ram for you X(.

Does FL Studio have some sort of autosave feature or something, because that would really be darn helpful...

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DaveGuy 2009-11-09 17:34:22

500 and fucking megabytes of RAM? Ugh. Your computer does suck. Yno what I usually do. I just export as an mp3 EVERY SINGLE 8 BARS of my song.
So I just do this. I name a folder the name of the song I will submit to NG

then I just save multiple files

1-9 bar WIP
1-17bar WIP
1-25 bar Wip
1-33bar wip
and then I'll go flexible
1-49 bar wip
1-65 bar

and so far for how long you want you song. Yno what happened? I went minimize the screen and ended up closing it up by mistake (clicked the x instead of the -) you know they are so close together. I literally saved 65 bars of music because of that. I exported every 9 bars. But one time while I was making Lost in the void. I was finished the song. I didn't export. I just left the computer on over night. Turns out we had a power outage and I was furious. Had to start all over again.

So you need a better computer with better Ram. If it just closes on you like that then that's not a good sign -_-.

Let's just hope it doesn't happen again. =)

Step 2009-11-09 17:34:22

I'd do that, but my ever so trustworthy RAM would take ages to export even a bar of my song. I suppose best way to do it is to hit CTRL + S every few seconds. I forgot how many bars I had done in the song, but it was quite a lot. I tried to remake what I did before, trying to remember the notes, and they did sound similar, but my original melody was so much better. Yeah, I hope it doesn't happen again :P. Thanks for the comment :).

DJ-Chilvan 2009-11-21 11:12:47

Shiiiit man, that sucks =(. But look on the bright side, it happens to all of us (this kind of fate bitch slaps me at least once a month =P). My advice to you is start now to remake the song. Try your best to remember at least a little of the melody. If you start, you will get even better ideas, so your finished product will be better that what it would have been. I've experienced stuff like this countless times (not all pertaining to music though, but I've had my few), and every time I redo it, it turns out even better. I also think of 'Animal Farm,' on the part when they build some massive windmill and have to rebuilt it because it got destroyed. That part of the book gave me the optimum motivation.
Good Luck!

Step 2009-11-21 11:12:47

Yeah... Well, sometimes stuff like that happens to me, like when I make Powerpoint presentations, or when I write my books. Sometimes, my computer decided to crash, and I have to turn it off, therefore losing all of my work (luckily, sometimes it autorecovers, but recently I've been making AutoRecovery save the file every hour or so instead of 10 minutes, since it takes around 2 minutes to save my presentations because they're around 400 MB and they interfere a lot :\. Then, I end up wasting up to an hour's work), and when I start again, I think of much better ideas, or when in a game, I lose my saving, and my second ends up much better. It even happens a LOT to me when I write my reviews (lol, your "My Saviour (Dance Remix)" was reviewed almost twice by me :P) just because my Internet comes up with the oh so dreaded message 'Internet Explorer has encountered a problem'. The second time I write my review, it ends up much more long and helpful XD.

Sadly, that's not what happened here. The submission I was working on (now submitted as Not a Care in the World) was much better before than it is now. I had very good ideas for melodies concerning the strings, and I had the bass done already, plus the melodies were much better before than now, but when I had to start all over again the next day, my mind was blank of strings ideas, I completely forgot the catchy bassline and the melodies weren't as good as before. Oh well, I should've started again just after it crashed instead of the next day :\.

Lol, what a coincedence, that part in Animal Farm was the motivation I needed to start all over again too :P. I guess I should've credited George Orwell in the Author's Comments XD. Anyway, thanks for the comment, and sorry for the mind-boggingly big answer =/.