Alright! So I've got my ASUS P5Q Deluxe, Intel Q9550 2.83 ghz Quad Core up and running now. It's got 4gb Corsair RAM, 320 GB Samsung F1 as a system drive for Windows and apps, and a 750 GB Samsung F1 for the audio. The computer is REALLY fast and fluid, liking it so far. The Profire 2626 is connected to a LaCie Texas Instruments FireWire PCI card. The card is on IRQ 17 which is shared with one of the gigabit LAN ports on the motherboard, but since I won't have any internet in the rehearsal room, the Profire should pretty much run on its own which is good.
So I stress tested the system in REAPER... and let me just say that on my home computer which is just a Intel Dual Core 2.13 ghz, 2 GB RAM, 250GB Seagate drive and an M-Audio Delta1010LT, I could only run about 1 drum plugin, 4 guitar tracks and 2-3 synths and possibly one or two clean guitar tracks (still with some form of amp sim though) before the computer died completely in REAPER. This was done in 64 samples latency which gave me 2,1ms/2,1ms in latency.
The same thing with the new computer and the Profire 2626 @ 64 samples allowed me to run 2 drum plugins, 16-17 guitar tracks, 12 semi-heavy synths (Native Instruments Kore Player on all of them), 1 instance of the CPU-hog CVPiano before the computer started dying. There were no dropouts until my quad core hit about 90-95% on the meter. However, this gave me 3,1ms/3,1ms latency, which is actually a bit worse than the Delta1010LT card
However, it's still good enough for direct monitoring so I'm not really complaining.
Now for the part that is troubling me:
I encountered only one issue so far with the Profire 2626 which was this very strange ring modulator type of effect when I was monitoring my guitar through REAPER. I hadn't added any effects at all to the track yet, I was just monitoring the clean dry signal but through REAPER (not direct monitoring). I was playing around with the gain knob on input 1 on the Profire 2626 and then suddenly this ring modulator effect kicked in. My guitar sounded completely messed up and the only way to solve it was to quit REAPER and relaunch it. After that, it hasn't happened anymore... even after the 30-45 minutes heavy stress test.
Has anyone had a similar issue or know what could be the cause of this?
Oh, and I have sorted all the samples in my computer and sliced up the samples that were multisamples and stuff and categorized them neatly... I'll share this folder with you guys later... if you give me valuable information about this issue I encountered, haha. Just kidding, I'll upload 'em anyway sometime in the near future
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Now for some pictures... (Pardon my crappy cellphone camera, it was all I had at the moment)
The black/white/red cable running on the bottom and out the back of the computer is removed in case you wonder... it look redicilously weird It was for one of the fans that had a speed control on the outside of the chassis, but the fans are very silent anyway so I just removed it. They're all Fractal Silent Series fans... a bit expensive but not as expensive as the most "1337" fans.
So I stress tested the system in REAPER... and let me just say that on my home computer which is just a Intel Dual Core 2.13 ghz, 2 GB RAM, 250GB Seagate drive and an M-Audio Delta1010LT, I could only run about 1 drum plugin, 4 guitar tracks and 2-3 synths and possibly one or two clean guitar tracks (still with some form of amp sim though) before the computer died completely in REAPER. This was done in 64 samples latency which gave me 2,1ms/2,1ms in latency.
The same thing with the new computer and the Profire 2626 @ 64 samples allowed me to run 2 drum plugins, 16-17 guitar tracks, 12 semi-heavy synths (Native Instruments Kore Player on all of them), 1 instance of the CPU-hog CVPiano before the computer started dying. There were no dropouts until my quad core hit about 90-95% on the meter. However, this gave me 3,1ms/3,1ms latency, which is actually a bit worse than the Delta1010LT card
However, it's still good enough for direct monitoring so I'm not really complaining.Now for the part that is troubling me:
I encountered only one issue so far with the Profire 2626 which was this very strange ring modulator type of effect when I was monitoring my guitar through REAPER. I hadn't added any effects at all to the track yet, I was just monitoring the clean dry signal but through REAPER (not direct monitoring). I was playing around with the gain knob on input 1 on the Profire 2626 and then suddenly this ring modulator effect kicked in. My guitar sounded completely messed up and the only way to solve it was to quit REAPER and relaunch it. After that, it hasn't happened anymore... even after the 30-45 minutes heavy stress test.
Has anyone had a similar issue or know what could be the cause of this?
Oh, and I have sorted all the samples in my computer and sliced up the samples that were multisamples and stuff and categorized them neatly... I'll share this folder with you guys later... if you give me valuable information about this issue I encountered, haha. Just kidding, I'll upload 'em anyway sometime in the near future
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Now for some pictures...
(Pardon my crappy cellphone camera, it was all I had at the moment)
The black/white/red cable running on the bottom and out the back of the computer is removed in case you wonder... it look redicilously weird
It was for one of the fans that had a speed control on the outside of the chassis, but the fans are very silent anyway so I just removed it. They're all Fractal Silent Series fans... a bit expensive but not as expensive as the most "1337" fans.
