Mbox: Get more RAM?

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Im having a bit of delay on playback when recording. I have this because i set bus levels at 1024 (somewhere around that). When i decrease below that to say 512 or under, it overloads the cache or something like that.

My question is...
Will an increase from 512mb of ram to 1.5 Ghz solve one of those problems above, so i can either record w/ no playback at 1024, or record at 512 or under and not overload the cache memory?
Also I'm planning on a firewire 7200rpm external drive, I'm assuming if these two steps are taken, Im in the clear. After all, the laptop is a 3.2 ghz.
thanks for any suggestions you may have.
 
first off, what are you talking about bus levels? do you mean a hardware buffer size set a 1024?
a rule of thumb...when recording, keep your buffer size as low as you can get it without hearing any pops or glitches or getting errors. And when playing back set your buffers as high as you can without getting any noitceable delay.
You do know that the Mbox has a no latancy monitor knob on the front of it for recording, right? This allows you to listen to the input so that you don't get any delay in monitoring. If you only are monitoring a few tracks at a time with no plugins, increasing your memory won't matter.
My buffer size is always set at 256. Works well for me and my AMD 64 w/ 1GB of RAM. Of course, during mixing if I have to bump it up, I will.
 
bennychico11 said:
first off, what are you talking about bus levels? do you mean a hardware buffer size set a 1024?
a rule of thumb...when recording, keep your buffer size as low as you can get it without hearing any pops or glitches or getting errors. And when playing back set your buffers as high as you can without getting any noitceable delay.
You do know that the Mbox has a no latancy monitor knob on the front of it for recording, right? This allows you to listen to the input so that you don't get any delay in monitoring. If you only are monitoring a few tracks at a time with no plugins, increasing your memory won't matter.
My buffer size is always set at 256. Works well for me and my AMD 64 w/ 1GB of RAM. Of course, during mixing if I have to bump it up, I will.
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Yea i know about the knob and the buffer size decreasing results in less latency, but i can only record at 1024 dude, thats what i was posting about. I get errors anything below, so my question was..
Will more ram and/or an extern. firewire drive help?
 
well, whether you get an internal or external drive won't matter....but Digi recommends that you have all your audio/session files on a separate drive than your OS/PT software.
increasing RAM never hurts anything, but I doubt that's your major problem. Definitely do the drive thing...i just noticed you're using a laptop? Which kind, which processor and what speed of hard drive?
 
bennychico11 said:
well, whether you get an internal or external drive won't matter....but Digi recommends that you have all your audio/session files on a separate drive than your OS/PT software.
increasing RAM never hurts anything, but I doubt that's your major problem. Definitely do the drive thing...i just noticed you're using a laptop? Which kind, which processor and what speed of hard drive?
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Its an inspiron 5160 w/ 3.2 Ghz P4. It's not saying the speed of the hard drive, atleast i think it isnt. This long list is from pc wizard (specs for hd):


General Information :
Disk Type : Hard Disk
Peripheral Type : ATA
Model : IC25N060ATMR04-0
Free Space : 49%

Drive Information :
Volume Name : Unspecified
Serial Number : 5032-490E
Files Name : 255 caractères
File Management : NTFS
Volume is Compressed : No
Case Sensitive Search : Yes
Preserves Filename Case : Yes
Unicode Filenames : Yes
Access Control List : Yes
Named Streams : Yes
Object Identifiers : Yes
Reparse Points : Yes
Sparse Files : Yes
User Disk Quotas : Yes
Individual File Compression : Yes
Encryption : No
Share : No

Logical Features :
Sectors per Cluster : 8
Bytes per Sector : 512
Cluster size : 4 KB
Free Clusters : 6778249
Total Clusters : 13719509

Physical Features :
Cylinders : 7296
Heads : 255
Sectors per Track : 63
Bytes per Sector : 512
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Thats alot of fuckin numbers, not sure what most of them mean.... hey... Hard drives have cylinders and heads???? :eek:
 
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