Nuc Pc, Anyone got any thoughts? |
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Nuc Pc, Anyone got any thoughts? |
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Aug 11 2019, 11:15 AM |
Hello folks, I'm thinking of upgrading my music laptop. I don't really need a laptop but I don't have room for a second desktop tower. I've come across these and wonder what your thoughts are.
Any advice/opinions gratefully received, thanks. https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/p...s-kits/nuc.html I would likely purchase from HERE something like THIS spec but with 512gb SSD and 32gb ram. I just want to be able to swap it with my laptop, for the record, my laptop only has 3 usb ports and an hdmi out. It needs to come in at around £850 before tax. Thanks in advance of your help, I keep wondering if I'm missing something that is staring me in the face as to why I can't just swap it over, obviously there will be the set up but I'm hoping there is some quick way of cloning the hard drive from one to the other, somehow, maybe Cheers Phil -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 3 2019, 08:25 PM |
SSD is, in some cases, a better upgrade than ram.
Back to "latency". Not sure it is latency that I am sensitive to. I took it a trial of Helix Native before I came away, had to contact support because I tried it in my old rig and nothing but crackles and pops but my time limited was logged. Explained to line six and they gave me an extension. Anyway, I just couldn't handle it, really messing with my head. Used my Helix LT on the same settings and that was the same. With Native, unless you can advise otherwise, I have to switch Reaper to "record monitor". I can't handle that slight delay, I put my LT on the same setting and it was the same. I usually use "direct monitoring" and that is pure real time, is there a way to do this with native? I guess it would be good to have for working with a dry signal but for me that's about it I think. Maybe I didn't need this new rig. Cheers Phil This post has been edited by Phil66: Oct 4 2019, 07:06 AM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 3 2019, 08:57 PM |
hence , back to why I am sorry I did not get mine with thunderbolt Do you really think it would make a huge difference? -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 3 2019, 10:45 PM |
Do you really think it would make a huge difference? what is your reported latency wiith helix plug-in?? This post has been edited by Mertay: Oct 3 2019, 10:46 PM |
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Oct 4 2019, 07:14 AM |
what is your reported latency wiith helix plug-in?? I'm not home until tomorrow, I'll check sometime this weekend. Do any of your devices support thunderbolt? I see from a reply you are getting some lag on your helix plugin? What is your block/buffer/samples setting in reaper? If you can get it down to 32 samples or you should not hear any lag when playing through a plugin. Getting that setting as low as posssible is key. I don't see the original post though, so I don't get what the overall issues are. What's going wrong when you use the helix plugin? It ran perfectly on my laptop which is just a quad i7 16gb ram ssd drive. I don't think so, I use a 2nd gen Scarlett 18i8. I'll have a fiddle with buffer size when I'm home this weekend. It's not the plug in, I get the same issue with the LT if I switch Reaper to "Record monitoring" rather than "record monitoring off" which is the Helix direct to the monitors but I can't see how to use direct monitoring with the plug in. What do you mean, you don't see the original post? Thanks. This post has been edited by Phil66: Oct 4 2019, 07:16 AM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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