Aug 31, 2008 12:57 am Oh yea I run a 6ms latency and record at 24bit 44100. Changing to a higher latency has no effect.
How many tracks till you break your PC's back ??
Posted on Aug 31, 2008 12:20 am
BushmasterM4
Member Since: Nov 13, 2007
I use Tracktion 3 as my DAW and I love the layout and feel of it. Well I recorded 24 tracks today and with only 8 plugins I started to get the stutters. I running Windows XP Pro (32Bit), with an AMD X2-4800 cpu (dual core) and 4 gigs of memory. My hard drives are all 7200rpm WD. And all inessential processes are removed from Windows. With Tracktion 2 (the previous version of my DAW), I had a tune with 30 tracks and several plugins on each track and it didnt break a sweat. That was on a single core AMD-3800 with 2 gigs. This is the first time with Tracktion 3 Ive had over say 16 Tracks. So, I may go back to Tracktion 2 for big projects or I may jump ship. So tell me what you use as a DAW, and what you PC specs are, and a rough track/vst count for that Daw/PC. Ive read Cubase is very cpu friendly, but I would rather hear it from actual users. ProTools is out of the question. Thanks
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Aug 31, 2008 12:57 am Oh yea I run a 6ms latency and record at 24bit 44100. Changing to a higher latency has no effect.
Aug 31, 2008 02:34 am I don't know yet, haven't hit the limit. My biggest project I've done on the new computer is about 24 tracks with
6 Guitar Rig 3 running
6 compressors
2 Voxengo Voxformers
2 Perfect Space Reverbs (convolution)
4 Reverb
1 VC64 compressor/EQ
3 Gates
9 stereo busses
EQ's on most of the tracks (sonar builtin's)
2 Izotope Ozone 1 on drum buss, 1 on
master
I had a couple modulation effects on but took them off.
I record @ 32bit FP, of course the card only goes to 24bit
MAudio Delta44 @6ms ASIO
This one definitley would have brought my old computer to it's knee's. My current PC is an HP Pavilion Q6600 Quad w/3GB memory, Vista 32 bit and it's really not breaking a sweat with the above.
Dan
Aug 31, 2008 08:16 am im doing a song atm and so far im up to 38.
obviously some of those are bits n pieces but, yeah ive got 30 playing at once all the time and still ive had no hicups.
though i still havent put any compression or anything on it yet, just a bit of verb on drums on an FX track and eq. on everything.
im trying t see how far i can push it.
I dont know if the vst performance meter comes into play in this circumstance but its hardly moved at all.
Im using an I mac with 2 gig ram. Cubase 4 and a tascam US1641. Im also using EZDrummer and my latency is on 512. So far its working a treat.
Aug 31, 2008 04:08 pm I was running (my PC F'ed it self already) 3.0ghz CPU; 4gb RAM; 250gb HDD @10,000 rpm; Windows XP 32-bit; Nuendo 3; and I could record 16 tracks at once at 96k 24bit and it worked fine. I later added some reverb to a few of the track from Waves and it still ran smooth. Didn't go any further than that cause that's when it crashed when I was playing Half Life 2. :(
I miss Arty.
Aug 31, 2008 05:05 pm Just as a point of reference here.
On my very old studio box which ran a PIII 667 Coppermine chip with only 768 meg of ram I could stack up approx 50 tracks without a lot of problem.
It is really in knowing when to apply the effects to the track destructively and basic track management which will keep the beast's running smoothly. With the newest box I have run some mixes that were 70+ track count with processing and some software synthes. No problems here at 3.2ghz with 4 gig of ram.
Again, it all falls on track management.
Sep 01, 2008 08:42 am I dun'no... I haven't lost it yet, but since I've worked the bugs out of the new compy, I haven't been doing alot of mix-intensive recording . I did do one 16/44.1 workup of a song that we'll be re-recording at a higher resolution later this month . That got up to 25 tracks with 8 sub busses, eqs on every track, and compressors on about half . The split-level cpu meter was bouncing between 35-40% . No dropouts yet, but all this mix taught me was to record at a higher resolution for songs with track counts in excess of 12, as things started to sound a bit 'washed out', for lack of a better term .
3800+ Athalon Dual Core w/4gig of RAM... two Delta44s, and an AP24/96 for soundcards .
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