more mixing in scope

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:11 am

hi guys - in this thread

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=1&10

it's recommended that it's better to mix in scope than in logic / cubase. To do this I'm routing each stereo track in my tune to a different logic output and then have routed each logic output to an stm4896 input.

Thing is I'm getting glitches and occasional stops in logic(5.5 on winXP - tuned for audio) when moving other windows around while playing which have for the most part been fixed by setting the process buffer range in the logic asio settings to jumbo..

I wonder how much RAM you guys would recommend to do this sort of thing? currently I have 1GB

Cheers

Andrew

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:24 am

Try running Logic in AboveNormal or High priority. You can do this thru the Task Manager, or automate it with a batchfile containing a line similar to "start /abovenormal c:path_to_logiclogic.exe" (replace /abovenormal with /high to have it run at High priority.)

I had it working fine with 512Mb of RAM, so 1Gb should be plenty.

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:50 am

thanks for that -

I've increased the priority to above normal and logic seems to glitch even less now.

Would like it to happen automatically tho,
where should i put that script stuff?

thanks again

Andrew

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:21 am

Just create a file (with notepad or any other text editor) called for example Logic.bat containing that one line I wrote up there. You can put it anywhere, I guess the best place would be wherever you installed Logic, but anywhere is fine really. Then you just create a shortcut to the .bat file and start Logic with that (you can change the icon to Logic's icon in the right-click menu.)

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:03 am

just to be sure: is you pc set up with priority to background services instead of programs? If it's not it will cause glitches (at least in Cubase SX it does)

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:12 am

yes mr snake, thanks,

I've got all the customisations from http://www.musicxp.net on me machine

Cheers

Andrew

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:23 am

Also take a look at Ars Technica's guide on XP Tweaking, not all of their tips apply to DAWs, but some of them are pretty nice (like the IRQ priority tweak.) It's here:

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars