Fast computer... what am I doing wrong?

soundmachineinc wrote on 11/15/2003, 9:58 PM
All right... I got some issues here.. Have set up vegas on 2 machines.. 1 is dual AMD MP 1800+ with 1 gig ram, 120g SATA drive, and motu 24 i/o, and the other is a dual XEON 2.6g with 1 gig ram and an ULTRA 160 RAID5 array with the same MOTU card... here is my big problem... I captured 20 tracks directly from my hd24 ADAT and proceeded to mix my song. I had the standard eq,gate, and comp used on all 20 channels, 6 instances of waves reverb, 1 instance waves maxxbass, and 2 choruses, and autotune 3.04, plus ultramaximizer on the master bus. Running tracks through 8 vegas busses. As soon as I add one more effect the playback SLOWS down speed and when I add 2 more it starts skipping. I tried using both WDM and ASIO drivers with no difference, using all 16 buffers, time critical priority, and 1 second buffering. I am using 4.0d vegas...All tracks are ONLY 16bit, 48k. I need to add another 16-22 tracks and at least 8 more effects.... what's my remedy??? Also a note... when opening task manager I show CPU usage topping out at 60%.... is this weird or what?

Comments

drbam wrote on 11/16/2003, 8:32 AM
I would experiment with disabling efx (one at a time) starting with autotune, then the verbs, and compressors. See if you can add a few more tracks after each step of efx disable. Although you've got a powerful computer, sometimes plugins can interact in weird ways and cause problems that aren't resource resource related. At the least I would render the autotuned track(s). Autotune can do very strange things when running real time with a lot of tracks and plugs.

HTH,

drbam
BeNt wrote on 1/30/2004, 3:48 PM
Why so many effects? I've never heard of so many on a single mix!!!
BeNt wrote on 1/30/2004, 3:51 PM
You STILL need 8 more effects??? Good God, man, I've gotta hear this! What are you mixing?
Cold wrote on 1/30/2004, 7:47 PM
In properties under the file heading is it set to 16 bit 48k? If it is set to 44.1 vegas is trying to do real time conversion on your tracks. Also check the reverbs, these can be serious cpu hogs as well as auto tune.
Steve S.