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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:13 pm
by braincell
It's ok as long as I don't use the firewire and Ambience. All peripherals connect through the PCI bus ultimately. I can not change the IRQ settings on this computer.
VSTi never have any such problem. Only Scope cards have this total meltdown. It's frustrating let me tell you. I have been going through this for years. The older computer with the new cards works better. I can use the Ambience on that. I haven't tried the firewire on that one because it doesn't have a firewire port. This computer is faster and the firewire drive is faster but it is not a good computer for Scope. This is hell I tell you! I want to plug in my hardware and have it work period. I have 4 Creamware and Scope cards. I don't need that many but I had to buy extra cards to replace the type I cards because of PCI overflow problems. This is a nightmare on and off for a decade.
This is how my old computer is configured. It took a really long time to figure this out and it is the only way it would work:
Slot 1 IRQ5
Slot 2 Auto
Slot 3,4 IRQ 5
Slot 5,6 Auto
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:23 pm
by siriusbliss
braincell wrote:It's ok as long as I don't use the firewire and Ambience. All peripherals connect through the PCI bus ultimately. I can not change the IRQ settings on this computer.
VSTi never have any such problem. Only Scope cards have this total meltdown. It's frustrating let me tell you. I have been going through this for years. The older computer with the new cards works better. I can use the Ambience on that. I haven't tried the firewire on that one because it doesn't have a firewire port. This computer is faster and the firewire drive is faster but it is not a good computer for Scope. This is hell I tell you! I want to plug in my hardware and have it work period. I have 4 Creamware and Scope cards. I don't need that many but I had to buy extra cards to replace the type I cards because of PCI overflow problems. This is a nightmare on and off for a decade.
This is how my old computer is configured. It took a really long time to figure this out and it is the only way it would work:
Slot 1 IRQ5
Slot 2 Auto
Slot 3,4 IRQ 5
Slot 5,6 Auto
So, on my current system I let the system choose the interrupts, and with 3 cards I never get DSP overload. However, on my older Asus I had to manually assign the IRQs to the same number in order to force the system to adopt other numbers for other hardware. Both systems worked, so unless you haven't already tried swapping one older card with one newer card (i.e two and two in both your computers), switching the ordering of cards, making one of the other cards the 'main' card in the ini ordering, or even checked things like RAM or video cards (bus burden), then I can't tell what's going on.
You know, the usual stuff we've put up with for the past decade.
Ultimately I really haven't had problems the past 6 or so years.
How old a system, and what is the motherboard?
Greg
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:35 pm
by braincell
This is really a cheap computer. I was going to use it because it is faster. It is perfectly fine for Cubase and VSTi. It's not going to work the way I hoped I promise you. I have been through all the IRQ and card swapping tricks countless times on the other computer like I said. That is why I wrote down the BIOS settings. The thing is, these things should never ever happen. You should buy it, install it and boom it works and make music.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:08 am
by garyb
siriusbliss's computer worked that way....(and still does, i hope
)
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:15 am
by braincell
siriusbliss wrote:
on my older Asus I had to manually assign the IRQs to the same number in order to force the system to adopt other numbers for other hardware.
Greg
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:49 am
by siriusbliss
garyb wrote:siriusbliss's computer worked that way....(and still does, i hope
)
yes, it's still cranking along just fine, thank you.
Greg
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:50 am
by siriusbliss
braincell wrote:This is really a cheap computer. I was going to use it because it is faster. It is perfectly fine for Cubase and VSTi. It's not going to work the way I hoped I promise you. I have been through all the IRQ and card swapping tricks countless times on the other computer like I said. That is why I wrote down the BIOS settings. The thing is, these things should never ever happen. You should buy it, install it and boom it works and make music.
After almost 30 years in the engineering field, I can assure you that rarely does anything just work the first time
Greg
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:39 am
by Neutron
sell them. they frustrate you too much. then get some vsti and go join KVR forums.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:22 pm
by braincell
I'm sorry but your statement was totally polemic.
DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
Thanks
.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:32 pm
by garyb
woah, James Dean.....