win 95/200mhz

[Slackmaster2K]

You won't be limited by software with that machine, you'll be limited by hardware. A P200 can probably handle a little bit of stuff...

Two very important things: a) How much memory do you have and b) how fast is your hard drive? c) Do you have busmastering IDE drivers (allowing you to run drives in DMA mode as opposed to PIO).

That last one's kinda nasty, but get back to us with the firt two right off and we can help ya more.

If you wanna get started right away, go download n-Track from www.fasoft.com and give it a whirl.

Slackmaster 2000

[Setherial]

i've got win 95 at 200 mhz...will n-track treat me well enough? and can i use it with cooledit?

[Setherial]

ug...32 mb of ram...i went through all the properties boxes but could'nt find the hard disk speed although it's a ide disk type-47...does that help. as far as question c...i do recall hearing that this pc has busmastering...in what context, i'm not sure.

[nonewguy]

I was able to record 8 wjile playing files with my p200 and 824 on 40b ram with a 5400 HDD, on win95. Now I like 98Lite with the 95 desktop better, both
worked. I never stressed it to see how many it would play. I do not know if there is anything that is easier on a machine than n-Track, there might be though, it always worked for me.
Short of his Beta development stuff of course. Some of those are nuts.

I had, and still have nothing else running, no virus scan
or task thingies, nothing. I Keep it defragged. I Clean house, dump or copy and save stuff to cd-r, and defrag. These are
all general truths that are worth repeating endlessly, that,
and drivers. Its the drivers.


Now with "live" DX,VST, VSTi, and with the coming ASIO, I think Flavio is near or at the top of any list, at any price.

The sound is in the
soundcard/system(mics etc),and FX, not the multitracker.

I have been paying attention, and I cannot name a soundcard that wont run with it.Even MOTU.

Because of this, even if you use something else, it is useful to find out if your system is basically okay, for troubleshooting etc.
Just for that its worth the cash. I have
looked at all the others,but always got tired
of the limitations or complexity.

I am finding 2000 is a whole new thing as far as stability. The thing is solid.
Almost no comparison, except you end up clicking mostly the same things. It looks similar,
its not the same at all.

I'm not certain you would be better with 2000 on your machine though. I think its probably pretty demanding. But if you can make it happen, it
is stable.

I have a 2000 on a celeron 400/BE 6 II,
/ata 66 7200 HDD, and it
is steady as a rock, playing 24 and recording 8.
At this point, the adjust buffer settings window comes up, it doesn't freeze and stop etc. If I twist it up to 600 mhz, I still get the buffer window at 32 tracks.

Overclocking
For some reason, 98 balked at 600, but would play at 594 (FSB at 99). 2000 doesn't seem to even notice.
But as there seems to be no advantage, perhaps in FX
processing I might see it, but as there is no advantge in tracks I have been running it at 400/66. I dont pile on FX. If I hear something I like, I save a copy of the file with the effect on it. Thats an old habit from using slower machines.

If you are creative, you have enough machine.

You will still want more, it is best to grab the high performance parts one at a time at the good price, and set a goal of new machine by 6 months for example. This is
a continuing process for me, and it hurts a lot less than just buying everything at once.

I think I am gonna go for one of the 700 celerons with the pIII instruction set.
Start saving the quarters.

Anyway, 98 is the limiter, regardless of which multitracker you use.
You can periodically get crazy
numbers of tracks with a speedy setup, but then blam, you are stopped, unpredictably.

This is finally true with every multitracker that uses 98. I hope this stuff is of value to you, I repeat it because I
believe it to be true.
jim