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lalo
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Hi there!
First of all, i want to say that this and the other forums have been an invaluable source of knowledge and help. But i'm only human, so here i am:
My PC:
- AMD K-6 II / 400 Mhz
- HD 20 gig. Quantum Fireball (C: drive)
- HD 2 gig (D: drive, only backup)
- Sound Balster Live! Value
- CD rom 24x
- Video 8megs. on motherboard
- Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0
Until yesterday i had 96 megs. of RAM, and i was getting around 6 tracks w/inserts (compression, delay, chorus) and some 4 midi tracks. I thought this was because my lack of RAM, but today i installed another 128Mg. So now i have 216 (224-8megs for video), and i am still getting the same!!
WHY!WHY!WHY!!!! the CPU meter is around 80-95% (w/inserts) and the disk meter is 10-25%. I've done some testing and found that i can run like 20 audio tracks without any effect, 10 with EQ on all inserts, and 5 or 4 with compresion, eq, and an aux reverb. My virtual memory is fixed (at twice my RAM).
So what is wrong? Ihave read that some people using the same processor are getting at least twice the number of tracks with inserts that i am getting. Could this be because im using the same drive for everything? Would i be better using the 2 gig (slower) drive for system and software and the 20 gig drive for audio only?
Can you help me figure this out??
THANKS
LALO
First of all, i want to say that this and the other forums have been an invaluable source of knowledge and help. But i'm only human, so here i am:
My PC:
- AMD K-6 II / 400 Mhz
- HD 20 gig. Quantum Fireball (C: drive)
- HD 2 gig (D: drive, only backup)
- Sound Balster Live! Value
- CD rom 24x
- Video 8megs. on motherboard
- Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0
Until yesterday i had 96 megs. of RAM, and i was getting around 6 tracks w/inserts (compression, delay, chorus) and some 4 midi tracks. I thought this was because my lack of RAM, but today i installed another 128Mg. So now i have 216 (224-8megs for video), and i am still getting the same!!
WHY!WHY!WHY!!!! the CPU meter is around 80-95% (w/inserts) and the disk meter is 10-25%. I've done some testing and found that i can run like 20 audio tracks without any effect, 10 with EQ on all inserts, and 5 or 4 with compresion, eq, and an aux reverb. My virtual memory is fixed (at twice my RAM).
So what is wrong? Ihave read that some people using the same processor are getting at least twice the number of tracks with inserts that i am getting. Could this be because im using the same drive for everything? Would i be better using the 2 gig (slower) drive for system and software and the 20 gig drive for audio only?
Can you help me figure this out??
THANKS
LALO