Waves, Vegas & Wavlab

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I've been multi tracking in Vegas, but during mixing using waves effects is eating up a lot of processor power and I can't run more than 3-6 different waves fx before I start gapping during playback. I only have a 500mhz pentium 3 processor. I've heard that waves slows Vegas down,(I don't have this problem with SF Fx). Would it help if I started tracking and mixing in Wavlab instead. I've never used the multi tracking capabilities since I upgraded to 3.0. Is Wavelab as easy to use as Vegas??
 
Waves Plugs are CPU Hogs and a 500 Mhz. system is a little slow for these or some plugs.
You can always bouce the track with the desired effect and free up a track for a new plug.
 
Yup. It's not likely that you will find any difference using Wavelab. The problem are the Waves plugins themselves and the fact that your system is a little on the slow side.

How much memory do you have installed. It's possible that some more memory might help - particularly if you only have 128 meg or so.
 
Memory will do little to nothing in this case. When I added another 128MB or RAM to my system it did nothing for the audio applications. I received other benefits from it, but not for audio. You need more CPU cycles to run todays higher powered plugin's. I wouldn't think about trying to mix on a computer without at lease a 1GHz CPU.

Also, you will take a huge performance hit at 48KHz sampling rates. Also, make sure you are using a seperate hard drive for your audio then what your OS and application is running on.

Good luck.

Ed
 
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