What's your CPU ?

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Just curious what kind of computer's people are using with Reaper, and how many tracks they use without problems, how many plug in's, etc.

I have:

Athlon 2600+ (2 GHz)
1.5 GB RAM
Project Mix I/O Controller

and my system slows up at around 12 tracks, 1 or 2 reverbs on aux sends, and with 10 or so other EQ's and comp's running.
 
Most of my songs don't have more than 3 tracks, but I think the most I've done was like 10 separate tracks. If I use more than 5 or so reverbs (GlaceVerb) then it gets slow and I have to render some tracks.

AMD Athlon 1.1GHz
512MB DDR RAM
80GB 7200RPM Western Digital Hard drive
M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 interface

My computer is pretty ancient and recording in other software can be tedious but Reaper is really lightweight. It's only when adding a lot of effects that my computer starts getting sluggish.

But other than that it runs real smooth and I get no noticeable latency when monitoring in real-time with effects applied.
 
Hey Danny,


Got any tracks I can hear where you have used Glaceverb ?

I've heard good things about that plug-in.
 
Guitar Sounds great on Luna... what's your signal chain ?
 
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual core 4000+ @ 2.11 Ghz with 2 Gigs of RAM

The most I have done has been 15 tracks with plugins in all of them and havent had any problems so far.
 
Great stuff. I'm an acoustic fingerstylist myself. Familiar with Ed Gerhard? He's got an album called Luna.
 
Athlon X2 6400+ with 4GB RAM

I've mixed 32 tracks with this setup and only had to freeze a few of them.
 
stvnscott said:
Athlon X2 6400+ with 4GB RAM

I've mixed 32 tracks with this setup and only had to freeze a few of them.
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I think I've got a fairly similar hardware setup.

I usually can get several dozen (effects-free) tracks going at once. I haven't really hit a cap yet where it interferes with my recording.

I can run probably half a dozen tracks with effects before I start getting any latency issues. Once latency issues do start it's mostly just a several second buffering delay when I press start and stop.

Although I don't record any new tracks when I have effects going since that really messes up my latency.
 
Toshiba Satellite Laptop
1.5 Ghz Centrino
2 Gigs Ram
I record directly to an external 7200 RPM firewire drive with 32 mb cache. I'm also using 2 Firepods all on the same firewire port as the hard drive and the matching backup hard drive.

So far, I've tracked 14 channels at once without a hickup, typical when doing drums. As far as playback goes, a heavy rock band I'm recording will routinely have 50 channels of audio per song if you count all the guitar layering. 50 channels with about 15 plugins can cause some noticeable latency, if I try to record with that many channels and all the plugins on, I will max out my cpu and get drop outs, pops, clicks, etc...

I haven't maxed out to the point where I couln't render yet.
 
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I'm running a Q6700 with 4GB RAM on WinXP. I haven't maxed it out yet, but I have been recording 16 mics at 96kHz/24bit while playing back 4 other tracks and haven't gagged it yet.

When I built the box, I roamed the PreSonus forums (FireStudio 2626 and DigiMax FS are my audio interface/preamps) and picked out all the hardware based on known-goods and haven't had a problem.

-Wes
 
AndrewClaycomb said:
I haven't maxed out to the point where I couln't render yet.
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I've had some problems with rendering a few iterations ago. But more recent versions have all been pretty good about buffering and pacing rendering so that nothing is lost (though it may take a while.)
 
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