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don't skimp on RAM — it's really cheap and it can help perfor-

mance quite a bit. Windows swaps applications to and from your

hard disk disk when it runs out of RAM and this can wreak havoc

on your digital audio recording. Have at least 32MB.

before recording, shut-down any applications that aren't neces-

sary to the recording. You can never tell if an application is really

idle; it could be doing something stupid in the background that

sucks up some of the PC's processing power.

turn off unnecessary background tasks like screen savers, virus

scanners and power management

clean up your hard drive: delete all of those little files in your

web browser's cache directory. They take up more space then

you might think and also cause drive fragmentation.

If you can afford it, a wise incremental investment to your PC

would be to purchase a good-sized hard drive (2-6 GB drives are

a real bargain these days) and dedicate it to digital audio. This

can improve performance and reduce fragmentation and clutter.

finally, immediately before you start recording, do the obvious

and run your hard disk defragmenter utility. Along with proces-

sor speed, Hard drive performance is the most important factor

in determining how many tracks you can record and whether or

not you'll get any dropouts in your audio.

Advanced Configuration:

Wave/4 Control Panel Applet

We've included a small control panel applet to help you fine tune the

Wave/4 Sound Cache™ hardware to your system. There is also a special

SyncStart feature.

To start the Wave/4 applet, select 'Start | Settings | Control Panel'

and double click on the 'Wave/4 Applet' icon.

Tuning:

This setting manages the amount of PC processing that is used to

maintain the audio data flow to the Wave/4 card. Usually, this setting does

not need to be changed from its default. The lower the setting, the lower

the possibility that you will experience any audio dropouts when recording or

playing. However, the low and medium settings consume more of your PC's

overall performance and leave less processing power available for other appli-

cation functions. You may also be able to increase the number of audio

tracks that your PC can plan by tweaking the Tuning setting.