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With bugs rife wouldnt an autosave function be useful

I vote for that one. Could have saved me hours of work.

That would be pretty cool, yeah.

Would be nice if it ran flawlesly

I keep Autosave off on programs that have the option, just because it stresses the system when I'm already stressing it badly, and thus leads to instability. I prefer to stop (ie. every 15 minutes) playing, let the system relax, and then save my files in Pulsar, Cubase, Reason,... before pressing Play again. Must have been a trauma from some time which I can't remember...

If it does it's job well though, like there seems to be easy loading/saving in SFP, I'm pro Autosave off course!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: at0mic on 2002-05-09 16:27 ]</font>

Are you all realy sure about this?

I do exact the same as you, Atom, I often do apple-S while not playing, but I would never activate an auto save funktion.

What if you did some edits in your sequencer just to try something you're not sure about, than it gets saved, and THAN you get a freez?

I wouldn't feel free to do brutal edits when needed.

Just a thought.
What would you say?

Let There Be Music!

some autosaves are smart - they do not replace your "real" file; the just create a backup and replace every X minutes. . . so nothing to worry about with editing - and you DO make backups of important files anyways, RIGHT? ;D

"some autosaves are smart"

You played too much with MS Office Think that is realistic on DAW? I am hoping with you... "Word" or "Excel" don't mind coming a 1/44100 second later, Cubase does!

it would be good if it could detect when the system was reasonably idle so it doesnt try to save mid way through a recording but i think that something that saved every 5 minutes to a number of sequential backups, renaming them each time so that say bak1 was the latest, going back to bak5 which would be 25 minutes old.

I think this would be especially useful as there are no undo functions anywhere!

Yes, that would be great, to have some resource gate, above which no AutoSave would be allowed. But sometimes you may be low on CPU while drives are spinning like mad (multitrack audio only), or when working w VSTi and fx, no drive action when CPU is at high stress (mostly my case;)

I love Pulsar's auto backup option, I have it set to "3" and when my song starts to sound different, I save under another name so I can have lots of quick restore points.

yes,
like Export song in cubase

Save all presets/sts programs/ etc in a folder specidied by the user.

actually, at0mic, I was thinking of the way Pulsar 3.01 and Cubase works . . . or did I miss something

M$ was the furthest thing from my mind