formatting this thing is really just a guess, but i can't figure out why else the corruption would be so random. the way i figure it is that either:

1) it goes looking for file blah.wav and finds a half dozen entries, then spits back something mangled.

2) that part of the drive is really badly fragmented, and it's not able to put the files together in real time without stuttering.

either way, i figure it can't hurt, but i'm going to need to copy the files off, format, scan, copy back and then defragment.

that'll likely take me to the end of the day. argh. but i don't want to lose the vst mix when i start redoing the new one.

i think something i can check is to see if it's doing the same thing from the other drive or not.