System Requirements for DC6, and Live6/Forensics

Most machines today are more than capable of handling audio processing. Hard drives have also grown to a point, where you really have no limits on what you can do…except perhaps time. As we've not yet developed time manipulation outside of the computer, let's just deal with what you'll need in the way of a PC.

• 200 MHz Pentium or better. 733 Recommended minimum (Note: Real time or faster performance can be achieved on most algorithms when using platforms based on 233 MHz Intel Pentium processors, or better. Previewing multiple filters will require a faster processor.)
• Diamond Cut LIVE's "live, real time feed-through" mode requires a Pentium 300 or faster.
• 16 bit Stereophonic Sound Card with line level inputs, or a "Digital input" Card. Real time feed through requires a full duplex sound card which can record and play at the same time.
• 32 Mbytes of RAM for Win98, 128Mbytes for XP. **
• Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP(Home or Pro) , NT 4.0 Sp3+***
• A Hard Drive with enough space to accommodate your Wave files. A formula is provided to calculate the space requirement but you should have about 2.5GB free to make a full audio CD. (The program only requires about 5 Mbytes for itself)
• DirectX version 7 or later. (may work with earlier versions but not guaranteed).
  

**Further increases in the quantity of RAM will above the minimum needed for adequate OS operation will not appreciably speed up the DC6/ Live6 algorithms since they are almost totally bound by the processor. Upgrading to a faster processor WILL allow the filters to run much faster. Here are some guidelines for various OS's

• Win98SE 64MB
• Win2000 128MB
• WinXP 512MB
  

***With the introduction of DC5 and Live5 version 5.15 you can use either MME based sound card drivers or DirectX (WDM) based sound card drivers. Some sound cards are supported better on one system or the other. If you choose to use DirectX, please note that there are some exceptions on Windows NT. For NT Microsoft only officially supports DirectX 3.0a on NT 4.0. There are many unsupported DirectX 5 for NT installations available on the Internet. Diamond Cut Productions does not recommend using NT 4.0 with this product.

****Special note for Live6/Forensics Flashback mode. Flashback mode is a RAM based instant audio recall feature that requires significant amounts of RAM. We recommend that your system has at least 512Meg of memory for use with Flashback mode.