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Mike@Hawkehaven
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Hmmmmm.....
To help solve your problem, since hard drives are getting pretty darn cheap, get an external hard drive to either put your recoding on, or put your non-music stuff on it. I found that if you put your software programs etc on 1 drive and your data files on a second drive dedicated to audio only you will greatly reduce problems.
If you have alot of stuff running in the background, like yahoo messenger etc, this will hose your recording /playback stuff drastically.
My laptop doesn't have the virus software running while I'm doing music on it, no messenger stuff ever at all...... and there is still over 65 items running on XP in the background!!!!
I have no problems though since I have a 1.73 P4 and a gig and a half of ram. I use the laptop for portable tracking and rough-in mixing, dump the results onto a usb ram stick that plugs into a 3 gig 840 Intel machine I built with 2 gig of ram that is sans anything but minimal XP in it for the real hard work.
Both machines are capable or playing back 32 tracks at once (haven't done more than this yet) so far.
So....... I would remove all the stuff that you really don't need. Place all your programs on a single dedicated system/program drive, dedicate the other drive for data only. Most all software allows you to decide where on your computer you want the various files to get stored. Just don't let the computer default where it goes. You tell it what you want and where to get placed.
Create folders on your data drive for your music files, then with sub-folders for each of your projects. When you "save as" your work the first time you physically see where it goes. Once the computer sees where you want it.....it will save there every time.
Then get a second and/or third hard drive for music only. I use 2 hard disks just for back-up not counting the three I record with. Every song has a folder where the templates, cpr files and my reason 3 files all go into. Easy to find, easy to dump into a cdwr/dvdwr or ram stick.
You will find your machine will work way faster and efficiently. With portable drives the sky is the limit for transporting your stuff to use on other machines if you wish too. Hope this helps, Mike
To help solve your problem, since hard drives are getting pretty darn cheap, get an external hard drive to either put your recoding on, or put your non-music stuff on it. I found that if you put your software programs etc on 1 drive and your data files on a second drive dedicated to audio only you will greatly reduce problems.
If you have alot of stuff running in the background, like yahoo messenger etc, this will hose your recording /playback stuff drastically.
My laptop doesn't have the virus software running while I'm doing music on it, no messenger stuff ever at all...... and there is still over 65 items running on XP in the background!!!!
I have no problems though since I have a 1.73 P4 and a gig and a half of ram. I use the laptop for portable tracking and rough-in mixing, dump the results onto a usb ram stick that plugs into a 3 gig 840 Intel machine I built with 2 gig of ram that is sans anything but minimal XP in it for the real hard work.
Both machines are capable or playing back 32 tracks at once (haven't done more than this yet) so far.
So....... I would remove all the stuff that you really don't need. Place all your programs on a single dedicated system/program drive, dedicate the other drive for data only. Most all software allows you to decide where on your computer you want the various files to get stored. Just don't let the computer default where it goes. You tell it what you want and where to get placed.
Create folders on your data drive for your music files, then with sub-folders for each of your projects. When you "save as" your work the first time you physically see where it goes. Once the computer sees where you want it.....it will save there every time.
Then get a second and/or third hard drive for music only. I use 2 hard disks just for back-up not counting the three I record with. Every song has a folder where the templates, cpr files and my reason 3 files all go into. Easy to find, easy to dump into a cdwr/dvdwr or ram stick.
You will find your machine will work way faster and efficiently. With portable drives the sky is the limit for transporting your stuff to use on other machines if you wish too. Hope this helps, Mike
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