StarTekh


Skarda: what your system specks >? guylemec: do you need help in the bios/speedstep>?

 

I have an I7, 950 3.07 ghz win 7 64 bit, 12 gig ram, soild state hard drive. it has some pretty good horse power. After reading the above, i went into my bios and disabled speedstep. will test later... hope this helps. but it does not seem like my pc should need such help

You REALLY need to check your system DPC latency with one of the tools mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Honestly, it's the first place to start.

Silicon Audio


You REALLY need to check your system DPC latency with one of the tools mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Honestly, it's the first place to start.

+1 (and try disabling video adapter and apci compliant battery control if on laptop and wifi card no matter what).

guylemec

Since I run on a dual core, I had this checked. I consulted the Help to see what this option was actually giving me and decided it would not hurt to uncheck it and see if it made any difference.
The immediately visible effect was that my pretty 8-column CPU display in Sonar was now a single monlithic block... but it was stable, not constantly murmuring and popping all 8 columns into the red from time to time.
Since then, touch wood, my crackles and pops have ceased and I cautiously look forward to happier times. 

Thanks helped me....
 
meh

StarTekh


guylemec: do you need help in the bios/speedstep>?

Like I said, I'm very ginger about going to that level, especially as all seems ok at the moment, but if you can help with simple idiot-proof explanations/instructions - and I really mean idiot-proof - I would of course be interested in anything that can make it even better. Thanks, StarTekh.

FreeFlyBertl


 - set processor scheduling to programs not background (which is what all audio tuning guides tell you), but Cake says not (http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=1239881)
 - really high end machines might be better off changing the ThreadSchedulingModel setting in the AUD.INI (http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2095428) 

Thanks, FFB.
I've set it to Programs now.
Changing the ini file setting didn't seem to give any benefit but I reckon mine is not a high-end machine anyway.
I feel happier to leave it at the default.

Looks you have firewire audio interfaces? Could be the firewire controller on your mother board. I've seen time and time again people having problems with motherboard firewire controllers and seen this first hand on my friends pc. He had a much newer i7 machine then  me listed in my specs but performance for me was much better. I installed a Ti chipset firewire card in his pc and the problems went away.

Sorry if this has been mentioned. I always just skim through threads and sometimes repeat things other people have said.

But anyways, if you are using the motherboard firewire, or even a non Ti firewire card, you may want to replace it with a Ti chipset card to see if performance improves. Think I paid like $50 or somehting.

Skarda


I have an I7, 950 3.07 ghz win 7 64 bit, 12 gig ram, soild state hard drive. it has some pretty good horse power. After reading the above, i went into my bios and disabled speedstep. will test later... hope this helps. but it does not seem like my pc should need such help

Is the SSD your only hard drive?

Firewire,and Windows 7,are not the best of friends these days,so someone told me recently,sorry this doesn't help,but also Focusrite stuff needs always the latest drivers possible,but again this only something Iv'e been told[same person].
Bob