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One thing is consistent is that is occurs when an action requires a recompose. The status will say, "Please wait..."



On my setup, I've had that problem also. Defragging both the C drive and also the drive where the Realtracks/Realdrums are stored solves it here.

I use the dedicated Piriform Defraggler software, the free download version, to do this rather than the microsoft defragmenter. It is faster, seems to work better, and a wonderful feature is that it also allows me to choose just what folders to defrag rather than the whole shebang every time.

The Realtracks come from disk and get swapped over to physical RAM whenever one is loaded or you hit the Play button. From then on, that performance is in RAM unless and until you invoke a change and have to hit Play to force a regeneration. Then, of course, the entire disk to ram thing must occur again to cover the added changes.

If you aren't running enough physical RAM, then windows will go ahead and use part of the C disk for a RAM swap in order to fit it all in. But since the tracks may be coming from the same hard drive as the ram swap can take place on, or in the case of the external USB drive, transfer from there to an attempt at RAM writing followed by an attempt at disk swap writing once the system "knows" that the critical RAM resource is all used up with the previous song loadings, all sorts of timing probs can happen. So making sure you have as much RAM as possible for you OS is always a good thing as well.

With today's operating systems and puters, there are fewer tweaks needed than ever before to get a good music playing system, but one I still use is to visit the Hardware Manager and manually set the disk cache size rather than that quaint old, "Let Windows handle it" routine. I set my cache to be *twice* my physical ram size, which is read out there. So, if, for instance, you have 1g of RAM, set the cache size to be 2g (or really 2048 or some sum near to it). Those trhying to run Realtracks on older machines that came with XP and only 512mb of RAM should seriously consider the purchase of 1 to 3g of RAM for the thing.

And by all means do the DEFRAG ss well.


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