Billy86

Thanks! This community is incredible, from the committed bakers to the experienced and helpful bakees!

Am getting a brand new computer. Dell i9. Stoked! Will have the stock 1 tb hard drive. Am adding a 1 tb NVMe M.2 Samsung SSD. Will remove the bloatware. I run mainly Waves and Izotope plugins. Not shy using them. Also use AD2 drums and keys, Steven Slate, EZ Drummer, EZ Keys, Kontakt 6 with multiple instruments. So, ample virtual instruments depending on the song. Will obviously run the OS (Windows 10) and CbB on the SSD. Want to take most advantage of the SSD for all the stuff I use. What should be on it? All the plugins? Kontakt? All the VSTi programs? What about the samples, which can be large? What can stay on HHD to save space on the SSD? Thanks!

Thank you. Great resource. Though I’m not looking at the “K” series, which can be overclocked, the difference between the straight 9700 and 9900 would be in the same ballpark.

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Thanks for sharing this, Colin. Nice work. I'm looking at a Dell XPS 8930 (i7, maybe i9) right now and am eager to see the performance jump from a third generation i5 that just died on me. Just wish I could use the 32gigs of DDR3 Ram from the old machine in the new one (DDR4) , but I've read that's not possible. A new NVMe SSD to run things should help too!

LOL! Of course! Faster, higher, farther...!!!!

Hi. Thanks for the response. I'm not shy when it comes to plugins, for better or worse! 😉 I like trying a lot of things and was consistently maxing out my Gen 3 i5 machine. Got to be pain. From what I've discovered while researching a new computer and the specs, hyper-threading has little to no effect on audio processing because audio processing is linear, while hyper-threading is a parallel process, two threads per core, which is great for some apps that can take advantage of that, or in the case where the users is constantly multitasking, which a number of programs all running at the same time. I try to run only CbB. That being said, "multitasking" is an interesting concept, and I suppose other programs/applications running in the background while CbB is also running running (is the computer multitasking?) might be able to benefit from hyper-threading -- freeing up more resources for CbB. Guess, what I'm trying to determine is if there is a point of diminishing returns between the two chips, given the performance difference between a latest generation i7 and a latest generation i9. The i9 might be a bit of future-proofing since I'll likely have this new computer for years. I'm leaning toward the i9 for that reason. Thanks again. I enjoy reading your responses on a variety of topics...

Is i9 overkill for home studio recording mixing? An extra $170 gets me to an i9 9900 up from an i7 9700. Will pair with a super fast SSN. Brand new machine. 16 gigs DDR4 ram.

I think the issue with AMD/Ryzen is that some plugins don’t work well. Benchmark performance on the top of the Ryzen line is definitely blazing though.

Hi. Yep. Everything I’m looking at supports that protocol. Can’t wait for the speed upgrade, even from a SATA SSD I was using in the crashed computer. Thanks.

Yeah, me too. I started with the free and bumped up. For the price, it seemed a no-brainer.

Thanks so much. Have you ever heard of/used this: https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/ I been using it for a few years on my computer and it prevents cores from parking, spreading the work load. It made a big difference for my old i5; before using it, core 1 would nearly max out before any other core engaged and the CPU would really chug. After installing it I could see my 4 cores working evenly in the performance monitor and the GUI park control has. Easy to configure depending on what you need. It has a "highest performance" mode which I believe automatically overrides all the Windows power management settings.

Hmm. Confused about this. I'm looking at a new Dell computer and have been looking into the issue of hyper-threading because the current 9th gen i7 doesn't have it, and the 8th gen i7 did. From what I've been able to learn, hyper-threading has little to no impact on DAW production because the read/write process is serial in a DAW, so it doesn't benefit from hyper-threading, which is a parallel read/write process (two threads per core, so two parallel processes). Am I understanding this correctly? Thanks.

i got the Focusrite "updated drivers" email as well. I have a first-gen 2i4. The last time I tried their updated driver, it caused all kinds of issues. I rolled back at that time and am still using the original driver with no problems. Pretty disappointing that it seems to be an issue AGAIN.

Well… The computer BSOD went from bad to worse, no matter what I did. Death spiral. So, my ol' Dell 3rd gen i5 3450 has moved on to the great silicone ranch in the sky. It served me well for 8 years, from my office then down-streamed into the music room. Fortunately, I back up my data to an external drive. The good news is, I have the chance to buy a new DAW computer. I've had good luck with Dell for years, so that's where I'll go again. All I’ll use it for is recording/mixing. Web browsing when needed. Any tech-savvy advice for getting the most bang for the buck appreciated! I know it’s a balance of budget versus performance. I’m thinking CPU speed is Job 1. Thoughts? I’ll have at least 16 gigs of DDR4 Ram. My go to plug-ins are typically Waves, Izotope, SoundToys and a couple of Eventide. And I also do some MIDI and run virtual instruments, primarily Kontakt and Addictive Drums. No matter what I get, I’m going to install a Samsung NVMe SSD to run the OS and CbB (should I also run all the plugins and VSTi’s off of it?) I'm looking at at clean start on the configuration... Thanks for any wisdom on the technical stuff...

+1 would also love to access drum maps if available to the community. I got EZ Drummer, AD2 and Slate.

Thanks everyone. I’m going to start with the VST reset/rescan and hope that takes care of it. Would prefer not to have to open the hood of the OS and start mucking around. The problem seemed to start when I added a particular VSTi plugin. CbB locked up and crashed, then the other issues started kicking in. I can’t open the project to remove that VSTi to see if that makes a difference. Hopefully the reset will clear it up. I’ll post back when I do this. Appreciate the help. Billy

Hope someone can help.... I'm randomly running into the Blue Screen of Death after the latest Windows update (Version 1903) when launching the latest CbB version., 2019/07. I seem to be able to launch CbB projects with low track counts and plugins (hit or miss), but not the hefty one I'm in the middle of. Crashes every time with references to problem plugin.dlls spread among the ones in the project. The blue screen says this... STOP CODE: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. I have no idea what that means. I tried to troubleshoot based on this: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-fix-page-fault-error-windows-10,36234.html The "scan now" function resulted in this message: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at... and it showed me where the log is on my hard drive. Opened it; again no idea what it's telling me. I'm running the latest Windows 10 home edition on an SSD. The next thing on the troubleshooting list suggests setting a custom size for the page file. To what? It doesn't say. I have 32 gigs RAM. Any ideas what I should try next? Thanks...

I see this is marked SOLVED, but don’t see the definitive answer to the issue. Did I miss something?

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Thanks for this. I was struggling with this very thing yesterday, trying to insert a sustain pedal on/off in PRV to keep chords from overlapping/ running into each other, as one would do with an actual pedal on a piano. Lots to learn in midi. One thing the manual referenced was paying attention to what the event filter on the track is set to. I’ll have to explore that further. Thanks again.

I have KRK6 monitors and there is absolutely no noise problem. Very first thing to do is run balanced cables. I don’t think RCA cables are balanced so that could be a problem if your interface only has RCAs out. EDIT: I see you solved.

I have no problems with CBB and Waves plugs. But I think the Waves shell I’m using is up to something like version 9. If you launch waves central, it will check to see if you need to update anything.

This. I was having MIDI note weirdness and increased the buffer size to 2500 and haven’t had a problem since. If your buffer’s too low notes can get passed by unprocessed.

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