cubase le 4 hogging cpu!!!

[brandondrury]

what's a dual boot system?

A dual boot system has two Operating Systems installed. When you turn your computer on you choose your "normal" operating system with email, games, etc on it. On the 2nd Operating System you have nothing but recording stuff. It is much more reliable, faster, and cleaner.

Brandon

[richiebee]

kredd... firstly, you need to understand the power required to run audio applications. They require precise timing and can take a lot of resources to achieve it. Dedicate your computer to it. If you want to run a server, chat with your friends, etc, do it on another machine.

Okay, secondly, when was the last time you defragged your hard drives? Oh, and what speed are they? If they're anything under 7200rpm, that could be a source of trouble.

Thirdly, what is your interface audio buffer set at? Often crackles can be attributed to a really low buffer (which gives you lower latency but that requires a lot of processing power).

Loading up 200-300 wav's is not an economical way to use any DAW. I don't think this is the cause of your problem, but you might want to look into alternative ways of working in the future.

[kredd]

hey richiebee, i do understand the power required. like i said i've been using this same setup for close to a year now and have had no problems. in a perfect world i would have a dedicated machine

not sure about the harddrive speed, its an external firewire drive, and i do believe it is 7200rpm but can't say for sure. and i would have to say its about time for a defrag, tho.

latency is set at 16.0ms. nothing is crackling...it was just hogging cpu and locking up.

the 200-300 hundred .wavs aren't separate files, that's just the result of chopping up and lining up each kick, snare, toms and OH tracks.

like i said, i cleaned up some things in the session and things are back to normal and running fine.

thanks again.

[rorry]

a dual boot system is one that has 'dual operating systems' eg. XP and XP or Xp and Vista or any combination you can think of. You can even have a quad boot sytem.
And yes you can do it on a dell. dell is just a brand that puts parts together and sells em to you.
oh and MPDSR422 sata drivers are a great idea if you have sata a sata hard drive.
be sure to enable sata in the bios too.
cheers

[MPDSR422]

I can't find instructions for setting up a dual boot system of XP and XP. Is that Kosher? Microsoft website is chock full of instructions to dual Xp with NT or Linux or whatever, but not XP. Any website you know I might be able to get the info on how to proceed?
MPDSR422

[MetalGod]

Check this one out:

Creating a Dual Boot XP Installation - Computer Based - Home Recording Studio Help

Basically it's not much different from setting up a multiboot system with XP and NT, you just need a second partition where you install the second copy of XP, and then edit the bootloader file.

Best of luck.
MetalGod

[MPDSR422]

Originally Posted by MPDSR422

I can't find instructions for setting up a dual boot system of XP and XP. Is that Kosher? Microsoft website is chock full of instructions to dual Xp with NT or Linux or whatever, but not XP. Any website you know I might be able to get the info on how to proceed?
MPDSR422

Took the easiest path. I deleted the Cubase from the drive along with all the VSTs and did a clean reload and cured all pops and crackles. I can only assume something got corrupted and dicked everything else up. No worries now. CPU fine with full use of VSTs.
MPDSR422

[jamie78]

Originally Posted by kredd

what's a dual boot system? can i do that will a dell machine?

well, whatever was pissing cubase off has left the building. i removed some vsts i never ever use and clean up some inserts and group channels that were superfluous. didn't seem like a did a whole lot but things are back to normal. bout to post a mix for you guys to bash!!!

I've had the same problem, with the group channels. I was working a project and I had to remove the group channels to get the audio to play back smoothly.
Does anyone run Cubase essentials? Are they as many problems with that?

[MPDSR422]

Spoke too soon. As soon as I loaded Proteus all went to crap again. I can use BFD for drums but not Proteus for strings n things. Back to sucking!

[MetalDave]

Try going here Speeding Up Windows there are several reasons why this is now happening and it wasn't happeneing before and none of them have anything to do with settings in the software you are using for recording. Most of your problem has been addressed.... You should only use your recording rig for recording. Defragging is not a bad idea but if all you do is record on a machine, you will hardly ever need to defrag. To install a dual boot you will either need 2 hard drives or you will have to partition your hard drive into 2 logical hard drives. Dedicate one to recording. and one for "playing on". This does take more space but will improve your PCs' recording ability. Using 2 hard drives works good too because you can record on one and run windows on the other still using the bigger one for "playing" on. also using it to store files on and record on also while you are booted on the smaller one. I am on my PC I have 3 OS's on Windows Vista home premium, Windows XP Home and Ubuntu by linux. I have to say that so far Windows XP Pro works best for recording. I like windows XP Pro X64 for doing video. Look at your computer as a highway. even though it is fast, you have too many lanes being used so the recording cant get through the 2 or 3 lanes left. This is why your processor is working overtime. you have choked your 6 lane highway down to 2 lanes. It would be better to uninstall some programs rather than just turn them off as they are still plugging the highway when you aren't using them. After uninstalling all you should, defrag the hard drive even if you have just done it before....