I installed Tracktion as sequencer to my notebook with Echo Layla 24 (+PCMCIA Card). It is really nice sequencer
I use it for my music with outer sound modules.Later I added several VST Instruments I like very much (Yellow Culture, all Moogs, BFD Drums, Atmosphere etc.) + Firewire fast HDD (7200 rpm) to increase speed of streams within system.
WHAT A DISAPOINTMENT NOW.
When I open BFD (Drums plug In) or Moog or any virtual instrument, together with sound I hear cracks, clicks and such garbage
. For example cymbals and snare are clean, but tom or kick drum sound like overloaded (all my meters in system show at least 4-8 db bellow zero, it means it is no digital distortion).I am under impression that system cannot swollow complex samples (wave) very well and some artefacts come out.
Again, CPU usage is shown below 10%.
Notebook is Pentium 4 1800 MHz with 768 MB Ram + Maxtor Firewire HDD. It works flawless on all other applications, but when I started with sampled sounds and VST instruments I was killed with horrible results
.ANY REAL LIFE OPINION
Also, should I forget notebook for such tasks and just do it in all new faster and memory richer + 15000 rpm HDD PC ?
I feel that problem lies in tuning of notebook, but I have no idea what to do, as well as, that maybe PCMCIA Card can cause something bad, too?
I understand that above has nothing with Tracktion, but this is forum I appreciate very much
and Tracktion indeed replaced Cubase on my system (hopefully forever).Confused.
Thanks for your support.
RP