Hi tributeman,

>> notice in my add\remove programs that there is a band in a box server with a size of 40 thousand mb which made my eyes pop out.

This is normal, and not the cause of the problem. Windows is reporting the size of the installer, and not the bandinaBoxServer (which is tiny). You may as well shut down BandInABoxServer anyway, although it doesn't use much memory or CPU.

The main issue would be that your 1.5GB Athlon XP system is slow, and if you use lots or RealTracks at once, then the CPU is getting maxed out as it is playing them, while it is also stretching and transposing them. Having said that, I program BB on a HP XP laptop with AMD and don't get jitter, even with lots of RealTracks.

Anyway, you can reduce the workload for BB during playback, by precompiling the songs. Choose Edit-Prefs-RealTracks and disable "Fast Generation", Your songs will take longer to generate before play starts, but you wont be maxing the CPU. If this solves the problem, then set Fast Generation back on, and just disable it for complex songs (lots of RealTracks, the ones that have problems for you)... you can disable for a single song in Edit-Song Settings "Song has playback problems, disable fast generation"

You should run a "Geekbench" speed test on your PC, at http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/
Typical new PC's have scores between 4,000 and 7,000
Scores of under 2,000 are quite low, and you might have problems as above, on songs with lots of RealTracks.

Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.