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Posted by Hobson on Sep-27-2009 17:02:

What's slowing me down?

Hi guys,

Recently I've been having problems with my pc performance whilst working on a project. It's causing the busiest parts of the track to be nearly inaudible as the audio lags and distorts. I have tried upgrading my memory but this hasn't made much difference. I am using Cubase SX3 and the VSTs that are using the most CPU in the project are Omnisphere and Vanguard. Below are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800 2.51 GHz processor
4 GB Corsair XMS2 DHX 6400C4 DDR2 memory
Asus M2N SLI-Deluxe motherboard
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics card
160 GB Seagate Maxtor STM3160215AS 7200 RPM C drive (internal)
120 GB Seagate ST3120827AS 7200 RPM D drive (internal)
500 GB Seagate FreeAgent 7200 RPM F drive (external)
Windows XP Home

Does anyone have any ideas as to what needs upgrading the most?

Thanks in advance,

Phil

Posted by Zak McKracken on Sep-27-2009 17:06:

think id upgrade the soundcard.

Posted by Beatflux on Sep-27-2009 17:08:

Did you pirate Cubase?

Posted by Kysora on Sep-27-2009 17:49:

I was about to suggest more RAM but 4 gigs is more than enough.

No clue what could be causing it. My projects do the exact same thing, I've learned to work through it.

Posted by itsamemario on Sep-27-2009 17:57:

have you tried adjusting the buffersize on the soundcard?

Posted by Waza on Sep-27-2009 18:00:

how many instances of omnisphere have you running i've heard thats' very cpu demanding.

Posted by Subtle on Sep-27-2009 18:05:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_alfi
have you tried adjusting the buffersize on the soundcard?
This, and how many patches on Omnisphere are u running ?

Posted by Morvan on Sep-27-2009 18:13:

CPU maxed out? Sputtering? Freezing? Read here!

Posted by Hobson on Sep-27-2009 18:35:

i have tried increasing the buffer size to no avail, and i am using one instance of omnisphere with a single patch loaded (not a multi)

thanks for the link Morvan, some helpful info in there

Posted by Hobson on Sep-27-2009 18:40:

i tried bouncing some parts to audio but for some reason i'm getting a very noticeable click at the end of the file - any idea what's causing this?

Posted by winston on Sep-27-2009 19:20:

Re: What's slowing me down?

quote:
Originally posted by Hobson
Hi guys,

Recently I've been having problems with my pc performance whilst working on a project. It's causing the busiest parts of the track to be nearly inaudible as the audio lags and distorts. I have tried upgrading my memory but this hasn't made much difference. I am using Cubase SX3 and the VSTs that are using the most CPU in the project are Omnisphere and Vanguard. Below are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800 2.51 GHz processor
4 GB Corsair XMS2 DHX 6400C4 DDR2 memory
Asus M2N SLI-Deluxe motherboard
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics card
160 GB Seagate Maxtor STM3160215AS 7200 RPM C drive (internal)
120 GB Seagate ST3120827AS 7200 RPM D drive (internal)
500 GB Seagate FreeAgent 7200 RPM F drive (external)
Windows XP Home

Does anyone have any ideas as to what needs upgrading the most?

Thanks in advance,

Phil

more RAM and two hard drives if it's in your budget. or make one yourself (clone). Or get yourself a Corsair XMS2

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1046/corsair_xms2_dominator_pc2_10000_world_s_fastest_ram/index.html

I'd say you should buy yourself a new computer. Or you should at least have two computers, one for work, one for play.

good luck

Posted by Subtle on Sep-27-2009 19:27:

More RAM will not do any good considering XP only utilizes about 3,5 GBs max, and even if it did Cubase only adresses something like around 2 GB.

Posted by aLviNx80 on Sep-28-2009 07:46:

Re: Re: What's slowing me down?

quote:
I'd say you should buy yourself a new computer. Or you should at least have two computers, one for work, one for play.

good luck

no

quote:
Originally posted by djpalm
think id upgrade the soundcard.

quote:
Originally posted by dj_alfi
have you tried adjusting the buffersize on the soundcard?

agree

Posted by Sonic_c on Sep-28-2009 08:29:

I have win xp and cubase sx3 and i was complaining about same probelm recently. I improved performance by removing windows service pack 3 it had all kind of crap that runs in the memory that you dont need.

Posted by DJ RANN on Sep-28-2009 12:58:

soundcard first without question - it's an absolute peice of shit and the drivers are even worse.

SP3 does lag a bit but not that much and not for the problems you're describing as your PC is more than powerful enough for decent DAW use.

Has anyone else noticed what Winston posts?

I've only seen three posts by him and all of them are utter turd.

Hmmmm..Alt me thinks?

Posted by Subtle on Sep-28-2009 13:05:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
Hmmmm..Alt me thinks?
2005

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-28-2009 14:36:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
Has anyone else noticed what Winston posts?

I've only seen three posts by him and all of them are utter turd.

Hmmmm..Alt me thinks?

Not an alt, he just normally posts in the Chill Out Room.

Posted by Zak McKracken on Sep-28-2009 16:06:

Re: Re: What's slowing me down?

quote:
Originally posted by winston
more RAM and two hard drives if it's in your budget. or make one yourself (clone). Or get yourself a Corsair XMS2

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/10..._ram/index.html

I'd say you should buy yourself a new computer. Or you should at least have two computers, one for work, one for play.

good luck

do your really think a second harddrive will solve his problems ? lol

Posted by DJ RANN on Sep-28-2009 16:14:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Not an alt, he just normally posts in the Chill Out Room.

Got it. I wondered how he was a supreme TA and knew nothing about the subject matter in hand.

Posted by Sonic_c on Sep-28-2009 16:38:

I been here a while but never asked what an alt is? what is an alt?

Posted by Zak McKracken on Sep-28-2009 18:16:

ALTernative account? i dont know just guessing. i have three.

Posted by Lucidity on Sep-29-2009 02:35:

If u don't have the money for a better sound card, then look for and download -asio4all its free, and will help with latency issues.

Posted by Bayou Boy on Sep-29-2009 03:21:

quote:
Originally posted by Hobson
i tried bouncing some parts to audio but for some reason i'm getting a very noticeable click at the end of the file - any idea what's causing this?

When you render the file make sure you leave some room at the end of the loop. If the loop goes on for 4 bars set the loop marker to 5 bars.

Posted by KilldaDJ on Sep-29-2009 06:19:

perhaps render some long cpu demanding synths to wav and use them them like that, tbh its probably because you've stacked a bunch of beefy synths together and they are raping your cpu.

alternatively downsample and work with the song in 22050hz then export it as 44100hz (this will make the final result sound different)

Posted by Magnus on Sep-30-2009 03:55:

I would highly suggest you use a modified version of XP such as the popular Windows XP Performance Edition or the super leaned down DAW edition. You can find either of these by Googling. They have all the nonsense ripped out. I have used both and have had no issues. These are made to get you the best performance out of your PC. Granted I used these on dedicated production boxes so a lot of what was ripped out I never needed or would have used. If you use your production box for all your other computing needs, these versions might not be for you.

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