macrae11 wrote:Just curious Sam, do your computers meet the Digi specs? Digidesign products are very picky about hardware. Which is great for making trouble shooting easier, but if it doesn't like something it can seriously get bogged down, if it even plays at all.
macrae11 wrote:Yeah I just checked. There are no supported vista laptops with an AMD processor. That doesn't mean that it won't work of course, simply means it hasn't been tested, and you might possibly have some conflicts.
I'm not trying to challenge your experience Sam, it's just that I've had the opposite experience with properly spec'd rigs. I'm still running sessions on an old 1 Ghz G4 powerbook with 1 Gig of RAM. Don't really want to do to much high def work on it, but for standard def it's still rocking.
That being said I have yet to try PT 8, and I'm not a particularly big fan of M-Powered in general anyways.
I know that when I "upgraded" to Sonar 7PE from 5 with the same old hardware, I couldn't believe how much more efficient the system ran. It was much less of a hog, and even more importantly, was a consistent CPU drain as opposed to the older "spike" prone monster. I was rarely able to run my CPU up to the 90% range for a prolonged period of time without losing something. Now, no problem.sammyp wrote:I'd like to make the point that with each new version of Sonar (1 new upgrade per year) .....computer minimum specs rise very little and CPU effeciency stays level or decreases....it seems PT proliferates the purchase of new computers with more more more.....
Malcolm Boyce wrote:I know that when I "upgraded" to Sonar 7PE from 5 with the same old hardware, I couldn't believe how much more efficient the system ran. It was much less of a hog, and even more importantly, was a consistent CPU drain as opposed to the older "spike" prone monster. I was rarely able to run my CPU up to the 90% range for a prolonged period of time without losing something. Now, no problem.sammyp wrote:I'd like to make the point that with each new version of Sonar (1 new upgrade per year) .....computer minimum specs rise very little and CPU effeciency stays level or decreases....it seems PT proliferates the purchase of new computers with more more more.....
The point is, this is where the developers should be focused. More consistent, efficient and reliable rigs, as opposed to new bells and whistles. Whether they've realized this or not, Cakewalk is delivering it.
You could only vote once. It won't let the same username vote more than that.Christian LeBlanc wrote:I think I voted already...how do you tell? If you try to vote a 2nd time, would it just remind you that you already did? (I just don't want to skew the results!)
I believe you are correct.Christian LeBlanc wrote:As for worthiness: if you are smart enough to be using any kind of DAW, then you qualify to vote. Right, Malcolm?
Cubical wrote:I wish I could get off of Cool Edit Pro 2 ...It is a sad state of affairs, but I just got turned onto "PC" recrding in the last 6 months or so! Before that I did everything on my TASCAM Studio Pro II, 4-track recorder on cassette! I shit you not! And looking back, it taught me alot but also rendered many tracks that I could not redo, completely useless with incesant hissing. People tell me that classic analogue hissing is something to savour! Maybe in time!!! Someone gave me Sonar 7, which I have been TRYING to use, but come up short, especially in the effects department and how to propperly use what is on there. Go Cool Edit Pro 2!!! (It wasnt even a choice in the voting category, that's when you know you're alittle behind!)
sammyp wrote:The more i work, the more i love Sonar...on version 8 now....i own both Pro Tools 7/8 M Powered and in my experience they are just not in the ballpark of CPU efficiency on windows computers.
PT sucks about as much juice running a mix of audio tracks with no plugs as Sonar running a finshed mix.....it's really bizarre ....and PT 8 is a far worse offender than PT 7.....i can actually work with PT 7 on my AMD 3000 tower.......PT 8 on my new laptop sucks! - AMD dual core 1.9, 3 gigram ....and it shouldn't ....Sonar works great on this machine....it's like you need a brand new, top of the line machine just for straight ahead mixes on PT 8!?....and i use NO virtual instruments or samplers....
...and this thread is over two years old, so it's more than a little behind itself.Cubical wrote:(It wasnt even a choice in the voting category, that's when you know you're alittle behind!)
macrae11 wrote:I'm still running sessions on an old 1 Ghz G4 powerbook with 1 Gig of RAM. Don't really want to do to much high def work on it, but for standard def it's still rocking.
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