Is my PC good enough to record with?

[Melb_shredder]

3ghz P4, 2gig ram, 120 gig hardrive, 128mg graphics card

Solely for recording with Cubase 4

yes no???
Seems to be running fine but I'm wondering if it is adequate?
Thanks guys!

 

[Baron of Norsworthy]

3ghz P4, 2gig ram, 120 gig hardrive, 128mg graphics card

Solely for recording with Cubase 4

yes no???
Seems to be running fine but I'm wondering if it is adequate?
Thanks guys!

Yes

 

[Melb_shredder]

Sweet! Cheers
XD I know I've been posting a lot lately but I'm taking this more seriously now and want to put more of myself into recording so cheers

 

[pifos_2]

it should be allright.
few advices, put a fresh windows, with just Cubase and few plugins, synths,.... and keep it away from any internet connection.
Get a second harddrive to put your cubase sessions-wave files on it.

It'll smooth things out..

 

[gorath23]

Easily good enough. I'm currently using a 5 year old eMachines 2.8ghz Intel Celeron PC with only 512mb RAM and a crappy Firewire card and it works great. I would recommend a separate external HDD (I use a 250GB MyBook). Considering I use EZdrummer, multiple VST plugins, Impulses, its surprising what you can get away with. I have to make liberal use of the Render/Freeze facility and often I mix-as-I-go, but I find as a beginner this is better suited to me anyway as opposed to coming to a fully recorded but utterly raw song and then going...crap how do I get this all to fit together!

 

[StefTD]

Yeah, my PC is like 1,8 GHZ, 512 MB Ram, a Terratec Phase 22 soundcard, Cubase SX3 a few plugins and an external 150 gb drive, and I have to record our demo with it (ok drums, were done before so only 2 tracks guitar, bass, and 1-3 vocal tracks but I use impulses on guitar and ampeg svx for bass...).
Will buy a new one in June but it works for now.

 

[BrandonS]

Hahah, my stats aren't nearly as good as yours and I record! I get latency issues sometimes that cause dropouts, and my computer turned itself off once, but for the most part it's all GOOD! With your stats, you should be fine.

I've got 2.8ghz processor, 1 gig ram, basic Soundblaster live soundcard...

 

[kev]

I think you should just scrape by with a lot of bouncing!

 

[Russtopher]

I'm running a 1.4Ghz Athlon with 512M RAM and an 80 gig drive

Granted, I need to pre-mix drums, then render them down to a stereo .wav in Reaper before I move on to everything else. Otherwise, with the plugins and EQ my machine just gags. But it definitely can be done, and like some other posters noted, freezing/rendering individual tracks can go a long way towards freeing up CPU.

 

[Pot]

3ghz P4, 2gig ram, 120 gig hardrive, 128mg graphics card

Solely for recording with Cubase 4

yes no???
Seems to be running fine but I'm wondering if it is adequate?
Thanks guys!

Yes it will do.

Myself i´m still on a 3ghz P4, 2gig ram like u....maybe u´ll need to tweak it a bit to get more from it, like regular defrag,etc,etc