Paul P


Personally, I don't mind waiting a minute or so for Windows/everything else to come back online after powering down due to inactivity. Why wear your equipment out doing nothing ?

My only problem waking up was with my Creative card often not coming back to life, but a recent driver update seems to have fixed that, so now my sytem can go to sleep and wake up no problem (my Mackie interface and the onboard sound never had problems).

If I were recording, I'd definitely keep the system going full blast.

 
 
A couple of things here...1st if your computer is set to turn things off at certain times that means the computer has an app running in the background while you are recording...which means less performance, higher latency.  Your computer runs smoother with without the power apps.
 
2nd...Powering up and down computer devices can wear out electronics faster than just keeping things powered up.