Help Me With My New Home Studio 2002 Pls

[jeap]

HEY THERE!

I sold my Akai DPS-16 and bought a Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 XL.

This stuff is making me crazy!

I made a nice drum track with fruityloops after much trial and error.

I was able to make a .wav file and export it.

I was able to import the .wav file into home studio and it shows graphically very nicely.

When i try to play it my HD gets VERY busy. The track played with some dropouts and after much hesitation.

The next time i tried to play it the whole thing froze up.

It seems like the whole thing should be quick and easy but it's not.

Am I missing a tweak or setting?

 

[Paul881]

What computer and ram do you have?

Have you adjusted the latency slider? Options>audio and move the slider at the bottom to the right until you don't get drop-outs anymore. After making any changes to the slider, please remember to hit the Wave Profiler to ensure your changes are applied and saved.

 

[jeap]

yes

yes i actually was able to move the buffer slider and do the wave profiler!

it occurred to me that maybe i was approaching the whole thing wrong. i made a full track without loops in the fruity thing and tried to move the whole thing over. maybe i should just move the patterns over and make the track in cakewalk??? i moved a pattern and it works fine so i guess my file was just too damn big.

my comp is 350mhz pentium 2 with a whopping 64mb of ram.

i guess i could use more ram...

i got a used copy of 2002 off ebay cause im running win98 and 2004 wont run on plain 98.



i guess my main issue is everything seems so complex and so far the manuals and help files have not been overly helpful.

it's like you get over one hurdle and the next one is right there and its too high to hop over...

the standalones are so easy in comparison.

what have i done???????

 

[Qwerty]

Try increasing the I/O buffers for your HD - double, quadruple and half and quarter the default value.

I suspect though, that you are just running out of grunt.

Q.

 

[brzilian]

Your system does not have enough power to run HS2002. I would not recommend anything less than a PII-500 with 256 Mb of RAM (which I believe are Cakewalk's recommended system specs). I am assuming you are using whatever soundcard came with the PC which is probably a Sound Blaster type card. That is also not adequate for HS2002. You need something with decent WDM drivers like the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 or Echo Audio MiaMIDI.

 

[jeap]

ooooooooooh

theres other buffers for my hd!!!!? i guess i should look for those!

the system thing is something i checked at the cakewalk site. for 2004 they recommend 300mhz and 32mb so i should be able to get started anyways...

i think my mistake was to try to import a whole drum track with lots of redundancy instead of just importing my patterns and making the track in home studio.

i want to get the little tascam usb interface for $199. that looks perfect with midi for my keyboard and 2 mic inputs and line inputs.

luckily memory is cheap!

thanks for the suggestions!

now if they only had a better manual...

 

[moskus]

Re: ooooooooooh

the system thing is something i checked at the cakewalk site. for 2004 they recommend 300mhz and 32mb so i should be able to get started anyways..

Errr... that's the minimum requirements.

A 800 Mhz processor is minimum for Sonar 3, recommended is 1.2 GHz. I run it on a 1.6 GHz and still want more...

 

[Paul881]

I used to run HS2002 on a PII 450 1 Meg Ram puter and it kept crashing/locking/freezing/dropping out, so I ditched it and got a better one.

Welcome to the world of constant upgrades and gear fests

 

[brzilian]

Re: ooooooooooh

theres other buffers for my hd!!!!? i guess i should look for those!

the system thing is something i checked at the cakewalk site. for 2004 they recommend 300mhz and 32mb so i should be able to get started anyways...

i think my mistake was to try to import a whole drum track with lots of redundancy instead of just importing my patterns and making the track in home studio.

i want to get the little tascam usb interface for $199. that looks perfect with midi for my keyboard and 2 mic inputs and line inputs.

luckily memory is cheap!

thanks for the suggestions!

now if they only had a better manual...

I suggest you do more research before spending money. USB is not a good idea for audio. This topic has been beaten to death in the Computer Recording and Soundcards Forum.

32Mb of RAM is barely enough for the Windows OS itself...

I started off using HS2002 on a PII-450 and the program did not work well until I ugraded to a P4-2.26 Ghz system.

 

[jeap]

dont you just hate it?

dont you hate it when somebody copies your entire post?

i ordered the tascam us 122 after looking to see what ppls said about it in the other forum!



and i ordered some memory

 

[moskus]

Re: dont you just hate it?

dont you hate it when somebody copies your entire post?

Brzilian always does that. Why I don't know...

 

[brzilian]

Re: dont you just hate it?

dont you hate it when somebody copies your entire post?

So that there is no doubt as to which post I am replying to.

 

[jeap]

well...

well i got my memory today and plugged it in.

i got 2 64mb pc100 dimms to triple my memory.

thats what my motherboard manual said to get and they were only 13 bux each with free shipping.

i slapped em in and imported my drum track again and it worked flawlessly!

woooo!

thanks again for the advice - it made me get the memory sooner!

 

[moskus]

Reminds me of the old computer saying:

When everything else fails, add more memory...