Adobe Audition 3 hardware problems

[ScroogeMcDuck]

Hi everyone!

I have this problem: When I try to use the mastering effect the same time as the track is playing the sounds f***s up and I almost can't hear anything. I know it is because of a performance lack in my hardware. But I don't know what I must do because I don't know if it is CPU or RAM that is the problem. When I lower the sampling rate it works quite fine but then the sound quality is too bad!

I know my computer sux, here is the stats:

Intel Celeron
CPU 2.40 GHz
224 MB RAM

I think Auditon once said something about that it needed more CPU but I am not sure. But I don't understand since I have enough CPU according to the system requirements..

Plzzzz help anyone, I don't know what to do, and I am a complete n00b! Yes, I admit it :-P Should I buy more RAM? Ore is a new CPU needed??

Thanks!
SMD

[tatteredstudios]

You are WAY short on RAM...I use 2 gigs, as do most of us...You can get by well with 1 gig, but you'll have to freeze your tracks..224 BARELY can run just windows. You should be ok with your processor, tho. Just upgrade your Ram to at least 1 gig....Good Luck.

[ScroogeMcDuck]

Originally Posted by tatteredstudios

You are WAY short on RAM...I use 2 gigs, as do most of us...You can get by well with 1 gig, but you'll have to freeze your tracks..224 BARELY can run just windows. You should be ok with your processor, tho. Just upgrade your Ram to at least 1 gig....Good Luck.

Thanks for your answer! I will upgrade to 2 GB while I'm at it! But I just don't understand why it said that "The mastering feature depends on CPU, and will possibly not work well". That was my version of the message since I don't remember how it said (it doesn't say it anymore).

[acoustic]

I had this prob when I first hooked up tatteredstudios Is tracking you right
after I got my ram well mine works real good I do have 3.33 cpu


acoustic

[ScroogeMcDuck]

Originally Posted by acoustic

I had this prob when I first hooked up tatteredstudios Is tracking you right
after I got my ram well mine works real good I do have 3.33 cpu


acoustic

OK thanks for the help both of you!

SMD

[adorian]

Look at the manual and see if you can increase the latency, usually bumping latency during mixing will give you more room to add effects as it lessens the toll on your hardware.

[ScroogeMcDuck]

I have now inserted 2 GB RAM into my computer and a lot of things are better now. But there is still problems in Audition. I still get this message about missing CPU, and the program lacks all the time (sometimes Audition even freezes completely) when I try using effects.

Here is the message:


I don't understand what to do with the latency thing, and the manual says nothing about it. My processor is 2.40 GHz.

Does anybody know a solution? I'm really stuck!
Thanks

[tatteredstudios]

I'm pretty sure that is just a generic warning, just check the "don't display this message in the future " box and go for it...there are a lot of vst's that are cpu hogs, when you run into performance issues, freeze the track...

this issue and others with Audition are what caused me to switch to Cubase SX3, the best thing I've done as far as software goes...it really is bulletproof....good luck

[ScroogeMcDuck]

Originally Posted by tatteredstudios

I'm pretty sure that is just a generic warning, just check the "don't display this message in the future " box and go for it...there are a lot of vst's that are cpu hogs, when you run into performance issues, freeze the track...

this issue and others with Audition are what caused me to switch to Cubase SX3, the best thing I've done as far as software goes...it really is bulletproof....good luck

Ok thanks, I don't know why but it works fine now! Maybe another application was using cpu in the background, I don't know :-P

The reason I use Audition a lot is that I use Reason 4 as my primary producing software, and you can't record into Reason directly as you can in Cubase SX3. So i record vocals/analog instruments in Audition..

Thanks for the help..
SMD

[acoustic]

McDuck ------- I had that prob ---- with some vst effects I got off the net----
they would load onto your processes then when you were done they would not stop in the
processes window----------- so every time I would use the effect
another one would be in processes after I got about 4 or 5 of them running at once I got that
cpu notice -----------well I opened task manager and started ending task on all thoes cloned effects --------Exe,s that stoped it at once ------- so with thoes bad effects I had to manual end task every time ----so I got rid of them and got some good vst,s --------that my story-------- acoustic