Tuning for Speed

I've been a Mac user for pretty much my entire computing life, however, Cheapskate Studio is an equal opportunity blog and I know many people are happily creating music on their PCs. In fact popular packages such as Gigastudio & Sonar are still PC only.

There seems to be a lot of questions around performance tweaks for Windows machines & plenty of manufacturers offering audio-specific machines that supposedly address these with optimized equipment.

However, if you're handy around the control panel in XP you can do most of this yourself using this excellent & easy to follow guide from MusicXP. Some of the tweaks are fairly obvious but many are pretty deep. Best of all is the cost - nothing!