Amplitube - Core2duo

[auggybendoggy2]

After trying it out, I was pleasantly surprised that my Dell XT2 (core2duo) can handle Amplitube.
Anyone seeking an affordable laptop might consider a used XT2 or XT3.

My only suggestion would be to use Windows 8. My XT2 touch doesn't work in W10. I believe it's the drivers.

Amplitube sounds so good and being able to use it on older touch laptops makes it even better.

[Peter_IK]

Nice suggestion! I also might add that I have had much better luck with Windows 7 than Windows 8 for general audio recording use (as I've seen similarly stated by others) and there is still over a year of extended support for Windows 7 so assume you may need to upgrade in just over a year from now if you use Windows 7 which in my experience is rock solid.

I do not have a lot of issues on Windows 10 either, to be honest, when using my Surface Pro 4 but that is not dedicated to audio recording tasks. Due to the latter part of that statement, it would also be unfair to give either a 100% thumbs up or 100% thumbs down to Windows 10 for audio recording as I don't have a fully-dedicated machine for audio recording using Windows 10 at the moment. Probably will in... just over a year when I upgrade my studio computer.

Hope this also helps.

[auggybendoggy2]

W8 seems to be working nicely. No problems thus far. The XT2 is a dual boot so ill I stall amp4 there as well and see what's the difference. The touch features if 8 are far better than 7 but who knows maybe 7 will work too.

[Peter_IK]

W8 seems to be working nicely. No problems thus far. The XT2 is a dual boot so ill I stall amp4 there as well and see what's the difference. The touch features if 8 are far better than 7 but who knows maybe 7 will work too.

Good point about touch features. Those are indeed quite nice in the Surface with Win 10 so I might consider a touchscreen for my future Win 10 update on the main studio machine

[wliska]

Which brand / model audio interface are you using?

[auggybendoggy2]

I'm using the irig 2 HD interface. No pops, clips. CPU goes to about 35-40% but that is no fx added.

[wliska]

How is the latency? How low can you set the buffer?

[auggybendoggy2]

Wilska,

For me it runs fine. With A4 buffer set to 512, and setting AISO4ALL to the same, I can't even tell there's latency. If it is I'm guessing it's from 2-6 ms.

I can't tell the difference at 128 or 64 set on the buffere except I do see some CPU increase.

I added in 3 stomps: Chorus, Delay and Compressor and the CPU hardly moved up at all.

Anyone interested, I think the i5 cpu's are more suitable, but from my own experience the Core2duo is able to manage A4 just fine.

IMO IK has done a fantastic job because i read that A3 was a bit CPU heavy. But if this old XT2 can handle it, then that tells me they did their job well.

Thank you IK for A4! Well done.

[Peter_IK]

Thanks for the kind words about IK. I use three Steinberg MR816 interfaces daisy chained in my main studio computer. I can track at either 32 of 64 buffer size typically. This setup gives me 24 analog inputs and outputs.

[auggybendoggy2]

Wow Peter, those MR816 are nice units. What is that, like 48 ins/outs?

Also Peter, do you notice latency delay with your MR's? with the Irig 2HD I don't feel any latency even at 512 buffer. I can run my Core2duo at 64 and I don't get any noise at all.

I'm assuming then that the Irig is doing a fine job with its ad/da conversion, which is why my CPU seems to be doing very little. Again, when I added FX to A4, my cpu went up like 3-5%, that is all.

[Peter_IK]

It is 24 analog ins/outs. I don't notice latency at all with these units either.