Hi, I have been contemplating a home studio for a long time now, and have been intrigued by the simplicity of tracktion, In the past my home recording has all been "live" out from the PA mixer, the results are okay, check out shaker green on dmusic.com, anyway, I have ordered a RME fireface 800, and have a Compaq X1010CA notebook, which is Pentium M 1.4Ghz w/512 ram, 60 gig harddrive,,
I have downloaded the demo version of tracktion, but have noticed some stutter just with the Demo tunes,
is this my laptops built in sound processors limits, and will useing the firface 800 eliminate this? BTW the company I'm getting the Fireface from is also supplying with it Samplitude 6 pro, (package deal) Its Way more than what I want, at least for now, I prefer tracktions simplicity.
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 5 Aug, 2004
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- KVRian
- 665 posts since 7 Jan, 2003 from somewhere between 50 and 60Hz
when i first downloaded the tracktion demo, i also noticed that the demo tunes stuttered... never fear, it won't stop you making tunes. These demos just use ALOT of reverb and delays on most channels which are notorious for eating up CPU on even fast computer.
normally you wouldn't use reverb like this - you would you reverb "sends" so less instances of the reverb were used. Also, the tracktion inbuilt reverb isn't too CPU friendly. I use WaveArts MasterVerb which is really CPU friendly.
in tracktion you can also "freeze" tracks to save CPU, or render to disk and insert WAVs to free up more CPU
so... your current computer and setup is more than capable of making tracks in tracktion, it's just the demos have heaps and heaps of Tracktion reverb used in them
normally you wouldn't use reverb like this - you would you reverb "sends" so less instances of the reverb were used. Also, the tracktion inbuilt reverb isn't too CPU friendly. I use WaveArts MasterVerb which is really CPU friendly.
in tracktion you can also "freeze" tracks to save CPU, or render to disk and insert WAVs to free up more CPU
so... your current computer and setup is more than capable of making tracks in tracktion, it's just the demos have heaps and heaps of Tracktion reverb used in them
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- KVRAF
- 4644 posts since 28 Nov, 2002 from Chicago
also a few of the plugs used in the demo tunes cause denormalisation problems on some P4 CPUs.
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- KVRian
- 665 posts since 7 Jan, 2003 from somewhere between 50 and 60Hz
aha! that would be my problem too (i'm running P4). so my comments about Tracktion plugs being CPU heavy could be unwarranted (except for P4 users)valley wrote:also a few of the plugs used in the demo tunes cause denormalisation problems on some P4 CPUs.
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- KVRAF
- 4644 posts since 28 Nov, 2002 from Chicago
whilst helpful, the add noise function can only do so much; delays are likely to to still denormalize regardless of that setting.
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- KVRist
- 34 posts since 7 Dec, 2003
Ok, thanks!valley wrote:whilst helpful, the add noise function can only do so much; delays are likely to to still denormalize regardless of that setting.
I was not aware of that, i have had 0 problems though
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- KVRist
- 180 posts since 30 Jun, 2004
If you're using your new laptop "fresh out of the box" it will have a loft of Microsoft crap services running which eat up your CPU. Like nearly everything else musical, you will need to tune your XP installation to get the best results.
Go here for tips on how to tune Windows XP for music. Also check out The Elder Geek Services Guide.
Go here for tips on how to tune Windows XP for music. Also check out The Elder Geek Services Guide.