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Aug 13 2009, 09:25 PM |
n this day and age, average is pretty good for recording - even an avergae PC can record and stream more than enough tracks at once for a very complex recording.
Where you do sometimes run out of power is if you are using a lot of plugins, like soft synths, reverb, effects etc, but there are workarounds such as freezing tracks. Long story short - you should be ok, but if you post your PC specs we'll be able to tell you better! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Aug 13 2009, 10:18 PM |
To me it looks to be on the weak side.
I suggest you try a DAW that's not too memory and CPU consuming, like Reaper (www.reaper.fm) Adding RAM way would be a good idea. And when in your recording program, DAW, don't use more plug-ins that absolutely neccessary. Too many of them hogs resources and will slow or even crash your system. I guess it's doable on your system but you will always have to mind CPU and RAM. Just be careful with the plug ins and which recording program you choose so you run with small size and ones that go easy on the resources. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Aug 13 2009, 10:29 PM |
Already got Reaper. And what is RAM? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM RAM memory is not expensive to upgrade and will let your PC run much faster and handle better complex recording projects (and VSTs loaded). -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Aug 13 2009, 10:39 PM |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM RAM memory is not expensive to upgrade and will let your PC run much faster and handle better complex recording projects (and VSTs loaded). Thanks! -------------------- Guitars: Schecter Hellraiser C-7, Epiphone SG, Some old fake Strat, and an acoustic of unknown brand.
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Aug 13 2009, 10:58 PM |
If you can upgrade your RAM do but 1 gig should be ok for most home use. Video should not be an issue as audio recording software is 2D and makes little use of advance graphics. If you can you should consider partitioning your hard disc and putting your audio on a clean separate partition rather than having everything on a single partion/drive. (Ideally the audio should be on a different hard drive but that's probably one for the future.)
A lot of audio recording software will cope on what you have. Plus very few of us really need to have multiple tracks open at any single time for concurrent recording. What often chews up your memory is running effects or virtual instruments in a way that is inefficient i.e. opening lots of individual, identical simulations of a reverb and placing them individually on individual tracks rather than placing a single one on a main out. There are a small number of virtual instruments that do need a lot of free RAM - but these are a minority still and tend to be expensive. As Andrew says most sequencers also have workarounds like track freezing to help with RAM usage. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Aug 14 2009, 11:11 PM |
You should buy at least one 1GB RAM module to upgrade the machine, and buy one Hard Disk as well, the prices are now low, and you can get 300-500GB HDD with a good price per GB ratio.
So cheapest upgrades and the one that will do your PC biggest performance boost: 1. RAM 2. HDD -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 23 2009, 06:10 PM |
I really think you should upgrade to be on the safer side....
I got 2 GB Ram and a 2.8 Ghz Celeron processor but sometimes that is not enogh........ I hope it gets better when i get my new Harddrive -------------------- My Gear
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