Single track recording

[Rockhouse]

Ok guys here we go. My Son and I are admittedly major newbies, We are running Cubase SX3 on a 2gig processor, through a Mackie Onyx 1620 with Firewire, are we stuck with single channel recording? Will it take a dual core processor to get more at one time? Appreciate your help and advice.

[pandamonk]

Originally Posted by Rockhouse

Ok guys here we go. My Son and I are admittedly major newbies, We are running Cubase SX3 on a 2gig processor, through a Mackie Onyx 1620 with Firewire, are we stuck with single channel recording? Will it take a dual core processor to get more at one time? Appreciate your help and advice.

Shouldn't do. It won't be setup properly. I don't know how to setup multitrack recording yet, so i'll let someone else help. You shouldn't need anything extra though.

[Dogman]

It looks like your Onyx has 8 pres, correct? If so, you should be able to record 8 ins at once. I use a Firepod, and record 4 drum tracks at once, into an old computer...Athlon 1200, 384Mg of ram, and it works pretty well.

[Lo-Fi Mike]

Originally Posted by Rockhouse

Will it take a dual core processor to get more at one time? Appreciate your help and advice.

NO WAY.
I have recorded 8 different mics at the same time on an Athlon AMD 2.08ghz not an Athlon XP not an Athlon64 and definitely not a dual core system.
I'm sure i could have done more, but my sound card only allows up to 8 mic conversion.

mow if i try to go back and use 3 waves plug ins on each track(which i would never do) using only CPU power from my computers, then i might have a problem.
---mike---

[Trell Blaze]

Originally Posted by Lo-Fi Mike

mow if i try to go back and use 3 waves plug ins on each track(which i would never do) using only CPU power from my computers, then i might have a problem.
---mike---

Hmm...maybe this is my problem. I've sometimes run 3 waves plugins across 30+ tracks...even when I had an Athlon Sempron 3000+ processor

[dachay2tnr]

Originally Posted by Rockhouse

Ok guys here we go. My Son and I are admittedly major newbies, We are running Cubase SX3 on a 2gig processor, through a Mackie Onyx 1620 with Firewire, are we stuck with single channel recording? Will it take a dual core processor to get more at one time? Appreciate your help and advice.

The number of tracks you can record *simultaneously* will be limited by the number of inputs on your sound card. If you have a stock sound card in your computer, it will allow two tracks at a time (stereo input = one left track, one right track). A more professional sound card will allow up to 8 or more.

If you don't need to record them simultaneously, most decent software will allow you to record as many tracks as you want. I'm not familiar with Cubase, but I imagine there is no limit on tracks.

You CPU won't come into play until you get too many tracks for the processor to handle. It's not a function of single core or dual core, simply processing power. However, you shouldn't bump into that issue until you've got LOTS of tracks with LOTS of effects on them.

[legionserial]

Have you set up connections in cubase to each of the inputs?

[Rockhouse]

Thanks everyone who has replied, I will print your questions out for my Son to review and get back with his answers, amazingly we live 6 miles apart and he cannot get DSL.

[cusebassman]

Originally Posted by Lo-Fi Mike

I have recorded 8 different mics at the same time on an Athlon AMD 2.08mhz

2.08 MHZ, eh? Was this back in 1983?

[Lo-Fi Mike]

Originally Posted by cusebassman

2.08 MHZ, eh? Was this back in 1983?

ha ha ha wow..... i mean Ghz... man that's funny.
oh well if you cant laugh at your self who can you laugh at....
---mike---