Jumbicat

A1MixMan

I'm seeing a downside to Solid State Drives.

 
Jumbicat, can you explain this further as I am about to buy 2 SSD's.  What downside?

I would get the SSD's...they really are great. Be sure to spec the sata6 drives if your motherboard supports that speed. 
 
I've read where sections of the "Fixed platter" may degrade over time causing data loss and/or corruption.  In my case, Diminsion Pro 64bit module was the cuplrit and my first thought was something or some file went south causing the module to freeze. 
 
I have absolutley no evidence this is the case.  I was just suggesting to D that most of the time like Craig said, it's hardware not software that's the issue. I'll have more information on the DimPro issue and can post findings. 
Sorry about that

IndustryStandard


Sonar X1|HD which should include the HD 32 Core card and an HD Accel card, offering more than  32times the mixing and processing power of Pro Tools  systems, support for 64 channels of I/O*, Infinate Midi channels plus guaranteed support for up to 384 simultaneous audio tracks with no stress on the computer. Alternate Mac Versions are also available. Price available upon request...hey...I can dream can't I?

jbow

System Spec: CPU 2x X7560 Xeon 16-Core, 48 GIG Ram Kingston, Intel with Supermicro Workstation MP Boards, RME HDSPe, Radeon HD 5970

 
DAYUM......    That is a mean system
 
Me like!
 
JB

Supercomposer

stratman70

Supercomposer

trimph1


I'm kind of puzzled about why it could work on essentially the same platform with some people and yet not do the same on someone else's..

 
People use different features, there are the users who throw in 5 tracks and import some urban techno dubstep triphow whatever loops and applaud how GREAT that works,  and others with 100 MIDI tracks running to VSTi having a chrash fest und find countless bugs, yet others, mostly the known fanbois here who obviously do nothing than opening the program and look at it, but mostly work on their post count here at the forum.
 
Still puzzled?

How could you possibly know that? You are one cynical individual. so any one who does not have issues does not use the program-Well, not like the great composer you are, of course
 
frickin' unbelievable.

Well thanks for the personal attack, but I did NOT say what you made out of it. I said exactly what I quoted, meaning if you use different features than the ones others use, or just do not push the program that hard AS OTHERS DO, you might NOT run into problems, fine. But if you use X1 under heavy workload, I am talking actually about a fu***** LONG time builiding a suitable template, with 20+ Kontakt instances, Vienna Ensemble Pro, East West Play, three different synths and imported video material, do THAT, and X1 will fail miserably, it WILL and it DOES fail, it perhaps does not fail for loop cutter hip hop beat boys, or people simply looking at the pretty GUI discussing button colors here, or some vocal or guitar recording + a handful synths, well, WOOOHOOO, which DAW can´t do all that in 2011??
 
X1 fails for my purpose, miserably, and I accept no arguing about that FACT.
And I am sure if I had the time to investigate and fu** around, days and days to blame my otherwise perfectly working system instead of the fu**** up code that X1 is, were industry leading software solutions JUST WORK OUT OF THE BOX like expected, then I´d probably start a 10 page thread, trying to get bug repros and "USER HELP" whereas the only help that (perhaps) makes sense is the PATCH X1B fixing X1A, but hey, I tell you something: I don´t have time for that  anymore. 

IndustryStandard

trimph1

IndustryStandard


Sonar X1|HD which should include the HD 32 Core card and an HD Accel card, offering more than  32times the mixing and processing power of Pro Tools  systems, support for 64 channels of I/O*, Infinate Midi channels plus guaranteed support for up to 384 simultaneous audio tracks with no stress on the computer. Alternate Mac Versions are also available. Price available upon request...hey...I can dream can't I?

Hey, if you got to dream why not a HD64 card as well? Something that can handle up to 360 channels, infinite MIDI as well as 1,280 tracks!!....

Kool....I'm with 64 Core card. Let's not forget a 32 Tb hard drive included...with a front  door bay for interchangeable Hard drives.

stratman70


Makes perfect sense now.You're the man , your the best. Hooray for you 

jbow

trimph1

jbow

System Spec: CPU 2x X7560 Xeon 16-Core, 48 GIG Ram Kingston, Intel with Supermicro Workstation MP Boards, RME HDSPe, Radeon HD 5970

DAYUM......    That is a mean system

Me like!

JB

Great. Now I'm drooling...
 
 
Don't misunderstand (I am drolling too) that is in Supercomposer's line... that's some heft!
 
You know regarding this whole thing about the snarkiness etc... earlier I asked a simple question about going back and installing Guitar Rig LE. Bub tried to give me some help and I appreciate it. Some Czech or Slav guy tld me to "RTFM"... of course I had referenced the index in the manual before posting and "Guitar Rig" does not appear.. so I went through the manual, since I was told to read the freaking thing... of course, it isn't in there either.
No problem though, I decided to just plow into it and got it done.
The reason I asked in the first place is because I am pretty much an analog guy (59yo last week) really struggling with digital. but I won't give up. In the past I have gotten inspiritation and by the time I figured out how to do some pretty simple things the inspiriation was long gone... now I am semi (mostly) retired and have more time to put into it and... really, I don't expect to enounter many problems. I stil have Sonar 7 Producer if I need to use it for a while as bugs are worked out. I have more computing power now with W7 64 and i5... but if I need more power, i'll buy more. I intend to master the DAW, and I fully expect Sonar to do the job. I've mastered other things that I have not understood by just keeping at it. Sometimes that is what it takes BUT i've learned that in this arena... of the DAW.. if something isn't up to snuff in your hardware... you'll have problems that are really frustrating because somtimes you can't pin them down, all it takes is two components that have some problem playing nice and things just won't work right, not all the time.
 
Then again... I look at the post by Supercomposer, with that super system and I think crap* ... but I am a long ways from running anywhere near what he is running. If I get to that bridge I guess i'll have to either cross it or blow it. I expect Sonar to fix X1 and build something truly awesome on it. I am involved in another hobby that involves specialized electronics and equipment and new products almost always have bugs and they always have users that are not happy with new changes and don't take the time to learn anything new... however that does not seem in any way to be the case with the OP on this thread... I suspect D, that you have some components or other that are not playing well together with X1 and/or 64bit computing... I know very little about computer components but what I 'do' know about them is that they are finicky. There is some little fly in the ointment.
 
I hope you get it figured out. Did you say that you have tried using X1 and your 8.5 projects on another computer, if not... that would be my next step if you can get someone to let you try it on another machine powerful enough to run at least the basics. Then you'll know if it is X1 or your machine.
 
Forgive any missed letters or spaces this HP keyboard truly sucks. I have to type at half speed and it still misses... grrrr.
 
J

As a last resort I restored my system from an image I made from when I built my PC and installed Windows 7 x64 for the first time. Did all the Windows updates and installed X1. I haven't had a single crash since doing this and some of the oddball things that were happening stopped also.