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Subject: Hoonetch Value
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Original Message 1/12 28-Aug-03 @ 11:36 AM - Hoonetch Value
Dingo
Message 2/12 28-Aug-03 @ 11:40 AM - RE: Hoonetch Value
Message 3/12 28-Aug-03 @ 12:13 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
Yesterday we were doing a session, and had some pops all the time.. I thought "No!... we're not stressing the machine too much, how come.. etc"...
it turned out to be the CHORUS effect on the FX section of ALBINO which was playing a pad sound - oddly, as soon as we took the chorus OFF it worked fine.
Other times pops have been due to 'Too Fast' attack times on certain patches, or where notes have overlapped in pad-chord parts.. like one note doesnt end before the next (on the same note/key) starts.
Remember, your SBlive was operating at 750ms latency. All I know is, if I use SX or VST you can load it to the gills and never get an asio drop-out - Logic can drop-out even with the performance meter showing 60% even. But generaly pops & crackles which happen when Logic is NOT very stressed are not due to the card, but some plugin playing up. If however, it's cracking etc when running almost nothing, then somethings up.. But if it STARTED doing it all of a sudden then something has changed to make that happen most likely.
Personaly I'm thinking to swap to SX or SONAR... another reason being that SX & SONAR do all their rendering offline, whereas Logic requires that as it renders it plays back the audio in realtime thru the card which completely defeats the object of rendering !
the other thing is, when you first build a new pc everything is jiggy, but give it time to chock-up and the machine gets less efficient.
when I built this 2 ghz athlon, it ran a huge roster of fx & synths, now it's been working and the drives are getting fuller & more s/w has been installed, it's less efficient and runs less objects.
have you checked the SERVICE menu at http://www.staudio.com
??
there is many tips there.
Message 4/12 28-Aug-03 @ 12:27 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
Message 6/12 29-Aug-03 @ 11:31 AM - RE: Hoonetch Value
Message 7/12 29-Aug-03 @ 11:47 AM - RE: Hoonetch Value
Dingo
Message 8/12 29-Aug-03 @ 12:41 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
Message 9/12 29-Aug-03 @ 12:56 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
It's athlon innit?
I tell you what, the athlon 2400 I built for a client 4 weeks ago is alot more powerful than my 2ghz machine
The 2400 runs at 2000mhz, the 2ghz I own runs at 1667mhz, also the 2400 has a higher bus speed
anyways it has alot more headroom.
I'm prolly going to upgrade my board chip & ram to a Barton capable board like his and sling in the same chip cos they are cheap right now
Message 10/12 29-Aug-03 @ 02:57 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
my spec is biostar board, 1700 Athlon and 384meg DDR
Dingo
Message 11/12 29-Aug-03 @ 06:19 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
if before you had SBLive running MME drivers then they are
1. windows core drivers
2. huge latency of 750ms so dropouts are rare on big mixes
Go to asio at 5ms latency and that's a whole different ballgame for the same size of stress on the pc which the SBLive would run fine.
As I said, the difference between my 2ghz and the guys 2400 is alot, but an older 1700 athlon with less than 512 of slower ram would have problems running big mixes for sure unless buffers are well up high.
Message 12/12 31-Aug-03 @ 08:24 PM - RE: Hoonetch Value
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