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don't skimp on RAM — it's really cheap and it can help perfor-
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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-
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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
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scanners and power management
clean up your hard drive: delete all of those little files in your
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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
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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
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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.
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