CPU OVERLOAD

[Friend]

HI,

I'm using

Toshiba Notebook P4 2.6
2 Gigs
Firewire external 250
PT 6.7 on Mbox 1

I have been using it smoothly for recording straight audio. But when i rewire Reason 3.0 and try to load heavy Steinway piano samples (96kb) I get an internal error message in Reason. Yet if I load lighter samples (85kb) I receive no error. I can play the midi and can press the sustain pedal.....but when I record it overloads the computer and I get a freeze. Is my computer too weak?

Also I am having trouble with Amplitube 2. If I launch amplitube itself, I plug in and it sounds fine. But when I rewire through PT and record, the recorded version sounds lite with less presence. Amplitube FX stomp box also eats my computer and I've had trouble just recording.

Please tell me there's some useless windows program I can disable to free up my cpu.

Thanks

[jfitz]

do you have wireless on the laptop? if so, make sure it's disabled.
(mine has a button for "wireless assistant"... I have to turn it off every time I use pro tools or else it will go haywire)

[Friend]

Yes, the wireless is disabled......I don't connect to the internet on this machine.
Thanks

[StavrosSound]

The file size you are referring to for the Steinway is just the patch aka data file telling Reason what to load... much like a text file. Most paches are loading about 20 files or so, a total of 20MB in .aif samples, if you watch when it loads. The Steinway though, if you're referring to the one from the Piano refill, loads anywhere from 500-1000 samples for the piano, loading well over 200MB of samples, if not close to 500MB... that's why it lags and gives you errors. I mean, there's a reason the entire refill is over 1.5GB in size

As per CPU hogs on a PC:

- AIM and other 'commercial' IM apps (AIM steals about 60MB or more)
- Windows Indexing Service
- iTunes (runs at about 40-50MB on idle)
- Internet Explorer webpages (each open window runs a 20MB or so iexplorer process)

Basically, close just about every other app when running ProTools.