The DAW Dream Machine

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I want the most powerful PC Based DAW I can get but I am not sure what exactly to get.

I currently have a 1Ghz Athlon running on an ASUS A7v MOBO with onboard Promise IDE Controllers using ATA 100 7200 RPM drives and My Com still chokes. Granted, I am playing back songs with at least 30 audio tracks with effects on each track. I am not using WDM drivers because I am running Windows ME. I use Vegas and Sonar software.

Should I go dual Processors? Should I switch to Windows 2000? Should I use DDR or Rambus? Should I use a RAID or FIREWIRE harddrives?

Kaos
 
Hmm, I wonder why my posts keep dissapearing...

Anyway. Is it the HDD throughput or CPU that is the bottleneck? Switch to W2k in any case though:) I haven't heard any success stories from ME users yet.

W2k, dual PIII, +512MB RAM and RAID 0+1 would make for a killer machine but do you need it? What does e.g. diskbench say about your setup?

Maybe you do need to get the mother of all DAWs but make sure that you really need it. Configuration can make more of a difference than a new 'puter.
 
The magical disappearing post syndrome , eh? Keep a close eye all.:p


Better see the dragon,
T.:cool:
 
Disappearing posts ? That would explain an issue I brought up in the Visitor's Feedback forum. What happens exactly ? You submit your post and it doesn't appear ? Sorry, I'm digressing here.

Kaos, have you looked at the latest ProRec DAW ? Pete knows his shit.
 
I am pretty sure that the bottle neck is the CPU. I don't start to have drop out until I add a certain amount of Reverb. I try to keep mixes as dry as I can but you have to do what you have to do. Also, I have been using Dave Brown's audioware lately. I think his plug ins might use more CPU power than the Sonic Foundry stuff.

Why is Windows 2000 so much better for multi-track recording than Windows ME?

Thanks for the help,

Kaos
 
Impressive. A 1GHz Athlon should be able to handle anything you throw at it. W2k is better at anything, IMHO. Better resource handling and stability. Try it. I doubt that you'll go back to ME.

Maybe dual processors will help your problem but it's a pretty expensive try. Try another Recording SW and see if it works better.
 
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