Specifications

CHAPTER 2
Set Up Your Cakewalk Hardware Profile
Of course, making many of the previously mentioned changes to your
computer system every time you want to use SONAR and then changing
them back for normal system use can be a major hassle. Luckily,
Windows includes a handy feature called Hardware Profiles. You can
think of Hardware Profiles as Windows presets, similar to synthesizer or
audio effects gear presets. Using the Hardware Profiles feature, you can
store a number of Windows configuration settings under a unique name
and then recall those settings when you start your computer system. So,
for instance, you can have a profile to set up your hardware for normal
system use, another profile for computer gaming, yet another profile for
audio recording, and so on. Creating Hardware Profiles is very simple,
too; you just do the following:
1. Open the Windows Control Panel, double-click on System, and click
on the Hardware Profiles tab in the System Properties dialog box.
The dialog box should look similar to Figure 2.15.
2. More than likely a default profile called “Original Configuration” will
be listed. This configuration holds your current system settings. Click
on it to select it.
3. Click on the Copy button to make a copy of the Original
Configuration profile.
4. In the Copy Profile dialog box, type a new name for the new profile—
something like SONAR Configuration. Then click on the OK buttons
to close both dialog boxes.
5. Restart your computer. At startup, your system will ask you to choose
a hardware profile. Select SONAR Configuration.
6. Go through the list of tweaks that I described earlier, such as the hard
drive DMA setting, video acceleration setting, and so on.
Figure 2.15
The Hardware Profiles
tab of the System
Properties dialog box
shows the different
hardware
configurations.
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