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___jacky
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Posted : Sep 9, 2001 18:03:41
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hey all, this one is for a friend of mine..
he has pentium 2 computer and wants to know if the computer is good enough for putting cubase vst
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answers welcome..
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___bilbobagginz
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Posted : Sep 9, 2001 18:46:40
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let him try,it depends on his general HW setup,
so install cubase, and if it doesn't run fast enough, uninstall it.
it's only a piece of soft :)
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___Psychadelo
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Posted : Sep 9, 2001 18:47:27
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Give more details like : RAM , Hard drive , Mhz ...
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___ralih
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Posted : Sep 9, 2001 20:56:16
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I used to have a pentium 2 350 mhz with 256 mb RAM and cubase 5 worked just fine.. |
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___PsyTom
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Posted : Sep 9, 2001 21:02:31
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Look, it depends on what he wants to do and how many VSTi and effects he want to use. It also depends on the amount of RAM, sound card type and hard disk speed. IMO, a decent setup is a P-3 800(or any AMD athlon) with a compatible mother board, 256 MB of RAM (512 would be useful if a virtual sampler would be used along side VSTi), a 7200 RPM hard disk and an Echo audio Mia or Creative SB live audigy.
Personally, i have a P-3 850, 512 of RAM, a Maxtor 40 GB 7200 RPM hard disk and a Layla 24. This setup would be insufficient for audio-only music creation - You'll need a more powerful CPU in order to run many effects and instruments together. Therefore, i recommend an AMD athlon thunderbird 1.33 GB or even more.
Note: By saying "insufficient", i meant that the most VST instruments and effects i used at the same time were 2 Dinamo's, 2 Pro-five, a halion and 2 effects (this entire array of VSTs used approximately 80% of my CPU power). Maybe it would be sufficient for you, but when it comes to me, i simply hate to dump everything to a WAV file and then re-dump it when i want to change something in the already dumped WAV file. This is a gruesome procedure which slows me down when composing.
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___DCQ
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Posted : Sep 11, 2001 10:46:09
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well
hes probably gonna try anyway
it also depe3nds on what hes actually going to use cubase for...
psytom, you mention that youve got a well specced machine, but you use a lot of virtual instruments and virtual sampler
you wont need such a powerful machine if your planning to use it mainly for sequencing external midi instruments, afterall |
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___PsyTom
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Posted : Sep 12, 2001 15:28:08
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That's right. I'm just trying all sorts of setups, you know, just for fun :).
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___KhelProject
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Posted : Sep 12, 2001 15:35:31
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It is not metter what number you have after the
word pentium :)
I guess from the details you gave me...the Cubase
will work good, but pentium 3 or 4 with 512 RAM,
30 GB (7200 RPM) HD and Luna Sound Card is...:)
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___MichaelA
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Posted : Sep 17, 2001 14:40:19
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I had a PII 233 with 64 RAM. Cubase didn't even start. But I don't think it's because of the CPU and memory. |
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___DCQ
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Posted : Sep 17, 2001 17:42:26
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could well be because of lack of hard disk space
i dont know about cubase, but cakewalk needs a lot of hard disk space, as this is how it works with audio, with its own file saving system (uses it up very quickly though) |
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