Syrnix
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Quick Computer Question
My current setup is
Sonar 8.5
Win 7 Pro 64
AMD Phenom II X4 955
8GB Ram
I run a lot of soft synths and effects such as Toontrack superior drums, East West Symphony, Dimension Pro and a bunch of effects. when i get a lot of them going at once I get a lot of dropout of the Midi note. for example drum hits may not play or note in symphony midi tracks will note play
What will help with this the most increasing system memory or upgrading the CPU. I don't believe i can increase the CPU much without a new motherboard. Memory will be the easiest and cheapest solution if that will work. I am thinking of upgrading to 16Gb of Ram.
Thanks for any info
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 17, 11 5:11 PM
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Try raising the buffers titled "Midi buffers...prepare using". You can double it from the default which is 250 ms IIRC. That should help.
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Syrnix
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 18, 11 5:45 PM
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I will try raising the midi buffers but still want to know if more memory will help also.
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Chappel
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 18, 11 5:46 PM
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Do you ever freeze your soft synths?
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daveny5
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 18, 11 5:54 PM
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What soundcard are you using?
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Syrnix
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 18, 11 6:36 PM
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no i never freeze my soft synths. my sound card is a m-audio fast track.
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Cactus Music
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 19, 11 1:15 AM
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To me 8 Gigs is a lot and adding more has normally been a good idea. But it was only a short while ago everybody got by with 2 gigs, so to me that seems disproportional to end up "needing" 16 Gigs. There's more to having a smooth running DAW than just hot rod specs. Have you checked your system with the dpclat meter to see if somethings hogging the CPU cycles? Your interface will have nothing to do with dropouts, dropouts are CPU/Memory related. Freezing synths is a way around a wimpy computer system so give it a go. It's free!
post edited by Cactus Music - July 19, 11 1:18 AM
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re:Quick Computer Question
July 19, 11 1:52 AM
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I don't think adding RAM will have any effect on the randomly skipped MIDI-notes, but I'm not quite sure. I just figure that if the cause is a preparation buffer too small, then adding RAM will not fix that.
SONAR PE 8.5.3, Asus P5B, 2,4 Ghz Dual Core, 4 Gb RAM, GF 7300, EMU 1820, Bluetube Pre - Kontakt4, Ozone, Addictive Drums, PSP Mixpack2, Melda Creative Pack, Melodyne Plugin etc. The benefit of being a middle aged amateur is the low number of years of frustration ahead of you.
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