what is the best computer set-up for maschine?

Hi EW! i think you have been on the money with answering questions. I just have 2 questions though...

i currently have a pentium 4 (3.2) w/ 4g ram running windows xp. m audio - delta soundcard.

Maschine works good as a stand alone but i hear slight pops in the audio now and then. When i start loading instruments the sound starts cracking more. My comp cannot handle it as a vst in nuendo.

I am looking to get a core duo but I want to make sure that this can handle maschine and allow me to work to the max.

Second... I can't find the original installation disc that came with maschine. Is there any way to get a replacement or download another copy?

thanks again...

 

Welcome =)

First of all, turn off hyperthreading and see if that helps.
As far as what to get, almost any modern computer should work OK. My two going on three year old AMD works fine with Maschine for the most part.

Your install disk- contact support. As long as you're registered, they'll ship you a replacement for a nominal cost.

ew

 

lol... thanks for the info... you would think my computer is a core duo now... im very impressed with the drum kits however im still adjusting to the instruments. I will get back to you though...

 

EW,
Where or How do you turn off hyperthreading?
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I just looked in the BIOS, no option for HT. I have a new PC desktop, running WIN XP SP3.

 

Are you sure about hyperthreading? I have a Core i7 940 and I seem to get really good results with hyperthreading.

 

That probably to be expected with the most cutting edge CPU available...

 

hypertradings is a form of dual processing
i think ,they mean dual processing is not good with maschine .you buying pentium 4
duocore is not good .?

 

If you don't have a P4 or an i7, you don't have HT.

The i7's HT implementation's better than the P4's- true. And, you have more raw horsepower to begin with.

However, with any HT processor you're going to see a tradeoff. An app will see a HT core as two cores at half the speed- a 2.6 Hz HT core will be seen as two 1.3 GHz processors.

ew

 

ew said:The i7's HT implementation's better than the P4's- true. And, you have more raw horsepower to begin with....


that means: intelduocore is not optimal?:angry:


So we have our slow computer to buy back.

what a madness. where ni is working?

REASON FOR ME TO HAVE PROBLEMS TIMMING; WITH MY MACHINE SEQUENCER:
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

Ah- where did I say that?

ew

 

yes but where man says what is right?

 

NI Maschine doesn't support multi-core processing which is completely ass backwards since using any of their plug-ins is like throwing a wet blanket over your CPU.

Practically every DAW on the market supports multi-core processing. It has dramatically enhanced performance in Live.

I'm curious to know why this isn't being corrected asap...
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And for the record, I believe "hyperthreading" is now branded as Multiplexing on new computers. My PC is a quad-core. I turned OFF multiplexing to A/B test Maschine performance and it resulted in 10% HIGHER CPU using Maschine within Ableton. The same project was loaded.

 

If this is true and not predicted, it is a criminal offense. everybody uses modern computer:
How poor is this, the machine needs at least 2 times to 2Ghz ever to function normally.

ps........
also have strong Timming changes at the loop transition and repetition.

 

Note you say that DAWs support multicore- not plugins.

The only plugins that I'm aware that support multithreading are the big samplers such as Kontakt. Why don't others? Thread distribution takes time- you have to bump up the latency by 3-5 ms in a best case scenario to have glitch free audio and multithread capabilities. Your hosts can compensate for it; your plugins can't.

Maschine as it was originally released supported multiple cores. The 1.0.2 update took that out, as the tradeoff between latency and multithreading didn't make it feasible for a lot of users. It may be back at some time though.
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There's a difference between multiple cores (multiplexing) and multiple threads on the same core (hyperthreading).

ew