System 1
Asus p4p800
cpu PIV 3.0GHz
1.0 Gb ram
2x Scope professional with Sync Plate
1x Scope project
2x 120 gig sata HD maxtor
matrox p750 triplehead
2x Samsung 17"tft
benq dvdrw
asus DVD
Power supply antec 480 watt
case Antec tower
Scope 4.5
windows XP pro.sp2
Cubase SX 3
Gigastudio 96
system 2:
Soltek SL-85DRV4
CPU PIV 2.2 GHz
1.0 Gb ram
1x Scope professional
2x Scope project
2X 80 gig HD maxtor raid controller.
matrox G550 dualhead
1x samsung 17"tft
1x 15"CRT
52x cdrom asus
48xCDRW plextor
DVD asus
Scope 4.0
windows XP.pro/2000/dualboot
cubase VST 5.1
system 3:
Asus p4v800d-x
windows XP SP2
intel pIV 2.0Ghz
1x maxtor 80 gig 1x 40 gig
768 MB of Ram
radeon 9200 SE
1x Scope project
1x Scope home with adat plate.
Scope 4.5
Cubase VST 5.0
lit-on cdrw
additional software:
all plug-ins Creamware
except ProTone
third party:
Solaris 4
SPL transient designer
gigastudio 96
additional hardware:
Yamaha O2r digital mixer
Emu S5000 sampler
roland GP16
Rocktron preamp
Spirit absolute II monitoring
guitars:
2x gibson les paul Goldtop('72)
classic 1960
gibson SG ('72)
gibson marauder
2x Charvell
1x gretch Nashville
1x westone
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Asus P4P 800-E Deluxe
P4 3.0Ghz
2 Gig DDR 400 RAM
2x120 GB WD 8meg cache HD
Nvidia G-Force FX 5700
Pioneer A07 DVD-RW
LG 52x CDRW / DVD Rom
XP Pro
NEC 17" LCD monitor
1 Pulsar II
1 Scope SRB
Motu 896
Apogee Rosetta
Amek 9098 Dual Mic Pre
JUST ordered Cubase SX 2
(Any cubase users care to comment on the stability of SX? I have been using Logic for the past year or so)
logic is a bit more stable and much less resource hungry,but wow! sx really sounds good.....
*edit*you'll find yourself useing less plugins than with logic('cause you need less) and that's good because logic has a superior set of built-in plugs. you WILL want(imho) to purchase a few nice plugs(i'd say compressor and 'verb) to make up for what you lose from logic.
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HW: iiyma 19"CRT 1600x1200, Nokia 21" 1600x1200, Samsung 17" 1280 x 1024
Genelec 1029 + 1091
Doepfer LMK3
Doepfer pocket dial, pocket control
and i like most:
Flexor, Minimax, Synthetic, DubSub I, Saturn and STS-5ooo
OK now.. after some more experiments and hard sleepless Week´s the System is running very very smoothie.
I have disabled all onbard USB Firewire and S-ATA devices. ( but i try to enable )
But the recent thing is to change "PCI Latency" to "32" and ULLI settings to 3ms @44,1KHz otherwise i got PCI capaticity errors. ( for example at 4ms ULLI i get PCI overload )
It works now fine in ACPi in and Standard Mode so you can choose what you prefer.
Don´t set your Matrox G450 card to 16 bit and dont disable HW Acceleration it only gets extreme slow .. and if HW Acceleration disabled is nearly unusuable.
So i have Busmaster disabled on both G450´s and 32bit colordepth + full HA Acceleration.
The CPU load is with sequencer and a big 16-17DSP project about 22% in playmode.
And the GUi is as fast as hell
I made the PCI Stereo Masterverb test now.
and the result 17 masterverbs without PCI overflow.
yours
r4Ge
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Intel 875PBZ
Intel 3.2e GHZ
FSP-60PFN 400w PSU
Transcend 1GB 400MHZ dual channel memory kit
2xSeagate Barracuda Drives
2xZalman ZM-F2 silent 92mm case fans
Powersampler Card (3 DSP)not using the midi ports.
ATI radeon Pro128 graphics card
software:
Win XP pro sp1 (clean install)
SFP4
CubaseSX 2.2 (XTC mode)
Wavelab 4c
Native Instruments Plugins
Waves Plugins
+ other really good plugs
Various keyboards inc Korg/novation/Fender rhodesMk1/Technics full size digital piano
Configured:
-ACPI multiprocessor mode
-Microsoft pcifnt.exe controlling Powersampler cards Affinity (hyperthreading use) (kept set to zero only).
-Midi is currently made via PCIF cable to serial -port from Korg N1 (no drifting, rock solid)
-XTC mode main use
-Creamware 3.1a driver not 3.1c
-All WinXp services stopped that are not in use
/ no internet or network
-All recomended Audio tweaks made to XP
-Diskkeeper lite run each day
Great stable/reliable and very fast system. Had afew problems when first built but all sorted now.
I plan to get a creamware expansion board for more DSPs.
I also want to add that I started production using an Apple Mac and Opcode Vision Korg M1 &Roland D50. Then later paid a reputable music shop a fair load of cash to build me an Audio PC..........6 months of Hell! It was a nightmare and I almost lost all motivation ( it turned out they had fitted the wrong type of RAM,(they still make Audio PCs!) but out of this I learnt how PCs worked and I always thought they could be as good as Macs, I was right and eventually I built my own DAW.
Still a struggling musician/college student, so for now I'm using:
AMD AthalonXP 1800
Soyo K7V Dragon Plus (KT266)
1024mb PC2100 ram
VisionTek GeForce3 64mb
Creamware PulsarII
Universal Audio UAD-1
Maxtor 60gb, 120gb
Yamaha 24x CD-RW
DVD-ROM
Creek 5250 preamp
Mission m71 speakers
Some other old M&K speakers, crappy Yamahas
Sennheiser HD580 headphones
Software:
Win XP Pro
Orion Platinum
energyXT
Synths n Sampler bundle
Adern Flexor
spaceF ECHO3
STW P100 Classic Plate
Drumkit from Hell Superior
Voxengo GlissEQ, Elephant, Warmifier
SIR reverb
Gmedia M-tron, impOSCar
DiscoDSP Discovery2
Dozens of free plugins, etc
NES and superNES emulators,
and of course Quake3!!
-Brian
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OK. 'Bout time I contributed here.
P4 2Gb processor
Intel PBZ875
1Gb Kingston DDR RAM
Maxtor 40 Gb
Quantum Fireball 13GB
Mitsumi CR4082TE CD ROM
Sony CDU 5231 CD-RW
Matrox G550
CRT 17" LCD ( did have dual monitors but decided Alt-Tab was easier)
Pulsar 1
Luna 2
SRB 2
Scope 4
SX 1 06
Cool Edit 2000
STW Mastering Suite + 4080 Rev
Kawai 5000 ( don't laugh)
Tube PAC
NT Rodes Mics
My lovely Takamini Ac guitar
Dual boot XP pro
2 GB partition for permanent swap file
An old Sherwood amp and speakers that have proven to be the 'dog's bollocks'
And....a very comfortable leather chair!
ASUS TUSL2-C Intel 815EP
Pentium III 700 MHz
512 MB RAM
WD 80 GB
Maxtor 40 GB
Original Pulsar I Board
Scope Version 4.0
Creamware A16
No Name CD Writer 48X
Antec 350 Watt power supply
MAG (Samsung) 19” Flat Screen monitor
I aswell "used" to have that exact set up, but I suffered from midi timing issues if the PC was not installed as standard PC and had many pops and clicks from PCI issues since I also have a UAD and a Powercore in the same box, here is my new set up.
- Master System
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- Intel P4 3.2c
- Intel D875PBZ (Rock solid board)
- 1G Crucial Cas3.5 DDR400 PC3200
- 2x 80G Seagate Baracuda
- Antec TruPower 430w PSU
- Sony DVD+RW DRU530A
- ATI Radeon 9800PRO (Dual Head)
- Creamware ScopePro
- UAD-1
- TC Powercore
- Thermaltake LanFire
- Windows XP Professional
- Slave System
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- Asus A7N8X
- Athlon XP 2700+
- 1G Crucial Cas2.5 DDR333 PC2700
- 120G WD 8mb CACHE 7200RPM *SE
- Abit Sulero Geforce Ti4400 (Dual Head)
- Enermax SilentPower 350w
- Sony 52x CD-RW
- LynxTwo
- LS-ADAT
- Lian-Li PC90 Aluminum
- Windows XP Professional
My main system works like a champ, with HP turned on and ACPI installation, the only thing I notice is that with SFP4 HT on causes pops and clicks with wave drivers when recording directly to a device like wavelab, asio is fine though, and if I need to use the wave drivers I can just desable HT in the bios on the boot up.
I want to know if this has been stable and trouble free?
It wasn't the easiest to install / find a working configuration, but it works now. It took a few weeks to find a config that doesn't crash all the time. I got a good result in MasterVerb test, don't remember anymore, have a search if interested.
Well, I'd rather make music than spend any time tweaking the computer.
I really need to know which board/CPU is going to give me the least trouble and be the most compatible right out of the box. To me saving a few dollars up front only to spend hours trying to get the system up and running is foolish. My current Intel chipset (which I bought based on this forum's recommendation) worked like a charm day one and I never had to fool with it.
I run a Pulsar2 and a pulsar1 with a pulsar1 SRB so 14 dsp in total.
My DAW is:-
P4B266
P41.8GHz
1GB Corsair RAM
Windows XP (stripped right down though so no network services at all etc)
Seagate HD's
Everything runs well but sometimes I experience the dreaded "no more stdm connections" on some projects. It's an inconvenience more than anything. I wanted to get myself a HD24 for live recording work but now I've decided to kill two birds with one stone and get a Scope Professional card to link with the pulsar 2, which will solve the stdm connection problem and then use the pulsar1 and srb in a rack system for live recordings. Looking forward to trying that out!
, 1GbRDRam, Asus V7700 Deluxe VGA, Asus cdrw, 40Gb Seagate lll primary master, 80Gb Seagate lV as secondary master(thanks to garyb) 19" philips display,server case and Pulsar2+.
