Cubase SE and Celeron

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Hey guys, about 18 months ago I bought a tascam us 122 bundled with Cubasis...out of date I know. I had a music guy take a look at it, and in our attempts to set up an M-Audio midi controller, we ran into a lot of problems. He suggested i upgrade to Cubase SE to solve most of the issues; audio/midi clock out of sync, plug-ins won't play in real time, etc. I'm more than willing to follow his advice, the only problem is I'm running a Celeron 2.8Ghz chip and 512 MB of ram..the ram I'm not so converned with; Abelton Lite processes things fine. However will the celeron chip cause problems? I'm so new at this guys, any advice would be amazing. Cheers.
 
Shouldn't be a problem

Hi,

I'm running Cubase SX 2 on a Celeron 2.5 Ghz processor with 512RAM and I haven't had any problems at all, infact it's quite fast to use, no hang-ups, latency etc. I use it heavily enough some times with MIDI routing, recording on multiple tracks, sends etc so the spec shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure you've tried this, but it sounds more like a device driver/configuration problem if the PC is running okay with other software. No expert on this stuff myself unfortunately.
 
If Albeton works fine he may be right. on the other hand which drivers are you using? ASIO, WDM? check your buffers and latency setings.
 
Only thing that could limit is the processor's ability to do multiple things at once: vst, plugins, too many tracks. Otherwise you should be fine.

Pete
 
Hi

Im using 16 Bit ASIO drivers....whattya reckon? buy?
 
try other freeware/shareware

Cubase SE is a good upgrade from cubasis, which is very limited. You could also try other programs like ntrack (www.fasoft.com) or reaper, which right now is freeware (http://www.reaper.fm/). Buy cubase SE later, or try and find a copy of cubase LE, which is bundled free with the purchase of most hardware these days. I use LE and it's great.
 
Hmmm.....

See I've no problem buying it, you know? I just kinda need assurance it'll run on my machine...If I didn't say already, I'm using US 122 16 bit ASIO drivers, M-audio Oxygen V8 midi controller, 512 MB of ram and Celeron 2.8ghz, windows XP service pack 2.
 
If you have a Celeron processor and a non-Intel chipset motherboard, you may have problems, no matter what hardware or software you use. If you don't, you can be relatively assured of getting things to work. I think that cubasis was the major problem that you had.
 
forgive my ignorance...

Okay, I'm positive that I have a celeron processor...but what about a motherboard? I'm real sorry I'm not very clued in.
 
The motherboard manufacturer uses a certain brand or type of processor to run the motherboard functions, like interfacing with the CPU, the serial and parallel I/O, firewire & USB ports. That is referred to as the motherboard "chipset". For audio, Intel cpu's work best with motherboards with Intel chipsets. For audio and Athlon cpu's, certain brands of chipsets perform better with fewer incompatibilities than others. If you have a name brand (Dell, HP, Compaq) computer, you could find out what motherboard and chipset you have by referring to the manual or referencing your computer model number to info on their website. In any case, the motherboard manufacturer and model number is printed on the motherboard itself.
 
I'm running my US 122 and LE with PIII/700 and 256 Mb. Works fine with 2 tracks at a time recording , on projects using up to 12 tracks. VST effects (4/ch) work fine too. I haven't used VST instruments extensively enough to find when my processor speed becomes prohibitive. A new celeron should do fine if you're doing things about as complex as I.

If you get a different interface that permits >2 tracks at once recording, you'll undoubtedly need something faster.
 
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