What are some things to check?
Not sure what happened between yesterday and today but GP5 stopped recording.
click the REC button, then click “Start” and the record window closes and the REC button never turns red. it’s not recording.
However it does create the folder, it just will not record any audio to it.
Record with only two tracks:
Input 1 (dry)
Output Mains (all effects)
Options > Recording
Check your channel selections.
…yes, that’s the window that also pops up when clicking the REC Icon.
I did not purposely change any settings and have done many recordings.
If it has been working properly up until now, then something else changed. Was there a Windows update, perhaps? Or an anti-virus update that’s no longer allowing GP to “write” to files?
good idea to check, thanks.
no…but there is one pending.
“024-10 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems”
also, if it can the folder it should be able to record the audio, meaning, it’s not a permissions issue.
All other recording apps work as expected.
Well, GP by itself isn’t going to suddenly stop working for no reason. SOMETHING has to be different. One reason that recording might fail is if there isn’t enough diskspace. Is that a possibility? Were you maybe recording to a different drive?
agreed. if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. So when everything is working I don’t purposely change anything. Same drive, plenty of space. etc.
Restarted PC and tried again today, Recorder is not working.
The difference today is, now after pressing the REC icon, it will not create the project folder.
GP5 is ‘run as administrator’
Looking in to the win 10 updates(that have not been installed) and will report back.
Out of curiosity, if you change the record location to the C drive, does the issue persist? In your screenshot I see you have it recording to the D drive.
Poss a permission issue- I had the same problem
Always recorded to drive D. Never had to set any special permissions.
I just followed these instructions:
win 10 Update KB5044091
# How to perform a clean boot in Windows
After the PC restarted the first thing was to open GP5 and try to record.
It is not Recording only but creates the project File. lol
…so right back where i started yesterday + a windows update. yeah.
how did you fix the Permission Issue? I’m the Admin on this PC and everything worked as expected, until it didn’t.
Tried your idea, but No it did not record. It did create the project folder.
Made some progress…i had a thought that maybe the Project names were to long.
example: “TEMPLATE 24 - LIVE - E - THU MG6 SCALER”
Windows historically has a 256 char limit on the full path and file name.
So was this failure happening with a new gigfile that had a long name or was it happening with existing gigfiles?
It must be something in that particular gig file that is the issue.
I’m going to re-build the project and see which VST might be causing the issue. Anyway, opened some older projects and they all recorded as expected. Here are a few examples.
NOT RECORDING (problem seems specific to this project)
TEMPLATE 24 - LIVE - E - THU MG6 SCALER
character count = 39
RECORDING
TEMPLATE 9 - CORNELL - All Night Thing - GUITAR PIANO 2
character count = 55
And you don’t have anything mapped to the Record Audio parameter of a System Action plugin in the gig file in question?
unless there’s a way to accidentally do that, no.
Opening older projects with longer file name is working as expected.
I’m gonna focus on practice and not worry about this for now. Will report back later.
~ Thanks for the suggestions. 
What happens if you change the name of the project, or save the gigfile with a different name?
I’m wondering if some extra (invisible) character somehow got into that template name
Just some suggestions:
