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Subject: SX?
Original Message Date: 26-Aug-02 @ 11:58 PM - SX?
i have an Athlon 1800XP with 512 of RAM and 2 7200rpm harddrives. i could get a handful of pluggins going, a soft synth or two, and the audio engine would get all dodgy - every time i bring up the mixer, it would slowly draw in one strip at a time while the audio stuttered. when i tried to save on the fly, it would stutter. so overall the performance during playback was pretty wank.
the redraw issues might have something to do with my dual-head Matrox Vid card, but regardless, this is a system where i had Logic 5 running perfectly smooth with over 20 plugs, some of which were Waves, and about 5 or 6 virtual synths (including Absynth!).
so, overall, i was not impressed. originally being of the frame of mind that i best start learning Cubase SX since Emagic has shacked up with Apple, i gave it a shot. but now im convinced that i can still get a good year out of Logic 5.2, barring no more PC updates, before i need to jump ship to either Mac, Cubase or even back to good ole Sonar.
am i the only one having these problems, or are other Cubase SX users banging their heads against their desks?
Message 11/26 06-Sep-02 @ 05:08 AM - RE: SX?
psylichon
Message 12/26 06-Sep-02 @ 05:36 AM - RE: SX?
)so..it 'will' run on 98, but not effectively and not nearly as smoothly as on XP
in fact...Id be willing to bet that would be part of his problem too...old OS combined with a underpowered system...
Message 13/26 06-Sep-02 @ 11:40 AM - RE: SX?
Seeing as XP is flavour of the month conversation at the moment.. go check out the other threads for info on it Dude 56
(And I can still hear influx sniggering at the back!)
:-)
Message 14/26 06-Sep-02 @ 02:14 PM - RE: SX?
I thought it was well clunky and rubbish compared to sonar or logic, a real pigs ear, it looks like a toy, and the screen clutter i thought was twice as bad as with vst although the buttons to open out the various mixer parts wasn't bad but screen handling was just as crap as on vst imo.... how do you find it?.. i wasnt impressed at all.
Message 15/26 06-Sep-02 @ 02:22 PM - RE: SX?
dunno guys, iīm staying with logic for now (and for later).
cheers, m.
Message 16/26 06-Sep-02 @ 02:48 PM - RE: SX?
Of couse i know its not up to spec, thats my point. What i meant is that if SX runs on such a minimal system as this, and runs really smooth and in fact better than vst5 on the same machine with the same song, then any of the problems you may be having must be your hardware (first post) The point being SX runs smoother than 5.1 (on win98)
I know its not designed for 98. the demo does intall on 98 though.
The vaio is just a scetchpad for the moment as im busy with other things.
Message 17/26 06-Sep-02 @ 04:07 PM Edit: 06-Sep-02 | 04:09 PM - RE: SX?
I'm probably being really thick here but I'm not quite sure what you mean. Having said that, I'm not great at explaining stuff and it'd probably make more sense to show you than try here..
Using window sets, and all the minimise section options (show/hide eq, wide narrow channel strips, show/hide midi channels, vsti channels, group channels etc..) screen clutter is not nearly as bad as you might think! But as I said, I'd have to show ya to convince ya! :-)
Being honest, it works just fine.. for me at any rate, and in the end run the result is what matters.. still, I can see how it'd put a lot of people off..
Marc_D
Message 18/26 06-Sep-02 @ 05:55 PM - RE: SX?
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Message 19/26 06-Sep-02 @ 10:00 PM - RE: SX?
Message 20/26 06-Sep-02 @ 10:23 PM - RE: SX?
download the demo and import a full on vst5 song (if you have one) and check it out.
cheers
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