Use of the Conductor feature and finding pauses or other glitches can be cause by not enough cpu speed, not enough ram, but may also be simply a matter of the disk access times.

In other words, I've found that having BB on the USB drive is sometimes problematic when using the Conductor with RealTracks and Softsynths that may take up more resources.

So then I must have enough room on my c: drive to install all of BB inclusive of Realtracks and Realdrums, or install another internal hard drive to install them on.

Also, I've found it important to DEFRAG the internal hard drives perhaps a bit more often than usual to keep the Conductor running fine.

Another thing, I have noticed that use of a hardware MIDI synth seems to make my use of the Conductor feature a bit less problematic as well, presumably because using a MIDI synth that does its processing outside the domain of the pc also frees up a bit of needed resources.

That said, I don't have a whole lot of experience in using the Conductor feature, don't use it regularly enough, but have invoked it at parties and jam sessions where I've put the laptop on the pianoboard and jacked it into a sound system and someone comes along with a horn or other instrument and wants to jam on a song. Can keep repeating middle choruses as long as needed, that sort of thing. I don't think of it for use when I'm practicing, but then to my way of thinking all I'd be really practicing at that point would be the act of using the Conductor feature. For woodshedding I greatly prefer simply highlighting a target number of bars and using the Play Loop feature found under the Play menu. It will repeat the highlighted section forever or until I hit stop.


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