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Originally posted by digitalifeform I have a AMD 64 3000+ , 1Gig Ram, 80gig 7200RPM HD, and a EMU 0404 sound card.... I use cubase sx 2.0, with vsts like z3ta, vanguard, v-station, triangle II After working on a trance project for a bit (maybe after inserting 9 to 10 vst instruments into the project)... the sound start lagging baddly as if im using my grandfathers 16bit ISA sound card to produce... It says under VST performance CPU at 80 to 100 percent ... which obviously is the problem.... but what is the solution... Is it really the CPU speed? More Ram? Better Sound card? can anyone help me so production gets laggless for me... Thanks

sorry i dont understand this problem fully?

you have like one of the newest CPU's out a 64 bit 3000+, they are supposed to be good but it really depends on how well it works with your computers components. some cpu's work good for games and some only work well for applications.
tell me is the sound card onboard?

are you using windows xp 32 bit, if so try windows xp 64 bit. it runs faster and your cpu supports it.

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Originally posted by mzvirbulis are you using windows xp 32 bit, if so try windows xp 64 bit. it runs faster and your cpu supports it.

are you nuts? there are not 64bit drivers for lots of hardware, and especially not for the emu soundcard. i wouldn't get win64 for some more time because of the drivers.

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Originally posted by Magnus Yes the problem lies with your CPU's power. It can't hang. I had the same problem until I bought a P4 Hyper-Threading proc (Basically a dual CPU). The bastard is a workhorse now. In the meantime, Cubase 2 has built-in freeze capability. Just hit F11 to bring up your VSTi menu and you will see next to the VSTi's name, for example Vanguard, there will be a little snowflake icon. Hit that, and Cubase will freeze the entire track. The track will gray out and you won't be able to do anything to it until you unfreeze the track.

you are suggesting that athon64 3000+ is too slow for music? that is simply not true (i could have used some harsher words, but decided not to). i am sure that if that guy get a p4 ht cpu and adequate motherboard and spends a lot of cash for it he will be very disappointed in performance gain. i have an ahtlon64 2800+ on socket754 with an emu1212 and it works great even with 11 synths, so cpu power is definitely not an issue here.

it really doesn't matter if you get a new cpu, in a month your gonna say now instead of running 10 vsts i want to run 12.

just do what subtle said and export to audio