Hello,
First off I wasn't sure whether I should post this here or in "MIDI Mania," so if I got it wrong, please move it to the proper category and I'm sorry about that.
Alright, so for years I have had trouble with determining what's wrong and what I should do as far as this goes.
I work with a lot of real instruments (drums, guitar, bass, etc) but am mainly a composer and work with MIDI using VST instruments. I am able to add about 50 tracks before the computer can't handle it anymore.
The thing is, usually my RAM/Physical Memory will get to around 70% and it will glitch by crackling and stopping and starting while recording or listening back. I've noticed that more ram helped it, but not much (I went from 8GB to 12GB).
I currently use asio4all because it has the least latency. However, when my project gets pretty full (like I said, around 50 tracks), it will start glitching until I higher that latency.
The problem is I'm not sure if having an audio interface or sound card would help out a lot. I have no sound card or anything except for what is in the computer.
Computer specs if needed:
Motherboard: Gigabyte ga-x58a-ud3r
Processor: Intel Core i7
Ram: 12 GB (soon upgrading to 16GB)
I hope I didn't make this too confusing.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I also meant to mention that I use Ableton. Although I have had this problem in Cubase before too.
First off I wasn't sure whether I should post this here or in "MIDI Mania," so if I got it wrong, please move it to the proper category and I'm sorry about that.
Alright, so for years I have had trouble with determining what's wrong and what I should do as far as this goes.
I work with a lot of real instruments (drums, guitar, bass, etc) but am mainly a composer and work with MIDI using VST instruments. I am able to add about 50 tracks before the computer can't handle it anymore.
The thing is, usually my RAM/Physical Memory will get to around 70% and it will glitch by crackling and stopping and starting while recording or listening back. I've noticed that more ram helped it, but not much (I went from 8GB to 12GB).
I currently use asio4all because it has the least latency. However, when my project gets pretty full (like I said, around 50 tracks), it will start glitching until I higher that latency.
The problem is I'm not sure if having an audio interface or sound card would help out a lot. I have no sound card or anything except for what is in the computer.
Computer specs if needed:
Motherboard: Gigabyte ga-x58a-ud3r
Processor: Intel Core i7
Ram: 12 GB (soon upgrading to 16GB)
I hope I didn't make this too confusing.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I also meant to mention that I use Ableton. Although I have had this problem in Cubase before too.