Cubase - Hard Drive Problems ???

[Richvee]

I am running a PIII 650 with 256MB ram with cubase vst/24 software and am having trouble when i run more than 16 tracks. In the performance bar the cpu is fine but it says my hard drive is not fast enough although it's running at 7200rpm. Is this normal or should i be able to run more tracks. I have a quantum hard drive. I am also running a few compressors and reverbs but even when i remove the plug-ins there is no change.

[Edited by Richvee on 10-13-2000 at 21:08]

 

[JoeNewbie]

Sorry to say it but you chould be cranking a lot more tracks than that. Especially if you aren't using any inserts/plugins/vst instruments. What kind of hard drives do you have? Who is the manufacture? etc... anything else that you can think that is system specific would help.

 

[Randy5235]

right click on the My Computer icon,left click on properties,click the Device Manager tab,double click on Disk Drive,double click on the IDE device,click on the settings tab and make sure there is a check next to DMA(direct memory access) if there is not put one there,this will greatly enhance the amount of tracks you can run

 

[Spider]

hi there richvee ,
so what else is your pc used for ?? this gets said a million times , but do u have anything else running , screensavers...etc.. Theres a few things u can do to optimize your setup for audio , just do a search on it... theres heaps of info on it.. But your pc sounds like a nice machine , i run a p3 450 256mb ram and i get a heap more tracks than that .. If dma wasnt checked i couldnt imagine you getting that many tracks to start with , but definetly check it out...what about the quantums??? does anyone know what there like for audio? well good luck with it anyway ... and kepp us posted...
spider

 

[Emeric]

Quantum's are fine drives. I have 2 of them that I use only for audio data - 15GB LM and 20GB KX.

16 tracks is still quite a bit though. Even with a PIII800 I try to limit myself to 20tracks max.