dual core 1.66ghz should get you by. on my quad 2.3ghz I had four guitar tracks going with 7170/8505/kefir on each, plus ampegsvt running on two seperate bass tracks...only came to like 10% CPU. on my old system that'd be 100% CPU and it'd slow to a crawl.
Would 1.66 GHz be enough?
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roy22341
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I ran a 12 song session with about 28-30 tracks on my dual 1.42GHz G4 (not too many plug-ins mind you). My buddies PC was over 2.5GHz and he had to split the same session up into four chunks to get it to run reasonably on his computer. But then again that machine is also a dedicated studio computer. Still, the little mac that could blew me away on that one.
Via Noctis
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I used a pc with amd64 2.66ghz and 4 gigs of ram!! with cubase sx for a long time and had a lot of errors when I tracked drums or too many plugins. then went to a 2007 macbook pro with a dual core 2.6ghz. and 2 gigs of ram and the only error I have ever had was from the 5400rpm hard drive.. which I got an external now.
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I'm running a 2Ghz Dual Core and 2GB ram laptop.. its fine. Atm I'm running a project with about 20-25 tracks, 20 buses, a couple of reverbs, shitloads of EQs, comps, multibands, saturators. Its quite sluggish but it works. I'd look at your settings if you cant even run TSS/Wag/Vox 4 times. Try raise the latency or something.
what interfece you have?
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I am running a fucked up desktop pc with 1,6 ghz and 512 mb ram, recorded,
mixed and mastered our whole album on it (ok it sucks
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Gonna get a laptop soon and I am fucking thankful because nowadays
I work with VstI all the time and use different plugins and so on so I need alot more power.
mixed and mastered our whole album on it (ok it sucks
)Gonna get a laptop soon and I am fucking thankful because nowadays
I work with VstI all the time and use different plugins and so on so I need alot more power.
also take care about the hard-disk / bus, its very important for multiple audio tracks playpack..(like 30+) + sample librarys...etc.
or multiple track recording..
my old laptop really struggles in playback of more then 20 audio mono tracks simultaneous and also in recording 18 mono tracks at the same time.
or multiple track recording..
my old laptop really struggles in playback of more then 20 audio mono tracks simultaneous and also in recording 18 mono tracks at the same time.
Thanks for all the replies, I'm glad so many people have experience to share since I have very little knowledge in how these things actually work in practice. It looks like I'll be getting this laptop after all then. If all goes as planned I should be picking it tommorow even, maybe friday.
So what I'm getting from this discussion is that it ain't all about the clock speed? I don't plan on doing any huuuugee projects with 359 vsts with 80gb sample libraries, but I will be planning on atleast doing some full album production in the future, and like I mentioned be running Cubase 5 when I scrape up some cash once more, and I need to know that it can handle that. I'll of course be speaking to the guys at the store about this aswell, and the possibility of maybe upgrading the processor later on.
EDIT: Of course, anything will be a vast improvement over this sluggish monstrosity I'm running now. This thing is so about to digest itself that it pretty much just gargles putrid data when I launch Cubase.
EDIT 2: This will, of course, be a strictly recording comp aswell, so I hope to clear up alot of performance just from not having any other shit rotting around.
So what I'm getting from this discussion is that it ain't all about the clock speed? I don't plan on doing any huuuugee projects with 359 vsts with 80gb sample libraries, but I will be planning on atleast doing some full album production in the future, and like I mentioned be running Cubase 5 when I scrape up some cash once more, and I need to know that it can handle that. I'll of course be speaking to the guys at the store about this aswell, and the possibility of maybe upgrading the processor later on.
EDIT: Of course, anything will be a vast improvement over this sluggish monstrosity I'm running now. This thing is so about to digest itself that it pretty much just gargles putrid data when I launch Cubase.
EDIT 2: This will, of course, be a strictly recording comp aswell, so I hope to clear up alot of performance just from not having any other shit rotting around.
thats a very good decision!!!!!
i have it the same way, one computer for recording only
no firewall, no antivirus.................., not even connected to a network..
Yes! That is exactly the way I have it planned, to keep this comp for the usual stuff and the laptop for recording only, without internet access. I don't give a shit if it takes forever to transfer files via flashdrives just to throw a quick mix on soundclick, it's worth it! 
Via Noctis
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The pc I had was never on the internet even once, and still just had nothing but problems, went to a mac. i have ran 25 tracks loaded with plugins and never gave me an error. I even have my buffer settings and latency settings very low.
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Yeah, but then again there are pretty much as many stories who say the opposite.
Don't want to start a MC vs PC war here, but generally macs are twice the price for the same "performance", and my budget is very very limited, hence I've pretty much ruled it out. However I might get a mac in a year or so, whenever I feel like upgrading.
Don't want to start a MC vs PC war here, but generally macs are twice the price for the same "performance", and my budget is very very limited, hence I've pretty much ruled it out. However I might get a mac in a year or so, whenever I feel like upgrading.
One thing I wanna mention though, dude, is that I'm pretty certain you can't upgrade the processor on a laptop (as you mentioned); they're very limited in that respect AFAIK!
Hmm, I see. Well, this would be something to discuss with the store I guess. The manager is an old work-friend of mine, so he should be able to give me the lowdown. Thanks for the heads-up though!
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