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Successful Hard Drive Recording on Windows 95 PC

Daniel wrote: Andrew, I use Cake 6.0 too , but I have no success in audio . My computer is Pentium 166MMX , 32 MB RAM...

Windows 95 is not a good OS for HD recording due to it's multitasking nature. Lots of stuff happens behind your back and the caching and swapping schemes in particular can be nasty to audio recordings. Also, Win 95 does not give particularly high priorities to MIDI processes.

However, a friend of mine uses Cakewalk 6.0 under Win 95, and has succesfully recorded up to 14 parallel tracks of audio+loads of MIDI tracks on a P133.

Make sure no unnecessary processes are running in the background, like virus scanning programs, task schedulers, MS Office task bars/quick search etc.

Use a SCSI HD for your recordings as SCSI uses much less CPU time than IDE bus transfers.

Don't record to the drive your swap file is located to.

Turn off auto insert notification for you're CD ROM.

Search the net for a small program called Grandma. With that you can change how much priority Windows gives to each of it's running processes. Set Cakewalks priority to 13 or 24.

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Date: 4 Dec 1997

1998/01


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