AudioPhile problem...

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I just bought an audiophile but when I play midi files
on cubase, the computer crashes. when I play audio recordings,
the computer says that it is too slow. I have a Pentium 3, 500mhz pc. The memory is only 64mb. If i change the memory would that solve the problem?
 
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Is it only the memory that affects the playback or does the graphics card have anything to do with it?
 
A 500Mhz system is bare minimum but should work. 64MB of Ram is not quite enough. However, just playing midi files should not cause a crash...you may have some kind of conflict going on. Check for conflicts in your system tools. Your video card will cause less problems if set to 16bit. An upgrade of ram to at least 128 would help.
 
Did you mean to say 5400 rpm
If so, its ok, but 7200 is faster and better for audio apps.
I would consider an upgrade in all departments
 
Can someone tell me about the audiophile? Does the midi sound go through it? or does my computer need another card that has a midi synth? what should I look for if I need a secondary card? I have a cheap one but my computer crashes every time I use cubase.
what should I do?
 
Hey Trav, first of all you'll want to max out that memory at 512mb. Im not sure what operating system you have, but here is a link to a tutorial that made my 500mhz Windows 98SE run SUPER fast. (the juicy stuff starts on page 7)

http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/articles/tascam/pc.shtml

also, you may want to get a 7200 rpm drive if you dont already have one


P.S. i've got an Audiophile 24/96 and they key with 98 is to use the older drivers. Their tech support was pretty helpful......some of them are dumbasses though. Do you have other cards installed? Check the IRQ settings to see if there are any conflicts

Peace




'THE BEATLES DID IT WITH MUCH LESS"
 
The Audiophile has no onboard MIDI synthesizer like a SoundBlaster. You need to either direct the MIDI data to some kind of DXi or VSTi software synth in a host DAW program like Cubase or Sonar to hear it or connect an external MIDI tone generator/sound module with MIDI cables.
 
I got my other sound card fixed and it works now. I have a few other questions.

1. when I record something, the first track sounds good but when I record the second track, nothing records into it? what part of the settings should I look into for this? (I use cubase vst)

2. How do I set the latency to 1ms?
3. How do I syncronize midi and vsti's to Audio?
 
travis (kabayan)
The Audiophile is a great card especially for Audio. I too had problems with it and my last machine was ALSO a P3 500 Mhz with a Cakewalk HS2002 and I just fixed it. Now it rocks!

There are lots of tweak guides on the net like THIS ONE. They helped me a lot when I was using my old PC which also had a 5400 rpm system drive and only 192 MB of SDRAM.

But seeing as how the P3 and SD RAM are slowly marching to extinction, I suggest you start planning for a major system upgrade. Its hell supporting a P3 here, especially if the problems are with the mainboard! P3 mainboards are getting scarcer and scarcer and I dont think you'd want to risk buying one of the old VIA chipset ones. Besides, you're probably going to upgrade in the future anyway so there'sno point in stop-gap solutions that will ultimately just add to the cost.

So save some Christmas money! Its going to be worth it, trust me.
 
travis16vp said:
I got my other sound card fixed and it works now. I have a few other questions.

1. when I record something, the first track sounds good but when I record the second track, nothing records into it? what part of the settings should I look into for this? (I use cubase vst)

2. How do I set the latency to 1ms?
3. How do I syncronize midi and vsti's to Audio?
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There is no way you will get 1ms latency with a P3. Maybe 5ms at best.
 
tonejunkee said:
Hey Trav, first of all you'll want to max out that memory at 512mb.
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odds are he won't be able to utilize that much ram with a plll motherboard and he'd be wasting a few dollars
 
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