Speeding Sh$t up!

[NSGUITAR]

When I do ANYTHING involving Superior Drummer 2, I always have to bounce the audio as wav and import it into another project with my guitars and stuff.


Why am I not able to run everything in the same damn project? When I do, I get the notorious "all sounds go to raspy nasty shit". Everything just slows down and doesn't work.

I work with Reaper.

My computer is this:

4 gigs ram

AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual processor 5200+ 2.71GHz

32-bit OS (Windows vista business)

I run my routing pretty intelligently, but I still get a load of shit when I try to do all instruments in one project. And I'm getting sick of having to program a drum part, render it and drag it into the other project. Because when I need to make a damn change I have to go back into the drum project and it's annoying. Help?

 

[Agonal]

maybe try freezing the superior vst, not sure if reaper has that function like cubase.

 

[NSGUITAR]

maybe try freezing the superior vst, not sure if reaper has that function like cubase.

What does that do?

 

[AudioPhile777]

I have a similar setup as yours, but I use PT and my machine is a tad faster... I don't have any problems with it until I get about 20 tracks deep and I'm using synths and shit (RAM)...

Once I have the drums sounding good in the plugin, I always bounce for further tweaking anyway... so I don't see this as a problem; maybe I'm not understanding your issue.

 

[zirkonflex]

What does that do?

I have the exact same stuff as you and my machine is even less powerfull (2gb ram).
When I have a lot of guitar tracks my Asio driver will start to fuck up every now and then when I use superior, and its horrid when the samples are being loaded in. Sometimes the entire thing just crashes.
I was really pissed in the beginning but after some time I got used to it.
REAPER is really an awesome DAW but it seriously has some issues with big and complicated VST plugins.
Everything runs very smooth in Cubase ...
All the EastWest stuff also used to crash until the new Update came out.
It appears that in my case it only happens I have way over 1Gb of samples loaded in the metal foundry so I could imagine it being a memory usage fault on REAPER's side.
Have you ever played around with cashing the samples or running the thing in 16 bit ?
You should check out if that helps although that quite obviously is not a permanent solution.
I hope some of that will be fixed in the next few patches.

/@audiophile : Do you bounce all the instruments seperate on single tracks ?
I guess that would take forever ...

// Oh, all these problems where solved if we'd be using 64 bit systems, but I just don't see that happening right now for me.

 

[barricade]

I have a slower computer than you and i always press the 16bit and cache button when i'm composing... its a VERY BIG performance difference (and sound also...but you still can turn off the 16bit button when you're mixing or bouncing)).

Cache = freeze!