Lowest latency possible

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Mr. torture
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2011/03/29 21:21:03 (permalink)

Lowest latency possible

Can someone help me achieve the best efficiency out of my computer for mixing.  What I should have running, what isn't necessary etc.

I am using Sonar 8.5.3
Asus P5W DH Deluxe Wireless Edition
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.40 GHz, FSB1066, 4 MB L2, 95W)
Ram - 2 x Kingston ValueRAM DDR2-667 1024MB (Recently upgraded to 4 gig)
(3) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATAII Hard drives
OS - Windows XP Pro OEM SP3

I also have a UAD solo & quad card installed.

Thanks!
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    Rothchild
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    Re:Lowest latency possible 2011/03/30 03:20:13 (permalink)
    For mixing low latency is not really a priority.

    I find if you take it too high though some things get a little flakey (for instance above about 20ms my MCU unit gets a bit flighty)

    Now you've gone to 4 gigs of ram you need to read up and make sure you've adjusted windows '3 gig switch' as 32bit windows can't address that much ram.

    If you can do it I always find that my DAW seems to run better with networking and USB disabled. If you've got no network then a virus buster and firewall are less relevant so you can ditch those.

    There are plenty guides on line for tweaking for audio but generally I find that a nice clean install with minimal additional apps works best. The main setup tweaks for me are to turn off all system sounds, and adjust the power manager to make sure the whole lot is running full tilt all the time.

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    ChristopherM
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    Re:Lowest latency possible 2011/03/31 09:28:58 (permalink)
    If the reference to wireless in your mobo's name means on-board wireless networking and you don't need that, I'd suggest disabling it in BIOS (if possible). Wireless networking (even just idling) seems to be a performance killer on DAW type applications ... but YMMV, as I have no experience of this mobo.
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