1303
Improving performance with digital audio
Improving audio performance
Apply some audio effects offline
If you are happy with your real-time effects, consider using the
Process > Apply Effect > Audio Effects
command to apply those
effects offline. Then remove those effects from real-time use and free up
lots of CPU power.
Archive unused audio tracks
Audio tracks that are muted continue to place a load on your processor.
To lessen the burden and free up cycles to handle more audio, archive
all unused audio tracks. See
“To archive or unarchive tracks”
203 for more information.
Mix down or freeze your audio/synth
tracks
If your project contains many different audio/synth tracks or many real-
time effects, you can use the Track view
Tracks > Bounce to Track(s)
command or click a track’s
Freeze Track
button
to reduce all of this
content to an audio track or tracks with no active effects.
Change
I/O Buffer Size
on the
Advanced
tab of the
Audio
Option
s dialog box
The default setting is 64 KB. Yours may work better with 128, 32, or 16.
If those values don’t help, try 256, 512, or move on to another remedy.
Defragment your hard disk
If your hard disk is fragmented, playback of audio will be slower. Use the
Disk Defragmenter to correct the situation.
Turn off dithering in the
Edit >
Preferences > Audio - Playback
and Recording
dialog box (choose
None
in the
Dithering
field).
Dithering subtly improves your mix, but most people can’t hear it. Turn it
back on for mastering.
Enable read and write caching
By default, SONAR bypasses all disk caching, which typically results in
better performance with audio data. If your computer has an older IDE
disk controller, or a disk controller that does not use DMA transfers,
enabling caching may improve SONAR's audio performance.
Note
: Changes to these settings only take effect when you restart
SONAR.
Go to
Edit > Preferences > Audio - Sync and Caching
to
change the
Enable Read Caching
and
Enable Write Caching
settings.
Disable the Display Clip Contents
options
Drawing the contents of audio clips in the Clips pane uses some CPU
cycles. If you are using a slow machine, you may want to disable this
feature. To do so, click the Track view
View
menu, point to
Display
and
choose
Display Clip Contents
.
Approach
How it works
Table 227.
Содержание sonar x3
Страница 1: ...SONAR X3 Reference Guide...
Страница 4: ...4 Getting started...
Страница 112: ...112 Tutorial 1 Creating playing and saving projects Saving project files...
Страница 124: ...124 Tutorial 3 Recording vocals and musical instruments...
Страница 132: ...132 Tutorial 4 Playing and recording software instruments...
Страница 142: ...142 Tutorial 5 Working with music notation...
Страница 150: ...150 Tutorial 6 Editing your music...
Страница 160: ...160 Tutorial 7 Mixing and adding effects...
Страница 170: ...170 Tutorial 8 Working with video Exporting your video...
Страница 570: ...570 Control Bar overview...
Страница 696: ...696 AudioSnap Producer and Studio only Algorithms and rendering...
Страница 720: ...720 Working with loops and Groove Clips Importing Project5 patterns...
Страница 820: ...820 Drum maps and the Drum Grid pane The Drum Grid pane...
Страница 848: ...848 Editing audio Audio effects audio plug ins...
Страница 878: ...878 Software instruments Stand alone synths...
Страница 1042: ...1042 ProChannel Producer and Studio only...
Страница 1088: ...1088 Sharing your songs on SoundCloud Troubleshooting...
Страница 1140: ...1140 Automation Recording automation data from an external controller...
Страница 1178: ...1178 Multi touch...
Страница 1228: ...1228 Notation and lyrics Working with lyrics...
Страница 1282: ...1282 Synchronizing your gear MIDI Machine Control MMC...
Страница 1358: ...1358 External devices Working with StudioWare...
Страница 1362: ...1362 Using CAL Sample CAL files...
Страница 1386: ...1386 Troubleshooting Known issues...
Страница 1394: ...1394 Hardware setup Set up to record digital audio...
Страница 1400: ...1400 MIDI files...
Страница 1422: ...1422 Initialization files Initialization file format...
Страница 1463: ...1463 Misc enhancements New features in SONAR X3...
Страница 1470: ...1470 Comparison...
Страница 1518: ...1518 Included plug ins Instruments...
Страница 1532: ...1532 Cyclone Using Cyclone...
Страница 1694: ...1694 Beginner s guide to Cakewalk software Audio hardware sound cards and drivers...
Страница 1854: ...1854 Preferences dialog Customization Nudge Figure 518 The Nudge section...
Страница 1856: ...1856 Preferences dialog Customization Snap to Grid Figure 519 The Snap to Grid section...
Страница 1920: ...1920 Snap Scale Settings dialog...
Страница 2042: ...2042 View reference Surround panner...