Originally Posted By: Peters Garage
Has anyone experienced, that the audio chokes and plays unevenly?

My Mac is an i7 2.2 Ghz 16 GB RAM SSD 1TB - the model is late 2011 running latest version of OSX and BIAB.

During play back the activity monitor shows, that BIAB uses between 105% of CPU running 14 threads. For comparison, when I run Logic Pro X (latest version) using 28 tracks (a mixture of WAV and MIDI + various iZotope plugins) it never exceed 65% of CPU load, which in theory should be more digestive than a 5 track RealTRACK Amen Rock playing at 125 BPM or 120 BPM.

Any suggestions?


That is very interesting because i do not have that problem .

I am running macOS Sierra 10.13.3 on my iMac 2009 edition ( 12 GB RAM ) from an external FireWire drive. The Band is installed/running on a 2 TB USB drive purchased from PG.

Just tried _COOLOFF Demo - Cool Off Jazz Funk w Nylon Guitar ( refer to screen shots ). Activity monitor settled down to about 46 % . FireFox, Thunderbird, Typeit4Me, Launch Bar, CopyPaste Pro running in the background.

I'll try Logic Pro X later on for curiosity although never had chocking issues even playing their demo's e.g. " numbers " .


Having said all that hope i fully understood your problem.

Would be interested to hear your findings after you try the Band's demo Cooloff...

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Last edited by w; 03/12/18 04:01 PM.

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