Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone can help.
I'm using my FW21M laptop for music production and having a few issues which are making me think i either need a Mac or a Windows Laptop more suited music production.
The problem is I want to use it 'live' to play VST instruments through my DAW but every so often the laptop freezes/crashes which obviously I can not have in a live environment (it's ok for a home studio because I can just reboot the system and carry on although far from ideal). I don't know why this is happening. I have heard of something called DPC latency and DPC spikes but have no idea if this is related or how good / bad my sony is in relation to this. I use Reaper as my DAW which is not processor hungry, a number of VSTi's and have an external Novation NIO 2/4 audio interface and an E-MU Xboard 61 midi keyboard / controller.
Any ideas?
I totally understand that the laptop isn't designed to be used in professional music production but i thought the specs would be ok. Ideally i want to sort the problem out because I really love the laptop even though it's a few years old.
To make it more suitable to music making, I upgraded the OS to Windows 7 64bit and also upgraded the hard drive to a faster 7800rpm device with more memory. I doubt the OS or hard drive will have any impact on the laptop freezing or crashing though....
Many thanks
Tim
