It was so fast that I actually had to get used to it... Either way, we never got to use our card to create anything yet... sigh and a huge money waster in the end if it doesn't work. I know I can't get line 1/2 out working for some weird reson. So far, everything else looks fine.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Belle Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:26 AM To: JSonar -- JAWS Scripts for Sonar discussion list Subject: Re: [Jsonar] Minimum amount of memory/CPU needed to run Sonar 8.5.3 Producer Hey Andy, Congrats on the new machine, and no, I never mind being called out especially on advice I give, whether bad or good. I try very hard to give only good advice as my reputation depends on it. I would have liked to see you get a daw, but if you had to get a cookie cutter machine, a Dell is probably the best of that off the shelf stuff. But they do tend to bundle a lot of ram and processor hogging junk on it, and they certainly aren't optimized for daw use, but anything is better than what you had. Excepting maybe a netbook 'grin'. 4 gigs is a reasonable amount of memory for that machine. Sonar should be fine with that, and windows 7 too. YOu can find all the relevant specs over at cakewalk.com my built to order daw only has 6 gigs in it. My wife's i5 machine which is also configured as a daw by the good Jim Roseberry over at studiocat.com aka perfect audio has 4 gigs in it just like yours. You must realize though, that memory isn't the only consideration when it comes to a perfectly working daw. Processor, motherboard, chipset, pci timing latency, what processes are running, bios settings, and tons of other stuff i won't go in to here are all part of the equation. these things are picky. Also I know you to be running a delta 10 10, one of my favorite old interfaces. Unfortunately, m-audio more or less abandoned support for these venerable old interfaces with the advent of windows 7. it seems to have something to do with the timing chips on the card, some are getting better performance using another clock source, but for that reason, I'm not using my beloved delta cards under w7 but the mackie onyx 1640i. There are other less expensive options. And not everyone is having trouble, so you might luck out. At any rate, enjoy your new machine, it must seem like your soaring after being on the old computer and dealing with it. YOu should be able to get a lot more work done. and, bad bad, spank spank, go get you an external drive, or start burning those backups to removable media or something. No excuse to loose all your stuff. Warmest regards. At 12:38 AM 7/11/2011, you wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01CC3F6B.2D6D7360" >Content-Language: en-us > >Just so I have it on hand, does anybody know what the recommended >amount of memory/CPU on a computer should be to run Sonar 8.5.3 >Producer at a useful/practicle level without having timing/skipping or >caching issues is? Some of you might remember that I had a well. >cluncky/junky EMachines T6212 which had 512MB of memory w/ 128MB of it >shared with video and an >AMD64 1.99 (3200+ processor running XP home. >Chris Bell (sorry for calling you out) would always pretty much tell me >that basically a lot of my problems with recording happen to have been >the computer I had - no way in the world it would keep up to the >demands of a real DAW. Of course I never listened - well, I did, but >never really acted on it. Everybody might be thrilled to know that the >old nag (computer) has uh. um. decided to take a very large plunge into >the very deep river to heaven. R.I.P old computer! Good riddens! > >Anyways, this trip to wherever it decided to take cost me everything. I >lost everything. >Projects, files, key codes - you name it I lost it. Even my *gulp* >backups? Oh well. Guess I will have to start over from the beginning >(again). > >Now, I have a new computer. Its name is "monster". This is what it looks like: > >Component >Details >Subscore >Base score >Processor >Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz >5.9 >4.5 >Determined by lowest subscore >Memory (RAM) >4.00 GB >5.9 >Graphics >NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI >5.6 >Gaming graphics >2014 MB Total available graphics memory >4.5 >Primary hard disk >76GB Free (149GB Total) >5.7 >Windows 7 Professional > >System > >Manufacturer >Dell Inc. >Model >Precision WorkStation 390 >Total amount of system memory >4.00 GB RAM >System type >64-bit operating system >Number of processor cores >2 > >Storage > >Total size of hard disk(s) >149 GB >Disk partition (C:) >76 GB Free (149 GB Total) >Media drive (D:) >CD/DVD > >Graphics > >Display adapter type >NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI >Total available graphics memory >2014 MB >Dedicated graphics memory >256 MB >Dedicated system memory >0 MB >Shared system memory >1758 MB >Display adapter driver version >8.17.12.5896 >Primary monitor resolution >1024x768 >Secondary monitor resolution >1024x768 >DirectX version >DirectX 9.0 or better > >Network > >Network Adapter >Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller Do you think this will be >able to handle the real world of recording and DAWs? >_______________________________________________ >Find JSonar and Sonar FAQs, articles, guides and downloads at jsonar.org. > >Jsonar mailing list >[email protected] >http://jsonar.org/mailman/listinfo/jsonar_jsonar.org For all your audio production needs and technology training, visit us at www.affordablestudioservices.com or contact Chris Belle [email protected] or Stephie Belle [email protected] for customized web design _______________________________________________ Find JSonar and Sonar FAQs, articles, guides and downloads at jsonar.org. 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