Sound processing

[Seamless Sounds]

I'm a music sequencer and I love using FL Studio (DAW). However whenever the polyphony runs high while using dsp effects, my dual core cpu overloads thus causes skipping in my music. I'm using a laptop btw. My onboard soundcard sucks.

Is there any way to take this workload off the cpu? I've read a soundcard will help, but what about an external soundcard? Which is better external (usb) or internal (expresscard) for relieving the stress on the main cpu?

 

[obobskivich]

you should really be using a desktop, especially for professional use, because it gives you access to more appropriate acceleration hardware


I'm thinking the expresscard/firewire E-MU interfaces *should* help, MOTU and PreSonus are also considerations (expensive), don't remember what the H/W acceleration is like on the M-Audio hardware of today

ultimately though, the best suggestion is a desktop, as you can not only have internal DSP acceleration cards (UAD, E-MU, Digidesign, Appogee, Lynx, RME, ESI, etc), you can also have more powerful processors (think Xeon 5400 series)

 

[Nocturnal310]

Just because its dual core doesnt make it good enough..all laptops have dual core these days.

i use FL on my laptop and open task manager and set the process priority to 'High' ...this reduces any laggy issues.

its highly recommended if u r running one big app on a computer.

try doing this and let us know.