Overall performance P5 2 Help!

Hi all, I’m new to P-5, just installed it. I was hoping to be able to use it in my notebook just to get some ideas started with a small keyboard controller – but…

The demo’s eat my 1.79 GHz AMD Athlon XP Mobile, and it’s going along at 45+ %.

I’m limited to 480 MB RAM.

My on board audio (Soundmax) is running MME, and is of course poor, but I was hoping it would just work anyway. I’m also showing no midi devices, but one is on the board (sound card.)? In Sonar, it will come up when I set the audio to MME, but not in P-5.

How important is the audio interface as it relates to overall performance in P-5? I have my latency set at 200, and many simpler demo’s will play, but the CPU is running like heck. If I got a better audio card, would that help get the load off the CPU, or do I just not have enough of a system here to work with? Sonar works a lot better.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

kellog

there are a bunch of USB 2.0 interfaces available. Check out musicians friend, you can sort by interface. Firewire is becoming the standard, though... if you have a PCMIA (or whatever it is) slot you could get a Firewire card for that.

Thanks guys. I'm really looking for recommendations from P-5 users, and not trying to be lazy looking for audio cards. I just wanted to see what you were using. Didn't think about the PC cards. I read good things about Echo's, but there are no mic pre's.

I'll have to get into the book for info on freezing tracks (I have no idea what that means.) As long as the others run, I'm happy - most of my projects will be smaller or around that size. Taboo just freaks my whole little PC out. I look forward to getting into P-5. This forum rocks.

kellog

ORIGINAL: kellog

I'll have to get into the book for info

Aaaah yes, that always works for me...hehehehhehehe


Don't mind me i'm just clear nuts

Hi Kellog, and welcome to the forum,
are you by any chance running Ver.2.01? I think the Cpu overhead is reduced quite a bit as opposed to 2.0.
You can download it here (click this!)
Also you might find some pointers for optomizing your P5 workflow here at the P5 wiki as well as at Project 5 dot com (just click the banner at the top of this page.)
Good luck and let us know if you work it out.

-MDK

ORIGINAL: wrench45us


there's a very small number odf systems in the world that 'taboo' can run on

it's a major Cakewalk blunder to have released this as a demo file

i have P4 2.4 gHz system and it doesn't get very far on my system either

i use an Echo Indigo soundcard and it hasn't quit working yet

Is there really that few a number of people who can run Taboo? I only have a 1.5ghz Centrino and can run it at 24-bit playback with 75% cpu hit using an Echo Indigo (running at around 50ms I think).