Hey all, just wanted to introduce myself and give you my little \"uad1\" story.... and of course ask a question or two =).
I've actually gotten my first UAD card back in 05. I asked a buddy of mine about which plugins to buy... and he said UAD hands down. SO I research and buy the Project Pak. Ok, buy it, install it.. and basically never use it (or very little). I did ask him... since it supports more than 1 card per system... when should I get another card... He told me \"When you need another card.. you WILL KNOW!\" Ok, anyways... due to work, home, etc.. I never really got rolling with my music/DAW for a while. Fast forward to 2007....
UA releases the DVD... so I buy it.. since it looked like a useful bit. I had always thought my studio chops (mixing, etc) was always way behind my gtr chops... so I figured it to be useful. Well, I learned SO MUCH from that vid.. and some other info from the BFD mixing guide (I have BFD too).. on getting a good drum sound.... I began looking at more plugs!!!
Well, I created a dummy song/project just to apply some of my new knowledge from the BFD guide and the UA DVD... and guess what.... I needed another card... and this project had like 8 tracks or something only... well, since then I have bought SEVERAL plugins, and 2 more cards (including Flexi pak and a used Project pak from the friend mentioned above.. he's going PCI-e).
Well, I'm totally loving UA and defintely have been stocking up on plugs.. and I've only just begun my love affair with the Neve stuff =). But a recent project I was working on began giving me fits and kept crashing my pc with Cubase SX. I was running a slew of plugins (all UA) and maxing (or maybe 70%+ at least) my UAD's and the whole PC would lock up. I blamed it on Cubase mainly (with UAD though).. and began a hunt for a new DAW. I'm leaning towards Sonar with the new version 7 coming up.. though I'm also looking at Reaper... anyways here's my questions:
* are there \"workarounds\" for Sonar similar to the Cubase workarounds with the CPU load balancing by re-ordering the tracks to make the more cpu intense plugs load first. I haven't seen anything anywhere so I didn't know if one existed or not for Sonar
* on the UAD meter... I understand the cpu gauge, but what is the mem... mine usually is very low.. even when the cpu gauge is very high.
* UA dropped support with 4.7 for Win2000... is Windows Server 2003 still supported.. or just XP and Vista currently?
Thanks a million, now I just need to sit and wait for the next promo to spend my remaining UA funds =)
Peace
I've actually gotten my first UAD card back in 05. I asked a buddy of mine about which plugins to buy... and he said UAD hands down. SO I research and buy the Project Pak. Ok, buy it, install it.. and basically never use it (or very little). I did ask him... since it supports more than 1 card per system... when should I get another card... He told me \"When you need another card.. you WILL KNOW!\" Ok, anyways... due to work, home, etc.. I never really got rolling with my music/DAW for a while. Fast forward to 2007....
UA releases the DVD... so I buy it.. since it looked like a useful bit. I had always thought my studio chops (mixing, etc) was always way behind my gtr chops... so I figured it to be useful. Well, I learned SO MUCH from that vid.. and some other info from the BFD mixing guide (I have BFD too).. on getting a good drum sound.... I began looking at more plugs!!!
Well, I created a dummy song/project just to apply some of my new knowledge from the BFD guide and the UA DVD... and guess what.... I needed another card... and this project had like 8 tracks or something only... well, since then I have bought SEVERAL plugins, and 2 more cards (including Flexi pak and a used Project pak from the friend mentioned above.. he's going PCI-e).
Well, I'm totally loving UA and defintely have been stocking up on plugs.. and I've only just begun my love affair with the Neve stuff =). But a recent project I was working on began giving me fits and kept crashing my pc with Cubase SX. I was running a slew of plugins (all UA) and maxing (or maybe 70%+ at least) my UAD's and the whole PC would lock up. I blamed it on Cubase mainly (with UAD though).. and began a hunt for a new DAW. I'm leaning towards Sonar with the new version 7 coming up.. though I'm also looking at Reaper... anyways here's my questions:
* are there \"workarounds\" for Sonar similar to the Cubase workarounds with the CPU load balancing by re-ordering the tracks to make the more cpu intense plugs load first. I haven't seen anything anywhere so I didn't know if one existed or not for Sonar
* on the UAD meter... I understand the cpu gauge, but what is the mem... mine usually is very low.. even when the cpu gauge is very high.
* UA dropped support with 4.7 for Win2000... is Windows Server 2003 still supported.. or just XP and Vista currently?
Thanks a million, now I just need to sit and wait for the next promo to spend my remaining UA funds =)
Peace
