Hi Peter,

Band-in-a-Box has always been 32-bit, that's normal and not connected to the issue. 32-bit applications just can't access as much memory as 64-bit ones, but your memory usage isn't even coming close to the 32-bit memory limit.

The reason the CPU usage takes a while to drop down to a normal amount is that Band-in-a-Box starts playback while the song is still generating. That's why we don't have to wait 2-3 minutes for generation to begin before the song starts playing, like in earlier versions of BIAB.

If the CPU usage is only getting up to 92%, that's a lot closer to what I'm getting with my i5, but my i5 is a lot newer than your i7 so their performance might be pretty similar.

It seems like something else was hogging CPU resources or affecting performance some other way when it went to 105%, but I'm not sure what it would have been. Are you testing it with the same song file now as when you had the problem?

Thanks
Kent
PG Music

Last edited by Kent - PG Music; 04/09/18 11:37 AM.