yes 256!

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nice, i just found out my brothers computer, (the one i will record on) has 256 somethin (don't know the proper term) of ram. thats good right?
 
I will assume you mean 256 MB (megabites) of RAM. This is very good. I am using 96 MB right now. i think the general opinion of the board is a minimum of 64 MB but preferably 128MB, so 256 will work great. But other factors will include the quality of the soundcard and speed of the harddrive at the top of the list. Mics and instruments should also be looked at, as the best setup in the world wont make a Radio Shack mic sound good (believe me, I gave up tryin). Maybe post what else u have and we can give a few opinions and suggestions.
 
256 is for the ram, random access memory. And ya, thats lots. One or two years ago 32 was the shit. Today 64mb is pretty much the lowest you will want to go. Anything over 128mb is cozy, and for recording more is better. RAM is kind of like the "playing field" of a software program. The bigger the number the more room the program has to move about without tripping into itself. Man, that was a lame analogy but I can't think of a better one.
 
cool! he says he has a pentium III 450 (again don't know the proper term), 13 gig (hey i knew that one) i don't know the speed though, a dman pci sound card, an art tube pre, and a sm 57 mic. i heard the more programs (like video games) you have on your hard drive the more chance it'll screw up when recording. is this true? i'm hoping i can get a solid recording out of that system. even, that wasn't to bad of an analogy. i got the point.
 
System wise you are all set (assuming it is not a packard bell). 13 gigs of storage will give you heaps of room while you diddle with learning and all of that. I may be off my rocker (it happens) but as long as you have free space on the 13 gig hard drive then it won't really effect the performance having a few games and whatnot in there. Hard drive is like the waiting dock and RAM is the playing field. Once you open a program it spills into the RAM. With 256mb the software will be happy. From what I understand the only time things get sticky is when you have very little RAM while running a hot program because it sometimes wants to tap into the hard drive for backup space. Bla bla bla, bottom line is with the 256 life is good. Go download the N-tracks everyone raves about. The demo is pretty much a full service deal and only costs 25 bucks. Really sweet multitrack program for the buck. It is plenty of program for the learning curve.
 
another good idea is to go to start/run/and type "msconfig" in the dialog box.. then choose the start up tab and uncheck all the programs that you dont need to boot up when you computer starts..that should be pretty much all of them except for systray and maybe one other.. if something stops working right , just go back and by process of elimination find the essential programs you need to run your computer properly.. once you do this there is no need for ctrl+alt+delete anymore.. this is a really good tip , because my compaq sucked but then after i unchecked a few boxes i was able to run twice as many tracks ( 14 w/o effects ) before any drop outs or before the lag became unbearable..

ps..my computer is a amd k6 300 mmx with 60 megs of ram..

- eddie -
 
My computer has 2 mini-bites of RAM, a 6 hertz processor, and a hand crank on the side.
Is that good?
I'm thinking of upgrading to solar power so I don't have to constantly crank this thing.
 
almost have you beat: 1 meg, 8 mhz
Just enough power to realtime monitor the midi system, and control cakewalk remotely (among other things)...

Good ol' atari
 
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