Metro auto-archiving a track?

[GarySome1]

Are there conditions where Metro will automatically archive a track? I'm guessing maybe as a function of running out of RAM.

I am working on a song that has ~14 tracks (7 stereo) going at any time. It is made up of a main song section (call it section 1) that has 2 tracks. The first track is made up of many sub-sections which all contain only audio tracks. The second track is an audio track sparsely populated with a few riffs.

If I play the song section the second track appears to automatically archive maybe 1 or 2 second into playing and the audio gets gets glitchy across the whole song. If I unarchive the track it will auto archive again the next time I play the song. If I play any other section on its own (say section 2) everything seems fine.

G5 dual 2.0, 512MB RAM, the project file is about 350MB if I save it as a package.

[Jerm]

Gary,

Metro has a limit of 64 audio tracks and then it will begin auto-archiving. If you have subsections it may be hard to tell when you hit this limit.

I think in the next version Metro will allow more audio tracks.

What I would do is save the document, then expand the subsections. This will allow you to see that many tracks could be and probably should be combined. Combining them will significantly reduce the audio track count.

Alternatively you could pre-mix and archive one or more of the subsections.

I am assuming you mean 'Bundle' when you say 'Package'.

[GarySome1]

Bundle - yes!

Thanks for the quick reply, I am quite sure there is plenty of archiving going on. I have about 10 sections each with about 7 stereo audio tracks or 140 audio tracks. 141 including the "riff" track.

Having more audio tracks available is a great feature idea at least for this user because I like to work with a lot if little sections and when mixdown time comes around I record all of my MIDI tracks to individual audio tracks even for my multitimbral modules so if I want to change the mix later I don't have come back and re-record the MIDI tracks.

Thanks again for the fast reply - it is no wonder on music forums you always get high marks for excellent support.