I've installed BB on new machine with 1.6Ghz processor, 8Gb RAM. But I've noticed audio stutter after playing a few songs. It happens randomly. Even used external Audio Interface, shut down all unnecessary processes, but still has the problem.
So just asking if it could perhaps be Harddrive access? Realdrums & Realtracks are on my C: drive
What are you remaining specs? 1.6GHz what kind of processor? 8 GB RAM won't be your problem. Do you know what speed your hard drive is?
Does it stutter every time you play or just the first time? If just the first time, it could be the hard drive as BIAB continues to generate the remainder of the song as it starts to play. The second time through, the song has already been generated (assuming no changes were made), so no background generation occurs in that case.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
As John said, tell us more. 1.6 is rather low nowdays, so I'm thinking laptop?
Several things to try, but start by addressing John's questions. Also download and run the free utility, Geekbench, and report the single-core score.
There is a setting in Options, Preferences, RealTracks to address the problem John cited. And there are other related settings, all without touching the operating system. But we need to know more.
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A few years ago, I had quite a lot of audio stuttering and it turned out that the culprit was a highly fragmented hard drive.
I ran Windows defrag over night and the next time I worked with audio, all the stuttering was gone.
I've also had an antivirus program cause stuttering. Because the av program was constantly checking, when working with audio, the computer was multitasking beyond its ability. When I excluded my audio-related and BIAB/RB-related folders from being checked by the av program, the stuttering stopped.
Right-click on the chord sheet, select "Song Settings", and then activate the option that disables fast generation of Realtracks (see image below).
This forces all the backing to be generated before BIAB starts playing. It will take 30 seconds or so longer to generate a song but it could stop the stuttering.
Fast RT generation is a background process and uses significant computer resources. If the song you are playing is a fairly fast tempo, it might be that the tast generation cannot work quickly enough to stay ahead.
By the way, the Belarc Advisor is a nice tool to find out exactly what the configuration of your computer is, as well as tell you its security posture. It's free to use and generates more than you'll ever want to know about your computer. It queries a lot of your system and comes back with a pretty detailed picture of processor, memory, hard drives, peripherals, video, audio, etc.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
By the way, the Belarc Advisor is a nice tool to find out exactly what the configuration of your computer is, as well as tell you its security posture. It's free to use and generates more than you'll ever want to know about your computer. It queries a lot of your system and comes back with a pretty detailed picture of processor, memory, hard drives, peripherals, video, audio, etc.
Thanx for this John. I had never heard of it before and it looks like a good tool to have.
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64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
thanks for the info: My info: Yes its a mini laptop &-inch Tablet PC OS: Win10 Home HDD: SSD drive 128Gb capacity Processor: Intel Atom x7-Z8750 @ 1.6GHz RAM: 8Gb System: x64bit Audio: Realtek
Win10Pro,i9,64GB,2TBSSD+20TBHDDs,1080TI,BIAB'24,Scarlett18i8,Montage7,Fusion 8HD,QS8,Integra7,XV5080,QSR,SC-8850,SPLAT,FL21&others,Komp.14,IK suite&others, just a guitar player-AXE FX III &FM9T, FishmanTP, MIDIGuitar2, GK2/3'sw/GI20
I ran another test with all system drivers loaded, firefox browser running, and put BIAB in Jukebox Mode, looping about 100 songs (each time new song generation)...no problem...but then at other times, unexpectedly, it does the audio stutter thing after just a few songs
Main Circuit Board b Board: AMI Corporation Default string Default string Serial Number: Default string Bus Clock: 80 megahertz UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 5.11 05/26/2017
Processor a 1.60 gigahertz Intel Atom x7-Z8750 224 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache 64-bit ready Multi-core (4 total) Not hyper-threaded
Drives 124.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 9.57 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
IMHO the tablet OS is the most likely issue. Maybe the way it handles HDD or other resources but I'm guessing "Intel Atom" is part of the issue.
Mysterious problems like this are the most difficult to troubleshoot, but your posts do give some clues. You're not working in a normal Windows environment compared to most users from what I can tell.
Last edited by rharv; 08/08/1703:58 PM.
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OK, now we're talking real facts with the PC specs.
You don't even have a "harddrive" as in the post title. You have a solid state drive. This is great, the best thing about that PC by far! I suspect the problem lies elsewhere.
The Geekbench single-core score will reveal if the Atom CPU is adequate for BIAB.
In the meantime, go into Options, Preferences, Realtracks and find several checkboxes related to "slow PCs" and make those adjustments.
Did it come with a whole bunch of software preloaded? Blowing that away might help a lot.
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That doesn't matter, Biab won't run well on an Atom processor. 634? That's barely half of the minimum needed. 10 year old Core Duo's still score in the 1100 range and that's about as low as you can go.
RAM ... found with a lot of software that you need sufficient RAM, i went for 32 GB now, maybe an overkill, but (let alone for occasional windows issues itself) my win10 64bit PC runs smoothly with a lot of programs loaded at times. Also found this with a laptop some years ago. - F
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