PLease Help. This is sucking. Do I expect to much?

[Freudian Slip]

Ok. Here is my hardware profile. I have a 1ghz P3 computer running windows 98 with a 60 gig Ibm ultra IED 7200 RPM hard drive. A Intel Easton 815 mother board, 256 mb of pc133 ram. A echo layla24 interface, and Cakewalk 9.0 suite.

Here is my problem. I can playback about 20 tracks at a time with about 8 real time effects and record a couple of tracks at once, but if I try to record 7 tracks at a time while playing back 2 tracks it will go for 10 or 20 seconds and then the playback will skip like a CD or the system will freeze.

This is pretty muck a stock untweaked installation. Oh ya, there is no midi involved except I play the midi metronome over my sound blaster soundcard into a mic to make the click track. From there it is all audio.

Can anyone help me? Do you think there is a problem or is my system just to weak? How should I have my clocks set? Internal? Do I need a ultra scuzi hard drive or more memory or do I just need to tweak my system. I have played a lot of tracks and recorded a few at the same time. Why cant I play one or two tracks and record several.

Buffers?

Please help if you can.

Are there any good threads about this?

PS Cakewalks database sucks so bad. Their support has no
subcatagories for different sound cards, I would say that is my biggest bitch with them. Poor support. Grant it I have not called but I work all day and it is a day time phone on the east coast!!!!


BAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

[brokenwindow]

I would say that your just maxing out your system. )probably your hardrive.

What kind of fx you are using plays a factor too. Good reverbs suck up a lot of power.

Also...what bit depth and resolution are you recording at?

If your recording 7 tracks at 24/96, it's probably your hardrive.

You could try cranking the buffers up.

[Freudian Slip]

It was a clock problem between my cards and cakewalk.
All better now. not a glitch? I also did some major tweek'n and speeded things up.


Thanks
Dave

[Gag]

Great.. how did you solve the clock problem? Gag

[Freudian Slip]

I set the clock/ timer to internal in the layla consle, and I set the timing master/clock to audio output in cakewalk. In my case it way layla 1/2 audio out.


Hope this helps

F.S.


I