Do you need to tweak Win 10/11 for music production?

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  1. reverbmuddiesmix

    reverbmuddiesmix Member

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    back in the days Win XP needed a full set of tweaks (eg. setting performance focus to background processes, disabling graphic FXs such as shadows when dragging and dropping etc.) to make it perform well for music production, so i am wondering if that is the case for Win 10/11 too and if yes if someone could paste a link to a tutorial/site where all needed/recommanded tweaks are listed?
    i am not talking making a slim version of the Win 10/11 OS by getting rid off bloatware etc. but i am talking tweaks only that might enhance Win 10/11 for music production (eg. to get better latencies or making the DAW (cubase 12 in my case) perform better).
     
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    Don't let audio glitches ruin your performances!
    www.cantabilesoftware.com/glitchfree/

    LatencyMon 7.00
    The LatencyMon software analyzes and identifies which device, which driver or which service is causing audio dropouts or malfunctions.
    Real-time audio suitability checker for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/2016/2012/2008 (x86 and x64)
    Scroll Down to: System Monitoring Tools www.resplendence.com/downloads

    Native Instruments - Windows Tuning Tips for Audio Processing
    https://support.native-instruments....1729-Windows-Tuning-Tips-for-Audio-Processing

    PreSonus - Optimizing Your Computer for Audio - Windows 10
    https://support.presonus.com/hc/en-...Optimizing-Your-Computer-for-Audio-Windows-10

    Ableton - Optimizing Windows for Audio
    https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209071469-Optimizing-Windows-for-Audio

    FL Studio - Optimizing FL Studio performance
    www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/app_opt.htm

    Windows: How to set-up and optimize a Digital Audio Workstation
    https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/...t-up-and-optimize-a-Digital-Audio-Workstation

    Steinberg - Windows für die Arbeit mit DAWs optimieren
    https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/...d-Optimierung-einer-Digital-Audio-Workstation

    Focusrite - Windows für die Arbeit mit DAWs optimieren
    https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207355205-Optimising-your-PC-for-Audio-on-Windows-10
     
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  5. reverbmuddiesmix

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    thx a lot! very good resources there! if u have more pls keep em coming
     
  6. quadcore64

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    Windows will always need some type of tweaking as long as the Bill Gates, mind set exists, Bloatware in Windows10/11 are most likely using resources in some way (update/telemetry, etc...).

    Starting points:
    BIOS settings
    Proper hardware connections (ports/slots/cables)

    From Steinberg - Windows: How to setup and optimize a Digital Audio Workstation
    https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/...t-up-and-optimize-a-Digital-Audio-Workstation
     
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    Use FULL Windows 10 Latency Reduction Pack https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1csdZP0122SxC9g94ARAXoBza6PKN8Gze
    Use Fidelizer 8.8 https://www.fidelizer-audio.com/download-fidelizer/
    Use PS2 mouse instead of USB mouse
    Remove all unnecessary USB devices
    Disable optical drive driver
    Turn off Ethernet card
    Turn off all unnecessary background processes
    Exclude all unnecessary startup programs
    Turn off antivirus
    Use MinorityClean (from BugHead Emperor package) /improves sound reproduction quality/
    Set audio programs priority to 'realtime' (if it works for you), or 'high'
    Use QuickCPU for power and core management https://coderbag.com/product/quickcpu
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    For audio players use also 5ms buffer, turn off 'replay gain', turn off any DSP (including dithering and oversampling), turn off visualizations, seekbar and timer (where available).
    If you are listening to a playlist, minimize the player to tray (improves the sound by releasing the CPU from communicating with GPU).
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    For improving the sound when listening to your audio collection, rewrite your files first (and exclude them from defragmentation - use UltimateDefrag) with Rewrite Data 3.78 (from BugHead Emperor package).
     
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    yes you need to do that. I had 10% CPU(Ryzen 7 5700G) usage for internet services on windows 10, despite i dont even use internet on the desktop.

    Have yet to deactivate all useless services.
     
  10. VroundS

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    No, because nobody actually proved that so called "optimizations" make any difference.
     
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    What does all those services do? Here: https://www.blackviper.com/ :wink:
     
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    Not really, there's not too much to tweak.

    That said, running O&O shutup and then using Autoruns from Sysinternals (now part of Microsoft) to get rid of excess services on startup and you'll be good.
     
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    general optimization if fine and recommender, like disabling useless services and various bloatware,it should be done on every computer, the rest is nonsense, because unless your computer is exclusively used for music production and nothing else,every tweak will impact on other aspects of the experience.
    I remember when on specialized press they recommended to disable graphic features so save some resources.if you want a system that looks awful and reminds of windows 98 just to save 100 mb o f ram, do it. The truth is that apart the aforementioned services to disable because they are actualy useless, the only thing you have to do is disabling sleep mode to avoid your pc from going idle while you are recording
     
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    There are no "useless" services. Services which are not required are in sleeping mode using only a tiny amount of RAM.
    Open the Task Manager, in the view menu select "Group by type" and check the "Windows processes" group.
     
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    i think they mean useless on a pc which sole purpose is music production/recording
     
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    What does it do ? :unsure:
     
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    No. I used to be really into tweaking in XP times but on Win10, I don't do anything except turn off the antivirus realtime scanning and automatic updates.
     
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    Question: Do you have any performance problems at all that justify intervening in the system? If not, why do anything at all? If there are no problems, leave the system alone. Make sure the autostart is cleaned up and the system is running in performance mode. That is all.
     
  20. terrific!

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    I agree with sinus. unless you know what youre doing, be very careful. a new pc should work fine without making any changes, but of course you can eliminate useless programs and processes to speed things up a bit. when I setup a new pc I immediately go through and delete the garbage programs installed like spotify, I do it because its annoying and I dont support them. windows has decent program removal utilities but ccleaner is a good one but I only use custom clean, registry and uninstall functions because the others can cause serious issues if you dont know what youre doing, and even still it can sometimes cause unexpected results. the same goes for other such utilities, always set a restore backup point before mucking around. even very basic hacks can wreak havoc. I learned that the hard way.
     
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    or just use atlas os...
     
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