So how often does this happen to you...

[5COPY]

That you computer can barely handle you project file? Or just takes million years to open it? Or do all of you here just have super computers that can handle everything?

To me it happens pretty often and it's one of the things that sometimes just can make me super unmotivated on even wanting to finish my project.

[soup2504]

It has happened to me quite a few times. I have always managed to work with it, though.

[colortwelve]

My music laptop is susceptible to CPU maxing, which actually got so frustrating for me the other day that I currently have one of my collabs in mixdown limbo.

[senntenial]

Just bounce the files to wav instead of using softsynth

[senntenial]

wut
lolmusicterminology

[Versilaryan]

I've got a super computer that can handle everything, but eventually, it gets to a point where Windows stops giving Ableton the resources it needs, and then it starts crashing every three minutes...

Usually, if I hit that point, it takes half a minute to open, too.

[KillerAmp]

Just bounce the files to wav instead of using softsynth

Usually when i'm writing a song, I group my synths and oscillators based on their friquencies and firing rates so that i can control them individually and overpower some at certain times and mix some portions so that they push forward in the mix. (i often do this with reverse autofilters going in opposite directions because it makes a good "opening" feeling)

It makes mastering a little bit easier because when I get to the points in my song where clipping occurs, all I need to do is go to the particular track that controls that frequency and master it down and automate it so I can return to the normal settings that work with "most" of the song.

Idk if anyone else does this, but it's a work-in-progress and i'm still working out the kinks.

That actually sounds like a very interesting and helpful way to make mastering easier, ill try it out on a test track later and see if it helps reduce the ammount of tracks i have to freeze and commit to. That way i can fix things later

[KillerAmp]

Oh and if youre having this issue, and youre not far enough in a track to bounce them to .wav's i would highly reccomend upgrading ram/cpu, if rams the issue, its a pretty cheep and easy fix, cpu on the other hand (if youre running on a laptop) wil require a lot of research and generally costs more.

But yeah if youre running out of ram, you can get a like 6-8 gig set for around $70-$120 deepending on quality.
Also to answer the question, yeah i run out of cpu when i get about 7-13tracks, mainly when I have a bunch of masive tracks running allong a few tracks of nexus (usually only happens in drops or builds in dubstep for me)

[Ed Viper]

That doesn't happen to me much on my own projects, because I know very well the limitations of my computer (it can also handle quite a bit - it's no wuss).

However, I had to drop out of a collab with Matthew N. because my comp couldn't run the freaking project - and we were far from done. I couldn't keep my name on the finished project because I had done very little due to my hardware limitations.

[KillerAmp]

That doesn't happen to me much on my own projects, because I know very well the limitations of my computer (it can also handle quite a bit - it's no wuss).

However, I had to drop out of a collab with Matthew N. because my comp couldn't run the freaking project - and we were far from done. I couldn't keep my name on the finished project because I had done very little due to my hardware limitations.

What had been the issue? Cpu? Ram? Other?
im just interested in seeing what computers are crashing from :3

[CommandSpry]

Doesn't happen to me because my music is shit :<

[K3WRO]

always happens to me, I just can't handle the lag, even a single drum pattern can reach up to 90% cpu

That's why I resample and master it in a different project file

[KillerAmp]

Doesn't happen to me because my music is shit :<

;_; nooooo usually when it happens to me it sucks because theres too much there xD u could just have a god computer too lol

[KillerAmp]

always happens to me, I just can't handle the lag, even a single drum pattern can reach up to 90% cpu

That's why I resample and master it in a different project file

0_o how old's the computer?/how fast is the cpu? o_0

[K3WRO]

always happens to me, I just can't handle the lag, even a single drum pattern can reach up to 90% cpu

That's why I resample and master it in a different project file

0_o how old's the computer?/how fast is the cpu? o_0

It's a vista. with a worn out duel core processor despite all these years of abuse, I feel sorry for it.

[vladnuke]

Oh you know me...



Inb4 brags about sexy compy, FL always loads, even with tons of effects and stuff. Core i7 + 16 gigs of ram= SANIC HEGEHOG FAST.

[K3WRO]

Oh you know me...



Inb4 brags about sexy compy, FL always loads, even with tons of effects and stuff. Core i7 + 16 gigs of ram= SANIC HEGEHOG FAST.

Core i3, with 8gigs of ram! I've got half of your CPU's Speed!

[Kopachris]

Oh you know me...



Inb4 brags about sexy compy, FL always loads, even with tons of effects and stuff. Core i7 + 16 gigs of ram= SANIC HEGEHOG FAST.

Core i3, with 8gigs of ram! I've got half of your CPU's Speed!

Core i7 with 8 gigs, here. Haven't had any problem yet, even with a lot of demanding synths. (Maybe I shouldn't say "a lot," as I haven't done a project with more than 10 tracks yet. )

[Jimmy]

This doesn't happen to me often, but Reason tends to slow down when I have a lot of audio/waveform data within the song, and the rest is MIDI with softsynths.

When I worked with Cubase and ProteusX at school, though, the program would insist on taking about 5-10 minutes to load a file because it had to load Proteus's entire library of synths before the file would even open. This got especially bad for the students in my class who had to write songs with more than 16 channels' worth of the program's voices, which meant they had to load two instances of Proteus into the Cubase... and half the lesson would be spent waiting for the goddamn thing to load. Honestly, students would come in several minutes before the lesson even started to start opening their files.

[vladnuke]

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[vladnuke]

Tbh, the ram is for vdja gaems. A good gaming rig is a good anything rig.

But srsly guys, build your own computer. It's fun, it's cheaper, it's better, it's more reliable, and it's a great learning experience. You can get some thing nasa quality from $1200 or less

[Raddons]

I just spent the last 2 hours mastering/rendering/blah a project and my cpu was shitting on me the whole time. If there was ever a time I wanted to rip my hair out, it was then.

It's now 6 AM. I must get some sleep to release this tomorrow.

I want to cry.

[Facade]

i've gotten to the point where it takes 10 minutes to open and will barely play at all

[Fimbulin]

Not yet. but supercomputer and soundfonts. lol dont judge me.

[North Kozar]

My desktop is actually pretty good at handling stuff when playing/opening/saving projects. It is kinda a super computer, but the stupid thing that makes tons of sense is how it takes forever to close projects. I don't actually understand because it isn't using any extra cpu processing power or anything. It just kinda sits there and laughs at me while I wait impatiently for it to close. It actually took about two minutes to close a project yesterday.