Subject:ACID Pro 2.0 and XFX 1 problems

Posted by: w3artiste

Date:4/10/2000 3:02:00 PM

I am experiencing stutters and gaps in playback if I add
more than one simultaneous XFX1 effect to my acid songs.
I'd like to know why this is happening when I have a
pentium II, 450MHZ, with 128MB of RAM. I have no other
programs running in the background and I even use task
manager to unload any resident programs from memory. I
can't understand why you supply eight simultaneous FX buses
when I can't even utilize two without maxing out the CPU!
What can I do to remedy this problem?

Subject:Re: ACID Pro 2.0 and XFX 1 problems

Reply by: w3artiste

Date:4/11/2000 7:09:00 AM

DOH! I answered my own question after reading the Acid FAQ on this
site. I had too many hard disk files playing at once. After I moved
them to RAM as "one-shots" the problem stopped.

steve blatt wrote:
>>I am experiencing stutters and gaps in playback if I add
>>more than one simultaneous XFX1 effect to my acid songs.
>>I'd like to know why this is happening when I have a
>>pentium II, 450MHZ, with 128MB of RAM. I have no other
>>programs running in the background and I even use task
>>manager to unload any resident programs from memory. I
>>can't understand why you supply eight simultaneous FX buses
>>when I can't even utilize two without maxing out the CPU!
>>What can I do to remedy this problem?

Subject:Re: ACID Pro 2.0 and XFX 1 problems

Reply by: davidl9999

Date:4/16/2000 9:25:00 PM

Steve,

You didn't mention whether or not you are using disk-based audio,
how many tracks you are processing, or how much RAM is used by your
song(s). In general, the CPU has to process just about everything, and
it sometimes doesn't take much to put it over the edge. Things to
check for: 1) Don't use more than one, maybe two disk-based audio
tracks. 2) Check the "RAM-meter", and keep it out of the red. 3) Lots
of audio = lots of processing. Which means that the CPU is less able
to handle the additional load of effects.

Like my Music Professor says: "Sometimes, less is more..."

If you have some tracks that you process heavily on, and you do not
need to make any further changes on the track, try doing the
processing in Sound Forge, and then use the processed loop in Acid.
That way, the CPU doesn't have to do as much work during playback. The
obvious drawback here is that it is a pain, and the pre-processed loop
probably won't lend itself well to further processing in Acid.

I use an AMD K6-2/450 with 128MB and a SB Live. I occasionally have
issues like yours. If nothing else works, look into a faster CPU.

Good luck!
- David

steve blatt wrote:
>>I am experiencing stutters and gaps in playback if I add
>>more than one simultaneous XFX1 effect to my acid songs.
>>I'd like to know why this is happening when I have a
>>pentium II, 450MHZ, with 128MB of RAM. I have no other
>>programs running in the background and I even use task
>>manager to unload any resident programs from memory. I
>>can't understand why you supply eight simultaneous FX buses
>>when I can't even utilize two without maxing out the CPU!
>>What can I do to remedy this problem?

Subject:Re: ACID Pro 2.0 and XFX 1 problems

Reply by: davidl9999

Date:4/16/2000 9:27:00 PM

Double-Doh!
I just realized I was on the wrong message in the thread. Good job
figuring out the problem, Steve.

David Lieberman wrote:
>>Steve,
>>
>>You didn't mention whether or not you are using disk-based audio,
>>how many tracks you are processing, or how much RAM is used by your
>>song(s). In general, the CPU has to process just about everything,
and
>>it sometimes doesn't take much to put it over the edge. Things to
>>check for: 1) Don't use more than one, maybe two disk-based audio
>>tracks. 2) Check the "RAM-meter", and keep it out of the red. 3)
Lots
>>of audio = lots of processing. Which means that the CPU is less able
>>to handle the additional load of effects.
>>
>>Like my Music Professor says: "Sometimes, less is more..."
>>
>>If you have some tracks that you process heavily on, and you do not
>>need to make any further changes on the track, try doing the
>>processing in Sound Forge, and then use the processed loop in Acid.
>>That way, the CPU doesn't have to do as much work during playback.
The
>>obvious drawback here is that it is a pain, and the pre-processed
loop
>>probably won't lend itself well to further processing in Acid.
>>
>>I use an AMD K6-2/450 with 128MB and a SB Live. I occasionally have
>>issues like yours. If nothing else works, look into a faster CPU.

>>
>>Good luck!
>>- David
>>
>>steve blatt wrote:
>>>>I am experiencing stutters and gaps in playback if I add
>>>>more than one simultaneous XFX1 effect to my acid songs.
>>>>I'd like to know why this is happening when I have a
>>>>pentium II, 450MHZ, with 128MB of RAM. I have no other
>>>>programs running in the background and I even use task
>>>>manager to unload any resident programs from memory. I
>>>>can't understand why you supply eight simultaneous FX buses
>>>>when I can't even utilize two without maxing out the CPU!
>>>>What can I do to remedy this problem?