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Speeding up your DAW if using Windows

Particle Matters

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Posted : May 10, 2012 00:51:51

Speeding up your DAW if using Windows
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Sure this has been previously been covered but recently found the following app works quite well on turning off unnecessary services and giving the power a boost

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

This works quite well for those unsure of which services to stop when composing or playing live in a DAW

You might need to tweak the setting to decide what it turns off.

For the more technically minded amongst us here is a link my sound card provider gives to tweak for tweaking to get more power in windows 7
(I think XP links are there as well)
It will take more time to do this but good to try and learn how to tweak or get someone to do|:

http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/en/article.php?id=1088

http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/en/article.php?id=1071

http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

or check out black viper guides

I tested the Gamebooster application using ableton and found it gave me 20% more cpu power but sometimes caused crashes when working on rendering and flattening tracks/stems it worked well for writing and using power hungry VST'S though.

Might be worth trying but I'm sure there are other programs to do similar things tho and might not apply if u already turn stuff off when working or already tweaked.

It might also help to identify whats good to turn off so no need to use the application all the time.

The game booster was recommended by Mental Forest

http://soundcloud.com/mental-forest

Another technique I have seen is putting mac onto PC/Laptop to speed up - boot up time reduced significantly etc rather than windows but I think only possible to do on some systems.

If anyone else has tips or info pls share

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jonsta
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Posted : May 10, 2012 05:30

I use gamebooster aswell. If you use Win7 set your DAW to full priority. Ctrl+alt+del and delete all useless processes from your graph card and terminate explorer.exe.

This helps me a lot.

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Grevinsky
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Posted : May 11, 2012 16:42

Good tip, thank you ill try it. I really need to speed up my computer

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Sunrise Travellers
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Posted : May 11, 2012 17:34

Also a good way is to use your computer only for music production, only the necessary things that you need (daw, vsts, samples, audio editor etc). I try to keep my pc clean from multimedia apps or games and for that reason i use a second pc for such things.

...into the wild....

soospicey
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Posted : May 11, 2012 18:07

good info here, without the need for additional software

http://www.native-instruments.com/knowledge/categories/Installation+%26+Configuration/Windows/Software/

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jekvan
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Posted : May 13, 2012 03:40

Exce-fucking-lent,I tried this today,my track in Ableton started to lag on me,and walla walla,more room to breathe!!

From all the things I lost,that sandwitch cost me most :)

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knocz
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Posted : May 13, 2012 08:21

Quote:

On 2012-05-10 05:30, jonsta wrote:
I use gamebooster aswell. If you use Win7 set your DAW to full priority. Ctrl+alt+del and delete all useless processes from your graph card and terminate explorer.exe.

This helps me a lot.

Well, if you want to kill explorer, you might as well not even start it..

You can make your DAW the default user interface for your computer (at logon, instead of calling explorer.exe it can call whatever you like)

Quote:

Start->Run->GPEDIT.MSC->user config->admin templates->system-> right hand pane look for (custom user interface) and change this over to point to your front end.

Taken from here (1st reply): http://www.mp3car.com/winnt-based/46088-how-to-change-windows-shell.html

Super Banana Sauce http://www.soundcloud.com/knocz

Particle Matters

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Posted : May 15, 2012 03:20

Yep.

Good to separate the musical workstation from the internet/game station

I also hear good things of using 1 main comp set for producing and another networked this means you can use your main one for producing but if waiting for stuff to render or something can quickly switch to comp2 and do some sampling or something but also have access to information on both.

Another thing if rendering try going into task manager and setting priority of process used to render to high or above high speeds up rendering time in some cases.

ansolas
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Posted : May 15, 2012 22:10

Best boost ever is to get a SSD

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Alien Bug
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Posted : May 15, 2012 23:16

yeah, in my country ssd cost same as a new computer. its real deal...

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