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Re: maxi studio Isis soundcard Click Here to Report this message to the Moderator Posted by skipkent (via moderator) (from: 203.219.45.190) on July 12, 2004 at 23:03:19: In Reply to: Re: maxi studio Isis soundcard posted by katrin on December 10, 2003 at 03:45:00: Katrin, I'm currently running the card on my wife's old PII 333, which I just 'upgraded' to 128MB ram by snarfing a chip from another old box. The card should perform fine with Cool Edit, which should have come with the card. Logic Audio Isis is MUCH more finicky and difficult to use, but interesting once you jump a few hurdles. To get your machine to work with Logic, make sure you do the following: 1. Run add/remove programs and see if there's a 'yamaha soft synth' installed. If it's there, UNINSTALL it. It's a memory hog and Logic won't even get off the ground if it's there. 2. Right-click on My Computer on your desktop and then click Properties. Somewhere there's a setting for graphics/hardware accelleration. Slide that down to 'basic acceleration'. 3. Go into Control Panel and double-click on Multimedia. Click on the Audio tab and then click the Advanced button for sound playback. Click on the Performance tab and move the hardware acceleration slider down to 'basic acceleration'. Doing these things should help you free up what memory you have. Also ask around at work or wherever to see if any friends have memory from old pc's. There's tons of it floating around if you can find it! Lastly, on the software end, try Magix 'Audio Studio' program. www.magix.com, I believe. It's got a midi program that's based on Logic and a whopping-great audio program that's based on Samplitude, and it works fine with the Isis, so long as you're running win95, 98, or ME. All for about 70-$80 American. Try Amazon.com and you might get it even cheaper. That package is the best-kept secret in recording if you ask me! Have fun, and if all else fails stick with Cool Edit. That program has VERY low over-head, memory and processor wise, and you have a great recording system right there if you can get over the absense of midi and real-time effects. If you get a new system later on, you can still keep that old machine with the Isis for those rare occasions when you really need the 8 tracks, then you Follow Ups: Post a Followup Name: E-Mail: Subject: Comments: : Katrin, : I'm currently running the card on my wife's old PII 333, which I just 'upgraded' to 128MB ram by snarfing a chip from another old box. : The card should perform fine with Cool Edit, which should have come with the card. : Logic Audio Isis is MUCH more finicky and difficult to use, but interesting once you jump a few hurdles. To get your machine to work with Logic, make sure you do the following: : 1. Run add/remove programs and see if there's a 'yamaha soft synth' installed. If it's there, UNINSTALL it. It's a memory hog and Logic won't even get off the ground if it's there. : 2. Right-click on My Computer on your desktop and then click Properties. Somewhere there's a setting for graphics/hardware accelleration. Slide that down to 'basic acceleration'. : 3. Go into Control Panel and double-click on Multimedia. Click on the Audio tab and then click the Advanced button for sound playback. Click on the Performance tab and move the hardware acceleration slider down to 'basic acceleration'. : Doing these things should help you free up what memory you have. Also ask around at work or wherever to see if any friends have memory from old pc's. There's tons of it floating around if you can find it! : Lastly, on the software end, try Magix 'Audio Studio' program. www.magix.com, I believe. It's got a midi program that's based on Logic and a whopping-great audio program that's based on Samplitude, and it works fine with the Isis, so long as you're running win95, 98, or ME. All for about 70-$80 American. Try Amazon.com and you might get it even cheaper. That package is the best-kept secret in recording if you ask me! : Have fun, and if all else fails stick with Cool Edit. That program has VERY low over-head, memory and processor wise, and you have a great recording system right there if you can get over the absense of midi and real-time effects. If you get a new system later on, you can still keep that old machine with the Isis for those rare occasions when you really need the 8 tracks, then you Click here to be notified by email when someone replies to your message [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Music Software Discussion & Help Page ] [ FAQ ]

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