I didn’t need anything fancier in terms of connections, the sound was more than decent and even the driver performed more than adequate.

Under Windows XP I was quite happy with it. Since the main system seemed to be stable and suitable for audio – it was time to tackle the next potential error source.Īt that point I assumed that the bottleneck was my old Alesis io2 soundcard. Impressive looking red spikes – it definitely looks better than it sounds Here’s what I was seeing on my system right after a fresh boot-up. exe file and it will show you the latency of your system in real-time. You don’t even need to install it, just run the. (Edit: link removed because the software is not available anymore.) If you are running a Windows system I highly recommend you download this free program. Some googling for a solution led me to the free DPC Latency Checker. But on a quad-core i7 with 16 GB of RAM and some SSD drives there shouldn’t be any issues at all. It simply would NOT have run on my old, measly single core Athlon PC with 2GB of RAM. Now Omnisphere is a comparatively resource-hungry beast – that’s part of the reason I didn’t already buy it years ago. Not fun after putting down a large sum of cash with high expectations for a well-performing system.Ī single Omnisphere instance sometimes caused crackling and drop-outs. See, after the first round of toying with the new system and building various Cubase templates I experienced audio drop-outs and system crashes.

I simply couldn’t justify an article about how to choose the best components for your DAW, when my own new system wasn’t working the way it should. So why isn’t at least that article online yet? New sounds to check out.Īnd I did write a 2000+ word article on how to choose your music PC components. So, there was lots of installing and configuring going on. I also got a bunch of new software like Komplete 8 and Omnisphere. No articles for a long time – what happened?Īlmost 3 months ago I finally bought a new PC system.

Even though the article is somewhat older, the trouble-shooting methodology is still valid today. I removed some links to software that unfortunately is not available anymore. I’ve added more RAM and lots of additional VSTs and sample libraries.

Fun fact, I still use the same PC I wrote about here (including the NI Komplete 6 audio interface) for my music productions. 2021-04 update: this article was published in early 2013.

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