New PC, new Motu, sonar 5PE....Still these darn dropouts!!!

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humancircus
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New PC, new Motu, sonar 5PE....Still these darn dropouts!!!

Post by humancircus »

Being in the situation that I sold a bunch of non musical items I had laying around. I wanted to spend some money on upgrading my studio gear.
Anyway, first I pruchased a Motu 896Mk3, then my pc went down, so I put some money in a new.
The computer is a quadcore AMD phenom, 4gigs ram, 2x750Gb harddrives and an ordinary screencard.

I think there is something aqward here, because I can get dropouts recording the first audiotrack, when the CPU and disk is at only 0-1% usage. I
find this very strange. This was never a problem on my former DAW with only one single 2ghz prosessor, 1 gig ram and 1 250gb harddrive.
I used some money on this so that I should not be interrupted by such things as dropouts etc. when using many plugins and softsynths.

Any idea on what?

Im currently using XP because I find it to be more stable an less demanding than Vista when it comes to audio production.
Rig:
AMD phenom quadcore
4gb DDR2 ram
1x750gb hd
1x500gb hd
an ok grapic card with 2 outputs :P
Motu 896mk3
Phonic P8A monitors
Pod XT pro guitar multifx processor
Korg Triton Studio synth
Rode K2 tube mic
Several different guitars (guitar is my main instrument)
reeper
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Re: New PC, new Motu, sonar 5PE....Still these darn dropouts!!!

Post by reeper »

install 1360 on motu.com
nerd info:Cubase 4.5.2. Xp x64. Asus p5q-e. 8gb ram
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