Suggestions for cubase box
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:19 pm
Hello,
I've realized that it's time to upgrade my recording hardware. I was hoping for some general suggestions.
I mostly record ensembles, recording 12-16 tracks simultaneously. My front end is miscellaneous outboard pres, daisy chained through an Apogee Rosetta 800 into a RME UFX, and then into the computer via USB 3 (everything clocks off an external Antelope clock).
My intention is to migrate from running Logic on a mac to start using Cubase as my DAW. Part of the reason for the upgrade is to switch DAWs.
But the main reason for the upgrade is that I'm trying to fix a problem with blips that seem to be related to the computer IO and/or drive. These blips tend to occur in all tracks at the same time, and occur more frequently the longer things have been running.
After first experiencing them, That was after adjusting things within Logic, like the buffer size, which did not seem to help the issue. What did help was when I switched to recording to an external drive rather than the system drive. However, when I started to record more simultaneous tracks and use a higher sample rate, the blips have come back.
Does this type of problem sound familiar to anyone, and what type of issue could it be? Putting it another way, what would the minimum requirements be for a system to handle recording 16 tracks at 48kHz? I am currently running on a mac mini with quad core and 16GB of ram. My external drive is a Glyph drive connected via FW800.
Second question: does anyone have any experience with whether Cubase performs better on a mac of PC? I would assume that it shouldn't matter much, and that I could get more bang for my buck with a PC than a mac. Are these good assumptions?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
David Elaine Alt
composer@davidelainealt.com
I've realized that it's time to upgrade my recording hardware. I was hoping for some general suggestions.
I mostly record ensembles, recording 12-16 tracks simultaneously. My front end is miscellaneous outboard pres, daisy chained through an Apogee Rosetta 800 into a RME UFX, and then into the computer via USB 3 (everything clocks off an external Antelope clock).
My intention is to migrate from running Logic on a mac to start using Cubase as my DAW. Part of the reason for the upgrade is to switch DAWs.
But the main reason for the upgrade is that I'm trying to fix a problem with blips that seem to be related to the computer IO and/or drive. These blips tend to occur in all tracks at the same time, and occur more frequently the longer things have been running.
After first experiencing them, That was after adjusting things within Logic, like the buffer size, which did not seem to help the issue. What did help was when I switched to recording to an external drive rather than the system drive. However, when I started to record more simultaneous tracks and use a higher sample rate, the blips have come back.
Does this type of problem sound familiar to anyone, and what type of issue could it be? Putting it another way, what would the minimum requirements be for a system to handle recording 16 tracks at 48kHz? I am currently running on a mac mini with quad core and 16GB of ram. My external drive is a Glyph drive connected via FW800.
Second question: does anyone have any experience with whether Cubase performs better on a mac of PC? I would assume that it shouldn't matter much, and that I could get more bang for my buck with a PC than a mac. Are these good assumptions?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
David Elaine Alt
composer@davidelainealt.com