ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee? -ACID Product Family

Subject:ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee? Posted by: Angel909 Date:3/4/2009 4:36:05 PM I would like to get an Asus Eee with all solid state drives on it, as a mobile recording rig, and also do basic mixing. This would be with Win XP Home and a Tascam US-122. Has anybody had an opportunity to put an Eee to the test? If so, please post here, I'd much appreciate it.
Subject:RE: ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee? Reply by: jumbuk Date:3/4/2009 5:27:43 PM I'm using a eeePC 901 with a Tascam US-122 and Acid. Bear in mind that the WinXP drive in the eeePC is the fast SLC one, the secondary drive is a slower MLC drive. There is not a lot of room on the SLC drive. You can install Acid, but not much else. The MLC is too slow to run audio software without glitches. You can buy a replacement SLC for the secondary drive, but they are expensive. I have managed to get Sonar running reasonably well off the secondary drive, but only with small projects. Both Acid and Sonar seem to be fairly efficient. Anything with a non-windows graphic interface seems to chew up too much CPU to run properly. The eeePC 901 was my choice because: - fully solid-state drives, so immune to dropping etc - bigger battery - can last nearly all day without charging (without peripherals) You need to optimise everything for adio in the usual way. I just got a Korg nano controller set, to make the ultimate portable studio. PS The internal soundcard works Ok with ASIO4ALL for mobile mixing and song construction, once you have recorded your tracks. Message last edited on3/4/2009 5:29:15 PM byjumbuk.
Subject:RE: ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee? Reply by: Angel909 Date:3/17/2009 2:20:45 PM Thanks Jumbuk. I'd also be interested in hearing how well the Korg Nano stuff works with ACID, either on the Eee, or just in general. Thanks, Angel909

Subject:ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee?

Posted by: Angel909

Date:3/4/2009 4:36:05 PM

I would like to get an Asus Eee with all solid state drives on it, as a mobile recording rig, and also do basic mixing. This would be with Win XP Home and a Tascam US-122.

Has anybody had an opportunity to put an Eee to the test? If so, please post here, I'd much appreciate it.

Subject:RE: ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee?

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:3/4/2009 5:27:43 PM

I'm using a eeePC 901 with a Tascam US-122 and Acid.

Bear in mind that the WinXP drive in the eeePC is the fast SLC one, the secondary drive is a slower MLC drive.

There is not a lot of room on the SLC drive. You can install Acid, but not much else.

The MLC is too slow to run audio software without glitches. You can buy a replacement SLC for the secondary drive, but they are expensive.

I have managed to get Sonar running reasonably well off the secondary drive, but only with small projects. Both Acid and Sonar seem to be fairly efficient. Anything with a non-windows graphic interface seems to chew up too much CPU to run properly.

The eeePC 901 was my choice because:

- fully solid-state drives, so immune to dropping etc
- bigger battery - can last nearly all day without charging (without peripherals)

You need to optimise everything for adio in the usual way.

I just got a Korg nano controller set, to make the ultimate portable studio.

PS The internal soundcard works Ok with ASIO4ALL for mobile mixing and song construction, once you have recorded your tracks.

Message last edited on3/4/2009 5:29:15 PM byjumbuk.

Subject:RE: ACID and Sound Forge on Asus Eee?

Reply by: Angel909

Date:3/17/2009 2:20:45 PM

Thanks Jumbuk. I'd also be interested in hearing how well the Korg Nano stuff works with ACID, either on the Eee, or just in general.

Thanks,
Angel909