Speed Up Your Music Production Part 1
If your interested in speeding up your sequencer and have the hard drive space available, I highly recommend making a dual boot system. In doing so you will be able to optimise your hard drive to perform at it’s best while tweaking your latest CPU intensive tune.
I am a Windows XP user and have been running the same install for about 3 years now. Over the years my operating system has managed to become a clutter of games, programs, music sequencers, samples, and just general crap! Over the weekend I came up with an idea that if I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP, I wouldn’t need to go out and buy a complete new system. (Three years of installing programs generally results in a slower operating system due to unnecesary background programs eg. virus’s, monitoring programs ect. ect.).
The problem with installing a fresh copy of Windows XP is that I would have to go through and install every little program all over again and that would take days. But on the other hand my fresh install of Windows XP would mean that I would reap the benefits from my FL Studio projects and other audio software running at full throttle. I was weighing up the two options when the light bulb suddenly clicked!!!
The absolute No.1 tip I can give you is to set up a dual boot system. This may sound insane and stupid but it’s exactly what I did over the weekend and the results are amazing. That’s right I now have a dual boot system of Windows XP and wait for it… Windows XP!
My first Windows XP install is 3 years old and cluttered up with programs and my second Windows XP is three days old and runs like a wildfire on a windy day heading up a hill. (The fresh install runs lightning fast!) You too can reap the benefits by installing another fresh copy of Windows XP.
If you would like a step by step guide as to how to go about dual booting your PC, you will have to wait untill tommorrow as I haven’t finished writing it yet. If your hanging out for the next part to this guide, just sign up to the The Fruit Tree RSS feed and get the post delivered straight to your RSS reader as soon I post it up! (If you don’t have an RSS reader you can get one here.)
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