Sonar 4

[nonie]

Anyone know where I can download the manual for it?

 

[Scholar]

check the help menu

 

[nonie]

Another thing about Sonar 4 Producer. Whenever I play an audio file from FL, there's always a lot of popping nosies even though I lower the volume and I tried messin with the buffer but sometimes it still pops, but whenever I listen to MIDI data I've played in the program, stuffs crystal clear. Does it have something to with my monitors, soundcard, program?

 

[Scholar]

well when dealing with PC's you have to take in account the things that running in the background. That popping could be a nuber of things: something trying to access the CPU while your music is playing,Latency may be too Low on the PCI Bus, or just a IRQ conflict,and sense all systems are like "Finger Prints" no 2 are alike it could be a number of things.

 

[StressWon]

Another thing about Sonar 4 Producer. Whenever I play an audio file from FL, there's always a lot of popping nosies even though I lower the volume and I tried messin with the buffer but sometimes it still pops, but whenever I listen to MIDI data I've played in the program, stuffs crystal clear. Does it have something to with my monitors, soundcard, program?

i get that too, goin4broke is right. Too much shit in the background is gonna effect it. What i found is that if you disable your internet connection and anything else runnin, it will work more effeciently(spelling?) So, try that bro.

 

[nonie]

Alright man thanks I'll try doin that, but someone else at another site told me it has to do with my memory. I got 256 MB of RAM and he told me I needed at least 1 GB of RAM to fix the problem I'm havin with playing the audio. Would that be better than just disconnecting programs that I'm not using at the moment to help the flow of Sonar smoothen out?

 

[Scholar]

ah now things make mad sense now! if you are running windows xp it uses atleast 256 by its self! yes the ram will help alot even just using 512mb of ram will help alot,but you still need to get rid of IRQ conflicts,and shit that will gobble up CPU cycles...ie(all those nasty lil background services).

 

[nonie]

Alright so let me get this straight, I'm gonna need more RAM to work with and also disconnect those other programs I'm not using while in Sonar? And for the RAM, where could I get more and how much would it cost?

 

[StressWon]

Alright so let me get this straight, I'm gonna need more RAM to work with and also disconnect those other programs I'm not using while in Sonar? And for the RAM, where could I get more and how much would it cost?

depends on ya budget homie,,,as far as memory is concerned, I use 512 and I'm good man. Just cop like 256 off ebay. 512 is cool.

 

[x-squizet]

best buy got good deals to, their geek squad is rebuilding my comp for like 250 dollars, thats with 512mb of memory and a 80gb hard drive and shit

 

[nonie]

depends on ya budget homie,,,as far as memory is concerned, I use 512 and I'm good man. Just cop like 256 off ebay. 512 is cool.

Haha I'm a young kid and my parents don't let me buy stuff off Ebay so how much would it cost in stores? Budget is about 150-200, if I need that much for it.

 

[nonie]

Did some research on this and I found that my Dell Dimension 8250 can't have any memory upgrades according to www.crucial.com so what am I supposed to do now? Anybody got something on this?

Btw, can a mod move this to the Hardware section since I found out what the problem is.

 

[nonie]

Hmm..even though crucial said that my Dell had no memory upgrades, I found some.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A0242108&cs=19&c=us&l=en

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A0285786&cs=19&c=us&l=en

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A0242105&cs=19&c=us&l=en

Are these good and how do I know if my computer is a 400 MHz FSB or a 533 MHz FSB? Any help would be appriciated.