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Post by Torkin on Feb 18, 2008 18:03:49 GMT -5
So I am doing an orchestra project in Qbase SX. I have currently 5 tracks, and when i push play it plays them all ok and no prob but after 2 secs it takes a pause (just no sound) and then resumes for 0,5 secs and then a pause and so on.... I am trying to figure out what is wrong here, but maybe someone can give me advice on this? I indeed have a PC that SHOULD handle 5 tracks ...
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Post by Joel Wanasek on Feb 18, 2008 21:23:34 GMT -5
does the cpu meter spike?
Are u using a legitimate or cracked version?
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Post by Torkin on Feb 19, 2008 9:04:03 GMT -5
nope the cpu meter is okey, and i use an LE version that came with me preamp.
maybe it is the sound card? it is a sound card mounted on my motherboard. And those tracks i am playing are all in midi. It seems that this is because some part of the PC gets overloaded, cause if I play 2-3 tracks together nothing bad happens. When I put all 5 together these pauses start to come in.
Maybe I should declare myself a FAIL at life and go back to tracktion, at least that shit worked well
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Post by Torkin on Feb 19, 2008 9:55:39 GMT -5
Bah it IS the cpu meter... But what a hell i have a pentium 4 2,8 ghz processor, how come it cant handle this? And how can I fix this ?
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Post by diego on Feb 19, 2008 14:35:33 GMT -5
My advaice is... Flex more to cubase and get Finale 2008... You can write orchestral stuff and more cause it comes with Garritan sound player or something and it is said to be great... MY professors at university use that...
Hope this help.
Diego.
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Post by Torkin on Feb 19, 2008 17:17:52 GMT -5
Garritan personal orchestra, yeah im fucking around with that. But upgrading cubase wont really fix this vst overload. Heck I have a new laptop coming in 2 months, I can wait but there must be some explanation to why I cant run 4 midi tracks with VSTs... Its pathetic
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Post by Torkin on Feb 20, 2008 9:58:51 GMT -5
Call me double poster but I just had to let you people know. I got a trial version of Reaper, and, well, what took 80% of cpu on cubase takes 25% tops there. So ill stick to it for a while
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Post by steve-O on Mar 27, 2008 17:14:29 GMT -5
I also use Garritan Personal Orchestra through Cubase, so if you have any questions I can probably help out.
Garritan loads entirely into memory (unless you're using the Direct-From-Disk mode, which you shouldn't be because it makes matters worse). You definitely have enough processing power to pull a full orchestra loaded in Garritan, so what you should look at is your RAM. Press CRTL+ALT+DELETE on your keyboard to get to the task manager (assuming you're in Windows, not MAC OS or something...) and check the commit charge (toward the bottom). That should give you an estimate of how much RAM you're using (out of how much you have in your computer).
You're going to need a lot, and I mean a LOT (close to a gigabyte) to load more than 8 patches or so. Close your browser, and any unnecessary shit when you use Cubase. A browser can use 40Mb of RAM or more by itself. Close your anti-virus, any IM clients, any games or anything else that sucks RAM, and you should be able to have more success. I'm on a very shitty computer right now and I can load most of an orchestra at once without dropouts.
Also, when you're rendering from Cubase (say, mixing down to an MP3), render at 1x play speed, because it renders a lot slower and you'll have a lot fewer dropouts in your audio output.
If you don't have a Gig of RAM in your computer, minimum, then you'll probably need to get on top of that. I have about 3/4 of a gig (not my computer, I'm stuck with my sisters right now) and I can't quite load a full orchestra without dropouts.
I can however load half at a time and combine the audio mixdowns in Cubase, you might try that as well. Also, unless you need the keyswitching functionality of a particular instrument (say, your violin needs to go from sustained alternating strokes to pizzicato) then just load the "solo" patch for that instrument. It's a lot less sample memory intensive.
Also, avoid the Garritan Ambience reverb until you're ready to render. Use the Cubase roomworks (if you have SX) or someother less CPU intensive reverb until you're ready to render out to MP3.
I'm an old Tracktion user myself but I haven't tried Reaper. I hope it works for you because I can't really help you there, haha.
-Steve-0
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Post by Torkin on Mar 28, 2008 11:08:46 GMT -5
Thanks for clearing it up to me man. I have one gig ram, but my problem is that this PC is fucked... If you shake it a bit you can hear a lot of rattling coming out of it, its basically falling apart. I remember the times when this system was one of the best builds, back when I was a computah NERD, but now i can be arsed to clean the pc up. Luckily I have a laptop on the way so Ill just throw this one out of a 10th store window. or not
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Post by pcsmall on Mar 28, 2008 11:18:13 GMT -5
hey if you do drop it out a window then be sure to post some before and after pics
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Post by gunpointlecture on May 14, 2009 0:06:36 GMT -5
I really really like reaper, I even paid for the commercial license without even doing pro projects with it. I have a shitty Gateway laptop running centrino duo, XP, 3.5 Gigs ram, and I can run 15-20 tracks of .wav audio plus 9-10 VSTi all with effects like reverb/delay/chorus/compression and some master track effects no problem. I installed it on a 8gig thumb drive with a portable version of Sound Forge and a portable version of Vegas, so no matter where I go, I have a audio/video computer studio anywhere I go.
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Post by thenotshredder on May 14, 2009 7:58:28 GMT -5
Suggestion: fuck Finale. Sibelius pwns it, by all accounts I've heard (I've only dabbled in LE versions of both, I'm by no means a power user).
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Post by Torkin on May 14, 2009 15:12:11 GMT -5
reaper for the motherflying cockexterminating win
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