1 Topic by wurria (edited by wurria 2011-05-11 10:56:15)

  • Registered: 2011-05-11
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Topic: time 4 new laptop, recomendations for best latency win xp with ff uc??

its time to buy a new laptop
i´m currently using lenovo n200  dual core2ghz, 2gb, intel graphics, ic8 usb chipset
and im not very happy with latency numbers i can work with
256 with reasonable sized projects and 512 with my live set.
before uc i was using maudio firewire which worked pretty fine on 128

im using ableton live 7 in win xp sp1
i use my laptop only for audio and i´ve turned everything else off
and i also turned off all unnecessary services from regedit
(i have to use win xp and live 7 cause theres this one little
workflow enchancement tool that only works in live 6/7 and win xp)

so recomend me some quality laptops which has been proved
to work with low latency

also i would like to know, is there lot of differencies (latency wise) between
xp and win7?? , i know uc works better in osx..

thaks!!

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Re: time 4 new laptop, recomendations for best latency win xp with ff uc??

UC doesn't work better on OS X. Some would even say it works slightly better on Windows (7).

  • Registered: 2011-05-11
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Re: time 4 new laptop, recomendations for best latency win xp with ff uc??

well happy to hear that !  i think i could work somehow with win7 , and im not really a big fan of apple stuff anyways..
but everything goes really, its all about the best usability/latency for me.  the reason why i wrote that osx argument
was because i read some uc reviews (soundonsound etc. etc.)
and by the way,  is there any necessary services that i may have turned off from regedit that affects to latency ?
it´s kinda strange that it doesn´t work flawlessly even on 128 , i don´t even use VSTi´s , just a couple of Vst fx´s..

thanks!!

  • Registered: 2008-01-01
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Re: time 4 new laptop, recomendations for best latency win xp with ff uc??

On Windows (7) services have little to do with audio latencies/performance. Use this to get a hint of whether another driver/hardware is the culprit: http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

On XP use the "Always On" (or "Desktop") power-profile, on W7 use the "High Performance" power-profile.

Try setting Live's CPU priority to "realtime" via Task-Manager (needs to run "As Administrator" or chose "Chose processes of all users" on W7 to allow that).