System recommendations for rock solid performance

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In Cake 9 I often get a situation where even a simple MIDI file "skips" when playback is started - like something happens before or after the first beat that causes playback to hesitate and then jump to catch up. Nothing complicated going on, either - a simple side stick 4 count can cause this.

I've been using Cakewalk forever performance seems to come and go at random - I've gotten a half dozen audio tracks to work fine on a P90, and had MIDI skip on a 500 MHz Celeron, etc.

I'm using an Event Gina, Win 98SE, and a MidiMan 2x2 USB midi adapter at present.

Anyone getting rock solid audio/midi from Cakewalk (no skips, jumps, sync problems, lost audio, etc.)? Either my system sucks or there's some goofy config problem.

Thanks for opinions/ideas,

Mr. X
 
I curious about the mix of Win98 and USB gear. Win98 ain't doin that good handling USB peripheral. Not even the SE... just curious...
 
I was thinking the USB could part of it, although the USB MIDI port is a recent addition. I've got a powered USB hub and everything except a Tascam PS5 has worked.

Have you had better luck with Win2K/XP?
 
a guy i engineer for from time to time has a m-audio delta (i think) and a midiman 2x2 usb using a sony viao desktop that is 1.5ghz or so.

he has problems because the midiman is causing some kind of funky loop back. that is what is causing the sputters on his system.

the midiman has a button on it that says whether the output is used as a midi thru and out or just an out.
 
i use the midiman usb 1X1 with a PIV 2.4 gig/ win XP/ Sonar 2.0 and no problems. there were no midi problems with an AMD system either.

stupid question, but do you have the latest driver from midiman?

i second the opinion to move up to win xp. not sure if all of your hardware and software will handle the upgrade but win98 and winxp are completely different animals, of which i highly prefer winxp.
 
Besides raising the latency as Moskus stated, you might try a few other things I use.
I run Win98SE and have no problems at all.

Up date your drivers, as already stated,
Defrag your drive before recording.
Set a permenate Swap File.
Have no less than 256 MB of memory.
Reboot before recording.

Just some simple computer maintenace tips that a lot of folks over look.
I run Sonar on my win98 for five to eight hours at a whack with no problems.

Hope you get it figured out.
 
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