CPU spikes

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AL. this is a new one on me.
frankly i question technicall what the guy at the store told you.
i find this very interesting from a technical perspective.
if you get the time. reverse it....ie..cubase on disk 2 and tracks on disk 1.
see if the spike returns. which disk do you have the win OS on ?
disk one ? i suspect ???
 
manning1 said:
AL. this is a new one on me.
frankly i question technicall what the guy at the store told you.
i find this very interesting from a technical perspective.
if you get the time. reverse it....ie..cubase on disk 2 and tracks on disk 1.
see if the spike returns. which disk do you have the win OS on ?
disk one ? i suspect ???
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I have Win XP on S-ATA disk 1(c:\) with Cubase. Before I record, I have to create a directory so the audio files can go on S-ATA disk 2(d:\). No audio files can go on the same disk with Cubase and the O/S to solve this problem. I had to buy two disks.

The sales guy at the computer store don't sale music stuff. They just sale computer parts. He said that he noticed that producers were having of problems with the Cubase program and the new S-ATA drives for the PC. I told him that some people don't have this kind problem so what's-up with that? All that he knows is that people are having problems with Cubase and the new S-ATA HD for the PC. That's all he knows. All that I know is that I cannot record on the same hard disk where Cubase is installed. I get too many pops and clicks even when Cubase is at idle: that's with no playback. Sometimes, I can just minimize the Cubase window and get a pop.

I am just glad that we have you guys because I know that I am no Einstein when it comes to stuff like this.

Thanks a lot!! :D
--AL
 
Ha ... figures. We beat ourselves to death trying to isolate a hardware/software problem and overlooked the obvious. :rolleyes:
That is the typical method of operation in a DAW with two drives. OS, programs and plugins on the primary boot drive and the working directory for the audio on the secondary.

Glad ya got it sorted. :cool:
 
Al. a question. this has me technically interested. you said you get a pop when minimising a window. do you have an ATI video card perhaps ??
also - answer me this - perchance - in other non daw programs
try bringing up a bunch of different windows and grab one and move it around rapidly with the mouse. do you hear pops / anomolies ?????
also could you tell me if your using this pc as a gaming machine as well ???
peace.
 
another advantage to using seperate HD's is the fact that if you're windows (or any OS) crashes and you end up loosing a bunch of software, you won't loose any audio, since the 2nd HD will be saved.

How do you guys sort the files and directories? I'm trying to figure out a good way to manage my Audio HD and keep it simple and orginized. Any suggestions?

thanks

Buzi
 
I just use main folders named for the different programs I use.
Within each main folder will be sub folders named for each band I'm working with. Then of course there are many more sub folders for the different songs, raw tracks, sub-mixes and final mixes (named accordingly).
 
manning1 said:
Al. a question. this has me technically interested. you said you get a pop when minimising a window. do you have an ATI video card perhaps ??
also - answer me this - perchance - in other non daw programs
try bringing up a bunch of different windows and grab one and move it around rapidly with the mouse. do you hear pops / anomolies ?????
also could you tell me if your using this pc as a gaming machine as well ???
peace.
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I am using a Radeon 9600. No other application does this. Cubase is the only one; I use Acid Pro, Reason, Wavlab, Rebirth and etc. Cubase was a big problem. I also use Microsoft Flight Simulator. I can move the windows all around with no problem.

Man.....Cubase had me worried and I was getting really pissed-off!! This situation was getting scary and we paid good money for Cubase to say it will not work with S-ATA.

I know this guy that uses Nuendo. He said when recording audio, we should always have the applications on one HD, record on another HD and have samples on another one. He also said that it should always be like this because there are too much information for one disk to handle. This is why SCSI is good for servers because SCSI is design to handle big loads. Yes...S-ATA has the speed too, but SCSI can handle some serious load. I have 2 S-ATA HD and they put those SCSI I had to shame. What a big diference and those S-ATA cost 3 times less!

So I think that we should practice using at least 2 S-ATA HD for Audio. No SCSI system comes close and I am a witness to that for sure! ;)
 
AL. certainly having 2 drives is good. because you dont get whats called disk drive contention.
ie..windows OS making a call to the drive at the same time the multitrack software is. but if all is working great now. thats wonderfull.
i just wanted to check if it was the vid card causing the problem. but as you can drag around windows with no popping , then its not the vid card.
all the best.
 
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