N-Track on HP Pavilions?

[raab]

Is anybody using N-Track on an HP Pavilion? I have an HP from 2001. I'm curious how N-Track would work on the system. I'm recording on 4-tracks and a Roland VS 8-track, and have recorded the mixdowns onto the HP using Musicmatch jukebox. Jukebox has done horrible. I'm just using it to record WAV files, and are all kinds of skips during the Jukebox recording. I don't know if this is Jukebox, or my computer.

I'd like to be able to:
1) Record my mixdowns as WAV files
2) Dump individual tracks onto the computer as WAV files to send to my friends with protools so they can use these tracks on their systems to do further recording & mixing

 

[BentRabbit]

Is anybody using N-Track on an HP Pavilion? I have an HP from 2001. I'm curious how N-Track would work on the system. I'm recording on 4-tracks and a Roland VS 8-track, and have recorded the mixdowns onto the HP using Musicmatch jukebox. Jukebox has done horrible. I'm just using it to record WAV files, and are all kinds of skips during the Jukebox recording. I don't know if this is Jukebox, or my computer.

I'd like to be able to:
1) Record my mixdowns as WAV files
2) Dump individual tracks onto the computer as WAV files to send to my friends with protools so they can use these tracks on their systems to do further recording & mixing

I would say a most definite 'probably'

I'm assuming your system is at least Pentium-based, but you didn't give us any particulars like Hard Drive size or memory amount/processor speeds...

Minimum requirements for N-Track are listed as a Pentium 160 or better, 32 Mb RAM, and a soundcard

Of course, with any DAW, bigger and more is always better...

 

[crankz1]

HP Pavilion zu1175 laptop/ 700Mhz/ 512 RAM/ Hitachi 7200 RPM laptop drive (tweaked to the hilt for DAW only!!!)
SIIG 1394 CardBus Dual - 2-port CardBus-to-1394 FireWire
Western Digital 120 gig 7200 RPM Firewire drive (audio data only)
MOTU828mkII
Works great for remote location tracking and small quick mixes.

Give the demo a try.

 

[Gidge]

Ive been running N-Track on a HP Pavillion 500mhz Celeron for over 5 years.....bumped the ram up to 380MB and added a 2nd hard drive (7200 rpm).....Delta Audiophile 2496 soundcard.......

 

[TimOBrien]

I started out on a Gateway PII-450Mhz with 396Mb Ram and 2 drives.
Could run 30+ tracks of 16bit/44.1khz (no plugs) with N-Track 3.x

It's an excellent package for slower machines but if you get N-4 and have performance problems, I'd ask Flavio to give you the codes to N-Track 3.3 (build 1516 is still available on his site and is exceptionally stable); I'm sure he'd give you a downgrade if you are a registered user...