Hello Chi,
The best advice I can give you is to not get too worried over having the latest version of every
piece of software. There are plenty of people who manage perfectly well with older versions of
software and some upgrades only introduce a few minor features that most of us can do without.
As for windows vista, I wouldn't even think about it yet since it will probably take some time
to shake out all the bugs, both in vista and Jaws. Moreover, making your system 64 bit compliant
will be a major upgrade, not to mention very costly.
It sounds to me like your most pressing problem is getting Sonar working smoothly with the larger
projects.
What's your hardware setup? i.e. how many audio interfaces do you have and how have you
organised your drives?
Hope this helps.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chi Kim" <ms22282@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Upgrade Madness
Hi,
I have a 2.9ghz intel cpu, 1gb ddr ram, and 2 300gb sata hard drives.
At first, I was doing small production like rhythm section plus vocal, and I had no problem in
terms of computer power.
But as I aproach my graduation from a music college, I found myself involved with bigger
projects such as dealing with studio orchestra with lots of additional tracks (rhythm section,
synth, voice, and so on).
My school provide record session at a professional commercial studio with protool, then I bring
the entire session on a hard drive and import on a sonar project that I've been already working
on with some midi tracks to be added with live recording.
When loading the heavy project, jaws started to become sluggish, and it caused drop outs
especially when inserting some indivisual effects for certain tracks and bus effects.
I'm using asio with 512 latency. I can't even think about 128 latency. it won't even start
playing. Just drop out before playback!
Anyways, I was thinking about upgrading my system, but I realized there are quite a few upgrades
coming up.
Sonar upgraded to 5.2, and jaws released public beta upgrade, and I believe windows vista is
coming out sometimes later.
Top of that, there's new jaws script for sonar from JSonar Development.
Not to mention, there's sibelius that I need to use to make scores for orchestra and so on.
Sibelius also upgraded.
I'm lost with all those near future stuff. What do you all think I should do? I'd appreciate all
of your oppinion.
thanks,
PS: Does jaws and caketalking run on windows 64 eddition?
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