On the topic of recording

krip · Post by **krip** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:45 am

How come when I have 40-50% cpu usage (cubase 5 r-whatever, PIII gig), and a nice stack of audio tracks in cubase. Then I'd want to record audio played back from a pulsar synth rerouted into cubase, the system doesn't cut it and I get pops and clicks which are obviously also recorded into the new audio segment. I can solve this by soloing the midi track I want played back, then the cpu doesn't lag so much. It would sure be nice though to be able to hear the entire piece so I can do "live tweaking" on the recording.

I recently installed a newer cubase, during install it said something about HD DMA transfer mode!? what is it, how do I change this setting from outside the cubase installation does it have anything to do with this?

cheers Ira

LHong · Post by **LHong** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 8:26 pm

You can set harddrive DMA from the system property.
To do: Right-click on My Computer, Disk Drive, Property, setting, DMA. Then Re-Start system.

krip · Post by **krip** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 1:44 am

The DMA is already set but this doesn't help too much. If cubase has to process any audio itself it clicks and those clicks are rerouted into the recording. I'm looking for a fix/workaround but that would allow me to record while playing back the whole piece.

I really need to be able to do this properly... my whole music style is at stake

LHong · Post by **LHong** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 9:23 am

There are a few things can improve the system perfomance as follows:
1> Better CPU like 1.4~2Ghz
2> More memory like 1Gb+
3> Dedicated harddrive for Play/Rec audio ONLY. Use Fast SCSI or UATA100-7,200RPM
4> Remove startup by windows: START, RUN, mscofig, un-check the startup (everything)
5> Reduce the min/maxVcache setting in system.ini. Creamware recommends about 25% of total installed-RAM, try it about 10~15%.
6> Cleanup some other programs, which are not related to the audio such as MS-Office, video-tools or the networking (Remove everything, this taxes to the system resource).
7> Remove the hardware, which is not related to the audio like modem, network-card, other soundcard, etc.
8> Clean-up the OS, try 98lite, for example.

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