However, many musicians face the opposite dilemma: they have a PC that has problems running some songs and are not sure whether they need to upgrade their soundcard, install more RAM, buy a faster processor or get a larger, faster drive to resolve them.Īs you can see from the SOS Forum survey results in the box on page 70, there's no such thing as a typical song, so if you're in the situation described above you need to do a little detective work to find out what's causing the problems in your particular case. In my PC Musician feature of SOS June 2003, I explained how the various PC resources (CPU, RAM and hard drive) are used up by audio tracks, soft synths, soft samplers and so on, to help PC users decide on the spec that would meet their needs when buying or building a new model. But how do you know which is to blame, and do you have to upgrade or can you work around the problem? There are many factors that can cause your PC to struggle when playing back your songs – including RAM, your hard drive, your CPU and your system settings. If anyone can help me and shed some light on this subject I would be eternally greatful.You don't need to make 'guesstimates' about how much of your system RAM is being used in total by all your currently running applications - just use a freeware utility such as Cacheman, shown here. I have read other threads on GS.com aswell as that relate to this problem but they seem to be more to do with CPU usage, defragging or RAM problems but in my case I believe it could be something to do with the software. Could this be faulty RAM? I have tried pushing my soundcard buffer to the top but no change. CPU would be averaging about 70% but now I try to work on something and it overloads almost straight away. Now if I was running a poor system I would expect my computer to sketch out but prior to the problem arising I didn't have any trouble running this size of project whatsoever. All in all, probably looking at about 30 tracks give or take with plug-ins on each channel. Usually my projects consist of around about 15 Audio Tracks with 2-4 plugs on each channel (or routed through to Group Buss), 4-6 Midi Instruments like Kontakt, a couple of instances of Massive, maybe an FM8 or something and these will again normally have 2-4 plugins on each Midi Instrument channel. Meanwhile the disk meter carries on flashing away going mental even when I hit stop! I used the Powercore effects on a few projects pre-disk overload problem and it seemed to be fine but now everytime I open up an old project (which worked fine before) or new and hit play the disk meter spikes causing the red LED to light up and playback to become out of sync, intermittent and glitchy. OS is Windows XP home which as I understand it, will only utilize 2Gb Ram or thereabouts but the thing is the problem has only recently cropped up and worked perfectly up until about a week after installing the Powercore. I am running a Quad Core Intel 2.6Ghz with 2Gb Ram, M-Audio Firewire soundcard, Cubase 4.5.2, a TC Powercore Compact with NI and Waves instruments & plugs. I am currently experiencing some problems with the disk overload meter when I hit play in Cubase and cannot for the life of me work it out.
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