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| Welcome2Trance |
| Im using FL6. Last time I bought P4 3ghz 1g ddramII (with graphic and sound cards built in) and when I kick off any of demo projects eg. 'Blake - Hanging On' my PC has got serious problems with it. When I plug in more than 3 v-stations + z3ta it is about to blow up. Is it because of my non external sound card or maybe some wrong BIOS settings or motherbnoard's ? What should I do? buy more RAM or what else? |
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| BOOsTER |
buy a "SOUNDCARD"
not an integrated junk |
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| deceptikon |
| Btw all the integrated on your motherboard will be sapping a: cpu pwoer and b: system memory. By standalone parts or prepare to face the latency of DOOM. |
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| substorm |
Yea, get a new soundcard!
But why do you have 3 v-stations and 1 z3ta running at the same time? Have a hard time choosing sound or what? Otherwise its smarter to convert the Midi tracks you are saticfied with to Audio. Makes life a little more easier!
I run 2 vst at the same time tops, if a where to layer some sounds. But lest say i have made a track with like 25 channels and then have 3 - v-stations running, i wouldnt enjoy producing!
Cheers
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| SMC |
| quote: | Originally posted by substorm
Yea, get a new soundcard!
But why do you have 3 v-stations and 1 z3ta running at the same time? Have a hard time choosing sound or what? Otherwise its smarter to convert the Midi tracks you are saticfied with to Audio. Makes life a little more easier!
I run 2 vst at the same time tops, if a where to layer some sounds. But lest say i have made a track with like 25 channels and then have 3 - v-stations running, i wouldnt enjoy producing!
Cheers
C |
But it's a pain in the ass having to bounce a track everytime you change something or want to do a tweak. I run as many plugins as possible as long as they don't cause an annoying amount of underruns. :) |
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| substorm |
| quote: | Originally posted by SMC
But it's a pain in the ass having to bounce a track everytime you change something or want to do a tweak. I run as many plugins as possible as long as they don't cause an annoying amount of underruns. :) |
Hmm, well i guess it depends a bit on what kind of sequencer you use to! I easy to bounce back and forward with Live.
I used to do this as well, but now i take one sound at a time! |
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| SMC |
| quote: | Originally posted by substorm
Hmm, well i guess it depends a bit on what kind of sequencer you use to! I easy to bounce back and forward with Live.
I used to do this as well, but now i take one sound at a time! |
I work with FLS. I like to have instant access to everything in my projects. |
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| jey |
| them vst's are cpu hoggs!! not to mention plugins if u added them, a good soundcard will help but one z3ta+ punched to its max prob would clip your systems cpu! |
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| substorm |
| quote: | Originally posted by jey
them vst's are cpu hoggs!! not to mention plugins if u added them, a good soundcard will help but one z3ta+ punched to its max prob would clip your systems cpu! |
My point +1 |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by BOOsTER
buy a "SOUNDCARD"
not an integrated junk |
+1000
i need to get a new one myself...
i used to use an audigy and it worked rather well since it was for a laptop system, but now i think i'm going to break down and get an m-audio audiophile. it's got enough outs to plug in my production monitors as well as my bass and surround sound. plus midi in and out. i just wish it recorded above 96khz
also optimize your windows system settings for performance, close all other apps except FL when producing, and always check for spyware and viruses with adaware and spybot |
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| kitphillips |
yeah good question, why do you have 3 vstations and one zeta? You should have more z3ta, it sounds better:) Seriously tho, I've completely crashed my PC by trying to load some sounds in z3ta into a slighty crowded session, it can be a real hog, I recomend fm8 for really good sounds at very low cpu (like about 4% on my machine)
Hey substorm, I'm curious about how you bounce in live, I'm getting really bad dropouts and stuff (mainly due to akoustic piano... bloody samplers :( ) Do you just lay the bit to be bounced out on the arranger view then solo it and do the normal render or whatever on the file menu? Or is there an easier way? I just find that really awkward, I wish you could just right click on any clip and hit bounce and then not worry about reimporting it or anything... Oh I'm using live 5 btw, is there an easier way in 6? |
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| BOOsTER |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
yeah good question, why do you have 3 vstations and one zeta? You should have more z3ta, it sounds better:) Seriously tho, I've completely crashed my PC by trying to load some sounds in z3ta into a slighty crowded session, it can be a real hog, I recomend fm8 for really good sounds at very low cpu (like about 4% on my machine)
Hey substorm, I'm curious about how you bounce in live, I'm getting really bad dropouts and stuff (mainly due to akoustic piano... bloody samplers :( ) Do you just lay the bit to be bounced out on the arranger view then solo it and do the normal render or whatever on the file menu? Or is there an easier way? I just find that really awkward, I wish you could just right click on any clip and hit bounce and then not worry about reimporting it or anything... Oh I'm using live 5 btw, is there an easier way in 6? |
I believe freezing is in 5 too...just right-click the track you want to "bounce" and choose freeze....
in 6 this freezing feature works much better, though...
actually in 6 you can even flatten a midi track to audio with a few clicks..."frozen" tracks can be pasted and copied etc... |
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