Posted August 22, 200420 yr I've been doing alot of recording with SONAR 3 and wanted to do beable to do more than 15 MIDI tracks at once along with various audio intruments (Guitars) without getting any dropouts. So I checked around and found these Tweaking tips to be useful for better performance. There's alot of good links on that thread. BTW...if you are into SoftSynths, check out Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Trilogy, Stylus , Symphony of Voices etc. That shit kicks ass. http://www.cakewalk.com/forum/tm.asp?m=128516 1. Processor scheduling should be set to background services and not Programs Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced Tab > Background Services 2. Visual effects should be set to a minimum. Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Visual Effects Tab > Adjust for best performance 3. Switch Off Desktop Background Image Right Click Desktop > Properties > Desktop Tab > Background None 4. Disable Screen Saver Right Click Desktop > Properties > Screen Saver > None 5. Disable Fast User Switching Start > Settings > Control Panel > User Accounts > Change the way users log on or off > Untick Use Fast User Switching 6. Switch Off Power Schemes Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Always On > Turn off monitor and turn off hard discs to Never 7. Switch Off Hibernation Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate > Untick Hibernation 8. Activate DMA on Hard Discs/CD ROMS Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers > Right Click Primary IDE channel and Secondary IDE channel > Properties > Advanced Settings Tab > Transfer Mode to "DMA if available" for both devices 9. Disable System Sounds Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds Tab > Sound Scheme to None 10. Do Not Map Through Soundcard Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Hardware Tab > (highlight your soundcard from the list) > Properties > Audio Devices > (highlight your soundcard from the list) > Properties, and check the "Do not map through this device" checkbox. 11. Disable System Restore Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > System Restore Tab. Tick the "Turn off System Restore on all Drives" 12. Disable Automatic Updates Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Automatic Updates > Turn off automatic updating. I want to update my computer manually 13. Startup and Recovery Options Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Untick Automatically Restart 14. Disable Error Reporting Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Advanced > Error Reporting > Disable Error Reporting 15. Disable Remote Assistance Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > Remote > Untick Allow remote assistance invitations to be sent from this computer 16. Fix Swap File (Virtual Memory Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced > Virtual Memory Change > Custom Size. Set initial and maximum size to the same value. 17. Speed Up Menus Start > Run > Regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Control Panel > Desktop Folder. Set MenuShowDelay to 1 18. Disable Offline Files Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > Offline Files Untick "Enable Offline Files" 19. Disable Remote Desktop Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Remote > Untick "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" 20. Disable Internet Synchronise Time Start > Settings > Control Panel > Date and Time > Internet Time > Untick "Automatically synchronize with internet time server" 21. Disable Hide Inactive Icons Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu > Taskbar TAB > Uncheck "Hide Inactive Icons" 22. Disable Automatic Desktop Cleanup Wizard Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Desktop > Customise Desktop > Untick "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days" 23. Disable NTFS Last Access Time Logging (NTFS File Systems Only) Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > Filesystem. Add a new DWORD value - "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate" and set value to 1. 24. Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced. Create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips and set to 0. 25. Disable CDROM Autoplay Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Services > Cdrom. Set autorun to 0. 26. Disable Disc Indexing Service Right Click Start > Explorer > Right Click Each Disc > Properties > Untick "Allow Indexing Service to index this disc for fast file searching"
August 22, 200420 yr hmm yea you'd actually experience a 0.1% increase in speed if you have less than 256 megs o' RAM. If you're doing sound editing then you're better off with at least a gig of ram and multiple partitioned hard drive. Those tweaks are just a waste of time.
August 22, 200420 yr Author Techno_Warrior']hmm yea you'd actually experience a 0.1% increase in speed if you have less than 256 megs o' RAM. If you're doing sound editing then you're better off with at least a gig of ram and multiple partitioned hard drive. Those tweaks are just a waste of time. I have 1.7 gig cpu and 1.5 gigs of RAM. I was running two synths from MHC Voxynth and SpaceSynth. Both of these together ran my CPU up over 70% and sometimes it crashed Sonar. Well..I did some of those tweaks and then ran both synths again and it brought down the CPU usage from 70% to 45%-50%.....that's still shit performance. I can use Atmosphere on 15 tracks and it only takes up 60% CPU and never drops out or crashes. MHC is just a CPU hog from Hell...Though the sounds were great I uninstalled it.
