External sound card to help reducing CPU stress? |
External sound card to help reducing CPU stress? |
 Sep 20 2012, 17:13
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Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 20-September 12 Member No.: 103290  |
Hello. Hope to find an answer to this little problem of mine.
I sometimes run Ableton Live 8.2 on a Samsung laptop (windows 8 64bit). When playing above around 10 tracks with effects ecc (without "freezing" them) the CPU load indicator tends to go over 100% and everything is messed up. The bottleneck of this computer is clearly the CPU: it's and AMD A6 4455 "trinity"(dual core). It's clearly not a great processor but it's still brand new and I thought it could handle some more stress by Ableton. Now, my question is: Would an external sound card help taking off some CPU stress when processing audio? (Maybe dedicated drivers instead of Asio4all might help?) In that case, what kind of external sound card should I buy? (I'd like to buy one anyways) Thank you in advance. PS: sorry about my goofy english! |
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Sep 20 2012, 17:20
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QUOTE (Katatsumuri @ Sep 20 2012, 12:13)  Would an external sound card help taking off some CPU stress when processing audio? (Maybe dedicated drivers instead of Asio4all might help?) No, sound cards do not perform processing of audio in the sense that you're interested in. Only a CPU can do that. |
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Sep 23 2012, 01:42
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Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 10-September 12 Member No.: 103044 |
QUOTE (saratoga @ Sep 20 2012, 17:20) QUOTE (Katatsumuri @ Sep 20 2012, 12:13) Would an external sound card help taking off some CPU stress when processing audio? (Maybe dedicated drivers instead of Asio4all might help?) No, sound cards do not perform processing of audio in the sense that you're interested in. Only a CPU can do that. UAD Apollo?  Avid HDX?as to the original problem, well, there is some reason why macbook pros are used by professionals |
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Katatsumuri External sound card to help reducing CPU stress? Sep 20 2012, 17:13
yourlord You have some other issue.. That CPU should barely... Sep 20 2012, 17:47
dhromed QUOTE (yourlord @ Sep 20 2012, 18:47) You... Sep 20 2012, 18:48 washu QUOTE (dhromed @ Sep 20 2012, 13:48) Pret... Sep 20 2012, 19:46 Arnold B. Krueger QUOTE (washu @ Sep 20 2012, 14:46) QUOTE ... Sep 20 2012, 20:12 washu QUOTE (Arnold B. Krueger @ Sep 20 2012, 15... Sep 20 2012, 20:24 Katatsumuri Thank you for answering, you're really helping... Sep 20 2012, 18:46 saratoga QUOTE (Katatsumuri @ Sep 20 2012, 13:46) ... Sep 20 2012, 19:00 DVDdoug Some effects can take lots of processing power. ... Sep 20 2012, 18:50 Katatsumuri QUOTE (DVDdoug @ Sep 20 2012, 19:50) A ... Sep 20 2012, 19:04 yourlord A single Bulldozer core, while not the greatest th... Sep 20 2012, 20:55 Katatsumuri The point is that I don't think the hard disk ... Sep 21 2012, 08:36 Arnold B. Krueger QUOTE (Katatsumuri @ Sep 21 2012, 03:36) ... Sep 21 2012, 13:06 yourlord I'm not familiar with the program you're u... Sep 21 2012, 15:57 RonaldDumsfeld Ableton was a fantastic piece of software when it ... Sep 21 2012, 17:26 slks To address the original question - No, a new sound... Sep 22 2012, 09:04 washu QUOTE (slks @ Sep 22 2012, 04:04) isn... Sep 22 2012, 15:51 slks QUOTE (washu @ Sep 22 2012, 09:51) QUOTE ... Sep 23 2012, 21:46 washu slks:
You are correct about the A6 not being a tr... Sep 23 2012, 22:44 saratoga QUOTE (slks @ Sep 23 2012, 16:46) I'm... Sep 23 2012, 23:02 washu QUOTE (saratoga @ Sep 23 2012, 18:02) Sha... Sep 24 2012, 00:24 saratoga QUOTE (washu @ Sep 23 2012, 19:24) By tha... Sep 24 2012, 00:28 Katatsumuri Ok I get the point of DSP processing of just EQ an... Sep 22 2012, 10:25 punkrockdude Try to increase your latency/buffers in audio sett... Sep 22 2012, 21:54 Katatsumuri QUOTE (punkrockdude @ Sep 22 2012, 22:54)... Sep 23 2012, 00:06 washu QUOTE (Katatsumuri @ Sep 22 2012, 19:06) ... Sep 23 2012, 00:27 phofman It takes just a single coding blunder to make any ... Sep 24 2012, 13:32 Gecko What happens when you use the standard audio devic... Sep 24 2012, 18:16 Katatsumuri QUOTE (washu @ Sep 23 2012, 23:44) Katats... Sep 25 2012, 00:47 washu QUOTE (Katatsumuri @ Sep 24 2012, 19:47) ... Sep 25 2012, 02:35 Katatsumuri Uninstalling the anti-virus software does not help... Sep 25 2012, 21:40 [JAZ] Mmm.. Are you using the same output samplerate on ... Sep 26 2012, 19:46 Katatsumuri I always work at 44khz.
Definitely need OpenCL su... Sep 27 2012, 09:25 |
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