PC requirements for PT HD

[Media Man]

I've noticed on the website that only 64 bit processors with specific computers are recommended. Will PT HD run on a computer with a high speed Pentium 4? I seem to remember being told this by a Digi rep.

When HD came out a couple of years ago, wasn't a P4 considered adequate?

Mark

[steve at Your Heaven]

See minimum requirements page in 'Compatibility' link above:

Minimum Computer Specification Guidelines & Known Issues

http://www.digidesign.com/compato/xp/hd/min.cfm

[nikki-k]

IMO, it is more a buss bandwidth and RAM issue than anything else. Hard drive performance is a given.

Once audio is in the TDM enviornment, things are great...it is getting recorded audio into the enviornment that is the tricky part. Live input is funneled in directly, since the A/D-D/A I/Os are hooked directly to the "TDM Mixer." All the host needs to do is get recorded audio in, and handle the GUI.

BTW- this is one lump reason why the argument about TDM being unneeded due to better host DSP being available is moot.

[N-G-NEER]

HI Nikki,

Another is reliability. It has been my experience that the Host powered systems will unexpectedly crap out at the worst posible times and in comparison that almost never happens on a TDM system. But others may have had different experience.

[nikki-k]

Definitely!
This is one of the prime reasons I try to avoid RTAS on my machine. If I have to use an instrument...well, that is when I start looking for that rabbit's foot....

Recent point releases (since v6) have kind of let stability take a back seat. I am really (really, REALLY) hoping the next version will tackle the internals over expanded feature sets.

That said, I am finding the recent Nuendo3 release to be suprisingly robust...not quite on par with TDM tho...and definitely lacking the latency during record irregardless of size of session thing that TDM affords us