God I'm still having computer trouble

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I was recording on my old laptop and when I started doing a song with over 20 tracks and powerful plugins things would start slowing down and crashing. So I just invested in a great computer with 12gbs of ram, i5 quad core, ssd boot drive with a very fast 1tb hdd. I'm working on mixing a song and I got to about 40 tracks and 20 vsts and 6 busses and now its starting to skip around again. And I havent even added the vocal tracks yet! What am I supposed to do? Anyone else had this issue? This really sucks, I just bought this computer and it's happening again! It's making me sick to my stomach. Help!

My daw and it's projects and files are on my ssd. My Native Instruments Komplete 8 is on my hdd (it wouldnt fit on my ssd) but I haven't even used it yet.
 
You probably need to change the latency in your ASIO driver settings. Find your interface in control panel and find where you adjust driver settings. In there, change the size of your audio buffer (measured in number of samples). Increasing the number of samples will improve performance, but also increases the amount of time from when you hit a key on a VSTi, say, and you hear a sound.

It is common for people to do all their recording at a low buffer setting (therefore, lower latency), then up the buffer size when mixing as that's when all the plugins will be added, so the computer needs more time to process everything.
 
Simple answer is to bounce or stem render some of those tracks with VST(i)s that are using up CPU - reverbs and instruments are the worst. Then you turn off hte plug in and mute that channel.
 
If this PC is going to do a lot of audio-visual production, you might also benefit from doing some OS performance tweaks. For one possibility, search for "black viper". This site provides comprehensive system tweaks for several versions of Windows.

Paul
 
the word 'over-produced' comes to mind.
Why do you need reverb or effects on single track?
Every track you add, adds changes to every other track you've added.
Mix it down to 2 tracks... add vocals to that.
problem solved.
Get the sound you want, and be happy with it. Otherwise you'll take years to complete anything.
The Beatles entire recording career was 8 1/2 years. U2 takes that much time between two albums.


The best produced songs are the ones that don't sound produced.
Simplify
Simplify
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Music is a moment. BE in that moment.
 
Kerfoot32 said:
My daw and it's projects and files are on my ssd. My Native Instruments Komplete 8 is on my hdd (it wouldnt fit on my ssd) but I haven't even used it yet.
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SSDs are not magic.
You should still be running your project files from their own drive. You OS, services and apps still access the ssd interrupting the flow of data from project files.

OS, apps and plugins on boot drive.
Sample libraries (if used) on their own drive
Project files on their own drive.

Smoooooth flow of data is your goal....
 
Ok good advice guys. I'll try some of the things yoiu suggested. Heres my drive setups:

There are basically 2 programs I have. Sony Acid pro 7 and Native Instruments Komplete 8. My boot drive is a ssd. 124 gbs I think. My secondary drive is a 1tb hdd.

I have acid and all of its built-in plugins on my ssd. All my projects and audio files are on the ssd as well. Komplete 8 is a massive bundle of plugins AND sample libraries. I had to put it on my hdd because it wouldn't fit on my ssd.

What should I do? Should I get another ssd exclusively for my audio files. If I did that should I keep acid on my boot drive or should that go on the ssd with the audio files? And do my plugins have to be on my boot drive or is it ok that they're on my hdd (with sample libraries)? Or should I find a way to keep the komplete plugins (guitar rig, battery, etc) on my boot drive while putting the komplete sample libraries on my hdd?
 
You should install the Komplete programs on your SSD and the libraries on your HDD. When you install Komplete, you specifiy separate paths for the programs, the plugins (both 32 and 64 bit) and the sample libraries (this was the case when I installed Komplete Ultimate - I figure it must be the same for Komplete).

Personally, I run my OS, apps, DAW, plugins and projects all from a single SSD and have my sample libraries on an external USB3 HDD. I do have a second SSD, so should probably move my projects to there, but I haven't had any issues so far.
 
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