Recording with Sound Forge

[LOL_DUDE_]

HI all, I use sound forge to record from my 'line in' on my sound card and although it does a good job it uses almost 100% CPU whilst it is recording. I have the latest driver for my sound card which is a 'Yamaha 724' (yep just an old crappy 2 channel card). Is this normal or is there something wrong?
thanx

[dap OLD werewolf]

HI all, I use sound forge to record from my 'line in' on my sound card and although it does a good job it uses almost 100% CPU whilst it is recording. I have the latest driver for my sound card which is a 'Yamaha 724' (yep just an old crappy 2 channel card). Is this normal or is there something wrong?
thanx

Well Sound Forge (I looked it up) can do a number of things... I never really noticed a big increase in resources when recording, i guess it would depend on whether you're compressing it a lot (like are you recording to mp3). What you didn't mention is what your cpu is...

[Beeza]

... or ram. Sound Forge uses a lot of both.

[LOL_DUDE_]

Thanx for for replys, im using a pentium 3 with 384mhz r.a.m. and i'm recording at 44.1k/16bit .WAV so there is no compression. I tried another sound card and it does the same thing (up to 99% CPU). I'm also using sound forge 6 coz sound forge 7 has a jerking effect when audio scrolls across the screen. I find it weird coz audio playback uses not even 1% CPU. thanx in advanced for any further help.

[dap OLD werewolf]

Thanx for for replys, im using a pentium 3 with 384mhz r.a.m. and i'm recording at 44.1k/16bit .WAV so there is no compression.

Well you answered what ram you have but you didn't answer what your cpu is... A Pentium 3 can be 600 Mhz or 2 Ghz. And obviously Beeza has used Source Forge and knows if she says it is a resource hog.

[Guest]

i've been using Sound Forge for 4 years now...from version 4.5 on my win95 Pentium 90 to now (v5 on P4). I must admit i dont do anything else whilst recording though as it's a pro audio tool and I never multitask them. But even on the P90 it made flawless recordings.

Myth

[LOL_DUDE_]

Thanx for your help guys once again but I guess it is sound forge to blame coz I used the recording tool that comes with windows and it only used 3% cpu so I guess there's nothing I can do. The comment about not doing anything else while it's recording is proberbly the best thing to do.

[Czar]

I've used SoundForge since version 4.5 (on Win95) and it is a resource hogger. I've always found it best to do nothing else whilst recording with it. But then, that is more to do with not wanting the chance of any errors. Not a problem for ripping, but definitely when you're recording 100's of records that have to be done in real time. (Looking back, I can't believe I did so much recording and cleaning up/editing/mixing with 4.5 on Win95 233mhz processor! Hm, love those 1/10th second cuts.)

Now sadly, my copy of SoundForge 6 won't install - it's the only version I have a reliable crack for. And I dont' trust getting cracks from my usual source or Winmx anymore, they be virus infected!

[dap OLD werewolf]

Now sadly, my copy of SoundForge 6 won't install - it's the only version I have a reliable crack for. And I dont' trust getting cracks from my usual source or Winmx anymore, they be virus infected!

Most cracks on winmx ARE unreliable, I've found. I have also found that most cracks on crack sites are reliable, like on cracks.am - but you have to be willing to suffer the popups...lol

[LOL_DUDE_]

Popups? what popups? don't get them anymore thanks to Crazy Browser... Also them files "0006.cab" and "bridge.cab" are evil sneaky files lol...watch out for them!

[Czar]

No, I don't have popups either - was using Kill Popup till I switched my browser to Mozilla.

Got the SoundForge problem fixed too, managed to get a fresh coply of the 6 installer from the new owners of SF - SONY! (Even though 7 is out, I don't have a crack for it, and it's unstable anyway.)