WingsOfAnAngel
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* Check musicxp.net for a nice list of great tips on how to turn Windows XP into the ultimate audio machine.
* Make good use "Switch smart disable for all" feature. You'll find it on the top left of the mixer where you get the options up!
* Use less stuff. (VSTis | Plugins | Samples)
* Get more memory / faster CPU - Atleast 512Mb Ram for Windows XP/2000 and atleast 256 for Windows 98
* Get a decent sound card with ASIO
* Set your latency. This setting changes how much time the processor has to complete its calculations.
o Set your latency higher if it can't seem to take what your throwing at it and you get underruns.
o Set your latency lower if you experience too long a wait between pressing a key on the keyboard, and actually hearing the note being played.
* If u do not have ASIO, use polling and the hardware buffer with the Direct-X drivers.
* Render out some stuff to wav and drop it back into an audio-clip on the audio track.
* Maybe try out the kx Project ASIO drivers if you own an SB live/audigy.
* Close all other programs that you are not using, and try not to use VST's when a simple wav sample will do just the same job.
* Reboot before you load Fruityloops.
* Check [Start > Run > 'msconfig'] for programs that load on startup and disable all non essensials.
* Do a clean install of windows, with just the essentials installed.
* Defragment your hard drives once a month overnight.
* Most people have spyware hidden on their computers. Installed secretly from web sites or software to track users and find their web surfing stats and visited sites, when you return to the site, they will advertise to you products and services to meet your stats from their advertising group. Often, software like 'Gator' is bunded in with other software almost like a trojan (but still fully legal) that sits there loaded in the background, replacing legitimate advertising from all sites with its own adverts! anyway, the worst problem people have with all this is that is uses cpu, memory, and lags the system down (Specially if you have never even 'cleaned' your system before, or didn't know about it.)
To fix, download, install, and run these apps once a week to clean out pretty much all the crap from your system for good:
Ad-Aware (Download)
SpyBot Search & Destroy (Download)
* Get an antivirus program. Viruses apart from the obvious dangers, can stay resident for a long time undetected, simply draining the system eventually to a halt. You can get a very good one called AVG anti-virus free from here. My problem with anti-virus programs though, is most of them want to stay resident, but as were trying to get your system resources lowered here, I'd suggest just turning the real time scanner option off, or using an online scanner like Trend Micro Housecall every now and then.
* Surgically add and remove Windows features, speed up your desktop and boot times and totally remove technology you dont want or need with XPlite or 98lite from LitePC
* Tweak Windows XP with Tweak-XP
* Make good use "Switch smart disable for all" feature. You'll find it on the top left of the mixer where you get the options up!
* Use less stuff. (VSTis | Plugins | Samples)
* Get more memory / faster CPU - Atleast 512Mb Ram for Windows XP/2000 and atleast 256 for Windows 98
* Get a decent sound card with ASIO
* Set your latency. This setting changes how much time the processor has to complete its calculations.
o Set your latency higher if it can't seem to take what your throwing at it and you get underruns.
o Set your latency lower if you experience too long a wait between pressing a key on the keyboard, and actually hearing the note being played.
* If u do not have ASIO, use polling and the hardware buffer with the Direct-X drivers.
* Render out some stuff to wav and drop it back into an audio-clip on the audio track.
* Maybe try out the kx Project ASIO drivers if you own an SB live/audigy.
* Close all other programs that you are not using, and try not to use VST's when a simple wav sample will do just the same job.
* Reboot before you load Fruityloops.
* Check [Start > Run > 'msconfig'] for programs that load on startup and disable all non essensials.
* Do a clean install of windows, with just the essentials installed.
* Defragment your hard drives once a month overnight.
* Most people have spyware hidden on their computers. Installed secretly from web sites or software to track users and find their web surfing stats and visited sites, when you return to the site, they will advertise to you products and services to meet your stats from their advertising group. Often, software like 'Gator' is bunded in with other software almost like a trojan (but still fully legal) that sits there loaded in the background, replacing legitimate advertising from all sites with its own adverts! anyway, the worst problem people have with all this is that is uses cpu, memory, and lags the system down (Specially if you have never even 'cleaned' your system before, or didn't know about it.)
To fix, download, install, and run these apps once a week to clean out pretty much all the crap from your system for good:
Ad-Aware (Download)
SpyBot Search & Destroy (Download)
* Get an antivirus program. Viruses apart from the obvious dangers, can stay resident for a long time undetected, simply draining the system eventually to a halt. You can get a very good one called AVG anti-virus free from here. My problem with anti-virus programs though, is most of them want to stay resident, but as were trying to get your system resources lowered here, I'd suggest just turning the real time scanner option off, or using an online scanner like Trend Micro Housecall every now and then.
* Surgically add and remove Windows features, speed up your desktop and boot times and totally remove technology you dont want or need with XPlite or 98lite from LitePC
* Tweak Windows XP with Tweak-XP
