A little game: How fast is your startup?

[Numanoid]

How long does it take from you turn on the computer (cold start) until you have opened your DAW and can play with it?

It took 31 seconds from pushing the start button on the PC until I had loaded Sawer in FL Studio 12, and could play with it.

Even if it was hardware synth, I think that is pretty quick

How fast are you?

[Zombie Queen]

Hard to tell as my computer box is in another room (than i/o devices). When I get to the chair, it's on.

[ZentralmassivSound]

My start up is awefully slow. Takes minutes. No SSD. Well, but once it's booted it works ok.

[glokraw]

Small linux on old small ssd is quite fast. Reboot around 4 seconds.
Boots between 15/20 seconds, and depending how fast I type the password,
a few seconds to start jackd, and command reaper in a terminal
from bash_history up-arrow tapping, few more seconds to choose and load a vst,
so 30-40 seconds, in normal mode. amd dual core 1900ghz.

[Numanoid]

A little bit faster today, 29 seconds from cold start until I had Sytrus up in FL Studio 12

[chaosWyrM]

its slow...very slow, but thats by design. i have it set to run a series of scans on start up.

technically, boot up time is just over a minute...but its not usable for...im not sure, several minutes...i wake up, i turn it on...go make a cup of coffee...change my daughters diaper, make her a bottle or a bowl of cereal...by the time im ready to sit down, the computer is ready to be used.

[Numanoid]

Thinking back to the 80's, the Commodore 64 was on immediatly when switching the power button.

But there was nothing I could do with it, except writing Basic. To load a program would take ages, 5 minutes, 10 minutes.

So I think the immediacy of the old computers back in the day in that regard, is a bit overrated.

[chaosWyrM]

Thinking back to the 80's, the Commodore 64 was on immediatly when switching the power button.

But there was nothing I could do with it, except writing Basic. To load a program would take ages, 5 minutes, 10 minutes.

So I think the immediacy of the old computers back in the day in that regard, is a bit overrated.

ha! yeah, i remember playing games that loaded from a cassette player.

[Zombie Queen]

To load a program would take ages, 5 minutes, 10 minutes.

These times are back. Recently, my kids installed a game which takes about 5 minutes to start... The 80s are coming.

[legendCNCD]

10 seconds after BIOS has done its shit, I'm in Win7, and it takes ~5-7 seconds for Live9 to be open. 6core with ssd

[Numanoid]

So you got it primed and ready in less than 20 seconds, that is awesome

How much RAM does your system have?

[nickamandote]

about 20 seconds, SSD, 8 GB RAM

[Numanoid]

Compared to turning on a hardware synth, I reckon 20 seconds is faster than them?

[legendCNCD]

Numanoid: 16GB which is normal these days (you can leave games on the background by accident and track tunes .. then "where does that sound come from periodically" and find out it was some game on the background hah)

Also I have e-Penis uptime of over 220 days with this machine until I took it offline for backups

[stardustmedia]

I have to measure it, but from my feeling it's way below 30 seconds.

iMac 16GB with Mavericks and fusion drive. But only if there are no hard drives or sticks connected via USB. With USB hard drives it takes longer. That's why I turn them on, or plug them in after starting up.