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all these tips indicate the downside of running software synths..but in any case you would have to spend loads of cash anyway for HD synths...I've been running a crappy PIII 500(celeron too) for years and I haven't had any major issues with concerns to audio...but hey now its just about toast and I just got me a Athlon Xp 3200 so who am i to talk.
A really good HD is just about all I need to keep me in the groove. |
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| UphoricNitemare |
| You all must be incredibly rich or something. I'm in the process of building a computer with ABIT NF7-S v2 for under 500$. And I think that will hold up just fine. |
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| EliPsE |
ya there is no need to go overboard like that, another tip(dont use all soft synths) that eat the out of your cpu
my p4 3ghz 1gb ram has been suiting me well for audio recording and the fer plugins i use. |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
| vizay i think its the other way around on the ecc ram becuase i know when i first started researching the fx 53 939 everywhere i went said it required registerd ecc ram. where as with the operatron it appears they only highly reccommend it but some mobos require it. haha and i know you were mistaken im just a quite often which leads people to think im not knowlgeable(sp) but in reality im somewhat. in some areas more then others but ohh well. ohh and btw dropping 4grand on a computer is worth it imo. considering the fact that my box can rip and encode video and then burn it all to dvd. plus the fact that i can run enormous amount of softsynths. and my hard drives have little to no seek time due to the 0+1 raid and the fact its sata however i wish i would of bought 10k rpm drives instead of 7200. but 16mb of cache kinda makes up for that. |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
| ohh yeah and theres been high quality ram for quite a while. just harder to find and way more expensive. micron i know for a fact has been recommended by amd for over 5 years and same with corsair. they are the best quality ram manfactures around. another issue tho you need to worry about with ram is making sure if they arent the same speed of ram sticks that you have them placed in your motherboard correctly. |
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| Dj Yoel Culiner |
Lets say it like this...
Will a
AMD ATHLON 64 3200+
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Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI nVIDIA nForce4 SLI Socket 939
Suit me well. With no sound interuptions and all that . So i can Load many variuos VST's at the same time with out having sound problems.
And would it be good enough for producing for at least the next two years?
By the way. Is it nessary to buy a Sound card? Will it help with the smoothness or whatever? Is the "EMU 1212M" good enough? |
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| Vizay |
devil: well again about the ECC memories, I'm 100% shure that you don't need them for the FX platforms. When it comes to computers, processors and overclocking and that kind of stuff I'm kind of a really big (maybe even a bit geeky) enthusiast ;)
I hang out on various forums dedicated to that kind of hobby and I've seen over 30 persons wich are runnning s939 FX processors without ECC ram ;)
uphoric: well I'm shure that it'll do good for you but we all have different demands ;)
If I bought that kind of system I'd probably regret it after two months, sell it and upgrade again :p
today the software synths have basicly caught up with the hardware synths so imo. there's no way you can spend to much on a computer ;)
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devil I did some reading on the subject regarding ECC memories and now I know how it is! :)
From the beginning the FX processors only shipped for the socket 940 system. The socket 940 will always demand ECC memories.
Now latley though the FX processors have started to ship for the socket 939 platform and will therefore NOT need ECC memories :) |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
| i dont know about two years but definatly for a year or so. but really like i said if your going to drop the cash you might aswell make it worth it. about the emu cards i have no clue only soundcards ive ever used besides the creative ones are m-audio and in that case only m-audio ive ever used is the dc1010. but yes itd not be a bad system for a year or so. just when youg et into the operatron systems and fx systems you get alot more math crunching power. |
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| Derivative |
| quote: | Lets say it like this...
Will a
AMD ATHLON 64 3200+
and a
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI nVIDIA nForce4 SLI Socket 939
Suit me well. With no sound interuptions and all that . So i can Load many variuos VST's at the same time with out having sound problems.
And would it be good enough for producing for at least the next two years?
By the way. Is it nessary to buy a Sound card? Will it help with the smoothness or whatever? Is the "EMU 1212M" good enough? |
well you will be able to run alot more softies simultaneously than i can but ultimately it boils down to working practice. if you just run everything realtime you are, sooner or later you are going to hit 100% cpu load. its inevitable if you work exclusively like this. i hit 100% cpu load after 2 vanguard pads. so when the cpu load gets high, i bounce everything down. cut them up into wav loops. reassemble in a new file with 0% cpu load and continue from there on. as such, you dont need an immensely fast PC to write good, complex tunes although it undoubtedly saves you some time have to bounce and chop and it undoubtedly makes the music making process more fun the less you get contrained by CPU load.
as for the dream PCs that are in this thread - go for it if you have the cash, the knowledge and the experience and expertise with PC components to build an absolute softy running monster. unfortuneatly im not so well up on PCs and im skint as you like. my trusty 1.6 ghz p4 continues to serve me adequately ;) |
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| Dj Yoel Culiner |
| About the sound card... Do I have to Buy one for producing smoothly? |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
| that explains it vizzay, becuase when i first looked into it i was told to get ecc only but i guess it was kinda pointless. hoever i dont mind the quality. derrivitive you ahve a complete point as i produce alot of tracks on an old compaq armada m300 laptop which has a p2 333mhz 128mb of ram and a 7gig hard drive. and i can do somewhat complex tracks aslong as i bounce everything to wave. which sometimes i do enjoy alot just trying to do the automation and such when bouncing makes it somewhat of a pain which is why i mostly do it with tracks that im not going to do alot fo knob tweaking automation. |
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| Dj Yoel Culiner |
Devil:
Is it that all producers convert to wav?
Cause that is the kind of thing that I'm tryng to avoid... |
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