best PC for cubase 5

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Hello!

I am using the Tascam FW-1884 as my sound card and my mackie control.
I am using cubase 5, and have some latency and cuttings (amputations) whlile working with a heavy VST (using a usb midi keyboard and a great piano vst!!).

when i am looking on the windows CPU perfomence i am taking my CPU to its limit (as about 95%...) so i have decided to buy a new computer.
Is it the right decision?

when i am restarting cubase, it takes about 3 minutes till it cuts again. after about 5-10 mins, i have distortions...

the FW-1884 is working great when i am recording 8 analog inputs... but whith one VST my computers get stuck.
I am using pentium 1 core 2GHZ.

shat is the best computer for me for 500$ (no screen or accesories needed.)
shoul i use windows 7/vista/XP.?

Thank you!!!
 
orrl said:
when i am restarting cubase, it takes about 3 minutes till it cuts again. after about 5-10 mins, i have distortions...
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hmmm seems like this should be telloing us something... are you using alotta small clips that repeat through-out the song??? check the manual for freezing tracks....
 
what do you mean by "small clips"?

when i am recording a VST tool, (a piano) , after a minute or two, not all the keyboard that i am pressing are playing, and those who does, sound terrible (with many cuttoffs and distortion).

Thank you very much to all the responders!
 
what i was suggesting is if you use small 1-2 measure snippets they would need to be loaded into ram and retriggered... after awhile of adding more perhaps your ram would run out... doesnt sound now as thats the case... tell us about the com puter... as specific as you can be...
 
Sounds like you are running out of RAM buy som emore if your not already maxed out and see if that helps.

If you have to buy, unfortunately for $500 your not going to get a lot of choice in PCs that are good for audio production. In that price range the Dell Vostro for the Dell Business line is actually surprising well executed for audio, You'll need to put in a firewire card and maybe a second hard drive but for a tower only you can get it pretty close to $500
 
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