hey, i'm looking for some info re setting up fl studio 6 on my inspiron 9300 with stock sound card and sigmatel c-major audio driver. right now, the sound messes up pretty bad when i try to playback more complicated compositions. is there any way to configure fl studio 6 so it will run perfectly on my 9300? cheers for this, any help would be really appreciated.

What CPU do you have? A lot of tracks usually bog down the CPU since the on board sound utilizes it.

if anyone's interested, increasing buffer length a little seems to solve sound atifacts etc. increasing buffer length til latency is around 50ms seems to make everything run smoothly. that's for a 9300: 2gig pentium m, 1gig ram, sigmatel c-major audio.

thanks for the reply dude, think i've got that prob sorted now. d'you by any chance know of any decent fl studio 6 tutorials?

This forum is pretty on it:
http://www.majorfm.com/forum/fruity-loops.html

There are alot more out there, just google fruity loops forum and check out some sites.

If you are going to be doing some serious track composition, look into getting a better sound card than the built in one. You need one with VERY LOW latency. Also, a card that supports ASIO is preferable.

The creative audigy series is good, but if you are truly serious, look into M-audio products. It's what all my computer studio friends use (if they are not using Macs already. ;-)

M-audio, E-mu, Don't forget firewire external rackmounts if your crazed =D