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offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-03-29 22:34 [#01546867]
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ive been running fl studio 5 with a decent amount of vst
plug ins and i wanna be able to play it live but with all
the plug ins, i get lots of clips and static and shit. what
should i do? would an external sound card do the trick? or
am i left with having to upgrade my laptop (its athlon 2600+
mobile with 256 mb ddr ram)?


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-03-29 22:44 [#01546871]
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jeeesus, get /way/ more ram than that. 256mb is nothing -
you'd be amazed how much of a difference a ram upgrade
makes.

easy way to find out dude, just look at task manager while
the shit is clipping. is all your ram being used, or is cpu
usage at 100% ?


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-03-29 22:44 [#01546872]
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i'd recommend 1gig ram, btw.

 

offline boobah from pants on 2005-03-29 22:46 [#01546874]
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memory

 

offline x0hx from Lysdexia (United States) on 2005-03-29 23:16 [#01546877]
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Alienware just sold 100 lappies to teh Army, Area 51M's
how funny
Anything that takes the load off yer CPU is good
Low latency is key as well (4 to 8 ms)
I don't know the latency of SPDIf, USB 2 or Firewire but
Toslink (optical) is probably fastest I would think


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-03-30 01:04 [#01546909]
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i use m audio quattro and it is extremely low latency and
extremely high kick assedness. for real!


 

offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2005-03-30 01:46 [#01546920]
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great thread, reminds me that im getting my first laptop
soon, p4 3.2ghz 1024ram, should be enough for a few vst's
and an voice sample of me saying "aaaaargh"

sorry, I do think you need more ram, on my other comp i got
512ram and even that feels like it's far from enough..
Offcourse latency problems and stuff like that is solved by
a
better/good souncard, also recommended if you wanna play
stuff live...


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-03-30 02:19 [#01546941]
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thanks peoples, looks like im just gonna have to start
saving money..... now only if i had a source of income


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-03-30 06:18 [#01547078]
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the best cpu for this would be an athlon 64 - they fuckin
rock - and of course - 1 gig minimum


 

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