Hey just lookin for some advice or feedback from yall! I’m gonna be getting myself a audio interface for my laptop and desktop which both run Cubase 6 32bit 64… atm Cubase has gotten so laggy I can’t even finish the rest of my track=/ the latency is really high and there is then audio dropouts. I used the low generic ASIO driver, full duplex ASIO (on my desktop) and also used my Allen & Heath Xone DX ASIO which helped but not much. So my question to yall is… Should i spend the money on an audio interface OR buy myself a better computer with CPU and all that jazz? and will either help with my latency issue for Cubase or even mixing with my Xone DX! Much Obliged!
Computer specs: Desktop— AMD: sempron™ processor 3600+ 2.00ghz 3.31gb usable ram 32 bit operating system running windows ultimate…
Laptop— Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Intel Celeron processor 900. 2.20GHz. 1MB Cache. 800MHz FSB.
3GB DDR2 System Memory, Max supported =4096MB. 2 accessible memory slots.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M (shared) with up to1309MB total available graphics memory.
250GB (7200RPM) Hard Drive (SATA).
High speed 56k modem
I would do both if I were you. The laptop is underspecced CPU-wise, and using onboard audiointerfaces is never a great idea. You can however try a cheap external soundcard to see if it helps. I started with a Behringer UCA 222 which goes for €30,- or so and it worked a treat. It hasn’t got many inputs or outputs, but I don’t know what you need.
As for the laptop: Again I don’t know how you use cubase. Using virtual synths will probably eat up your CPU quickly, experiment with freezing your instruments to reduce CPU load.
thanks for the tips bud. i will be upgrading my desktop soon actually! yea the vsts and midis in cubase to slow my comp down to the point i cannot finish my track=/
atm i just bought a dope audio interface! profire 610=] do you know if it would be bottlenecked by my computers? it was 400+ dollars canadian.
and also by freezing instruments you meant what exactly? xD
thanks again!
As for freezing VST instruments: When you freeze an instrument, Cubase exports all that instruments sounds to an audiofile in the background, which it then plays instead of the instrument itself. This means the instrument is idle and you’re just playing an audiofile, which is much easier on your CPU. Only thing is, if you freeze an instrument, you can’t edit it, for the simple reason that cubase isn’t even playing the instrument. If you want to make changes, you need to unfreeze the instrument first.
To freeze a VST, go to your VST instrument rack and click on the little snowflake icon to the left of the instrument you wish to freeze. For more details you could lookup the manual, it’s a powerful feature!
Yea its a solid interface! Although my laptop doesn’t have firewire so I’m gonna be upgrading my desktop asap!
Thanks again for the advice bud I’m gonna try this feature out now!
Btw! Cubase 6 is having troubles with real-time exports…=/ seems a lot of cubase users are having this problem aswell…
is there anyway to real-time export my track while they are frozen? i’ve tried but no sound plays after the export is finished.=/ Thanks!
Btw! Cubase 6 is having troubles with real-time exports…=/ seems a lot of cubase users are having this problem aswell…
is there anyway to real-time export my track while they are frozen? i’ve tried but no sound plays after the export is finished.=/ Thanks!
