CPU Warning Message??

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Lately, I've been working with a 96/24 project in Cakewalk and I'm getting a problem where the CPU meter at the bottom right will light all the way up (green, yellow and red) and a little CPU WARNING message is there too. Once that happens, the only way to restore audio play is by restarting my pc... any ideas on how I can avoid this or at least "reset" the audio without having to restart the computer?

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I would say get a bigger, better, faster computer. But I suspect you've thought of that already. :)
 
Yeah, which would be a bummer. I just had this one built: 1GB RAM, P4, the works... Hoping it's something simpler/less expensive than than :)
 
24/96 is a hell of a lot of data for a pc to handle. i doubt i could hear a difference in 48 and 96.
 
Yeah this is a project that was originally tracked on a MAC in Protools. To save a few bucks we decided to do vocals and acoustic guitar parts in my studio, then take it back to a pro studio for final mixing. The original files were all 24/96. If we were gonna finish it up here, I'd certainly convert 'em all down to 48, but since they're going back to the MAC guy... Anyway, I've been messing with the buffer setting and at 512 it seems to be helping, but now completely eliminating it.
 
What is the speed of your processor? At what speed are you running your ram? Are you running anything else in your system tray? I run an A64 3200+ and 2 gigs and I'm able to run 60+ tracks at a time without issue. A gig should be plenty. What kind of pc is it? You had it built by whom?

Mix down all the tracks by type into stereo tracks and archive all the originals with track processing intact. That should free you up some clock cycles.

-Casey
 
It's a 2.9GhZ processor. I'm not savvy enough to answer the RAM speed question. Nothing else running on the tray. I had a local shop build it for me. It's the third PC I've bought from them and I've had pretty good luck with all of them.

It does seem that now that I've set the buffer to size 512 things are better.
 
I don't know how many tracks you're running at 24/96, but you could do a bounce to track to create a submix, or several submixes with the reverb, EQ, and whatever other effects applied, then archive the individual tracks leaving only the submixes active for monitoring/cueing purposes, this should save you some CPU.


:)
 
Sub-mixes is a good idea, and if you're using alot of effects (or DXi's) the Freeze-function is absolutely a must.
 
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