AAX DAW Plugin (Mac) Generation of tracks takes much much longer by plugin than BIAB Standalone. Why?

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Generation of tracks takes much much longer by plugin than BIAB Standalone. Why? #555485 09/19/19 04:12 AM Band-in-a-Box VST/AU and Pro Tools/AAX DAW Plugin (Mac)
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OP nonchai Journeyman N Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 551	I'm noticing that there are generation times of around 16 seconds being achieved in-plugin. which in BIAB standalone get done in 3-4 seconds. Whats going on here? Last edited by nonchai; 09/19/19 04:13 AM. MacOS Sequoia, M4 Pro Mac Mini , 64GB RAM 512GB SSD , BIAB, Cubase, Ableton, Logic Pro, SCALER 3, GigLad, AnyTune, Synthesizer V Pro,Vienna Ensemble Pro, Audiofuse, Fractal FM3, KOMPLETE 15, StreamDeck, iReal Pro White beard, beer belly, bald patch

Re: Generation of tracks takes much much longer by plugin than BIAB Standalone. Why? nonchai #555516 09/19/19 07:56 AM Band-in-a-Box VST/AU and Pro Tools/AAX DAW Plugin (Mac)
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Rob Helms Veteran R Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 8,792 Pawling New York	Generally the program starts playback prior to full generation. HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB/RB 2026, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 11 , Presonus Audiobox USB96

Re: Generation of tracks takes much much longer by plugin than BIAB Standalone. Why? Rob Helms #555520 09/19/19 08:27 AM Band-in-a-Box VST/AU and Pro Tools/AAX DAW Plugin (Mac)
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OP nonchai Journeyman N Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 551	Originally Posted By: RobH Generally the program starts playback prior to full generation. What do you mean? I'm not pressing PLAY at all! in both the standalone and plugin I merely present the generate button and wait for the indicator and process bar etc to tell me how far things have gone. And one - standalone - gets to finish way quicker. And if what you say is actually true they could do it for the plugin as well. But in fact I don't think you're correct. The rendered files have to be completely finished. Because I could choose to begin playback at the very last bar of the song Last edited by nonchai; 09/19/19 08:30 AM. MacOS Sequoia, M4 Pro Mac Mini , 64GB RAM 512GB SSD , BIAB, Cubase, Ableton, Logic Pro, SCALER 3, GigLad, AnyTune, Synthesizer V Pro,Vienna Ensemble Pro, Audiofuse, Fractal FM3, KOMPLETE 15, StreamDeck, iReal Pro White beard, beer belly, bald patch

Re: Generation of tracks takes much much longer by plugin than BIAB Standalone. Why? nonchai #555524 09/19/19 09:23 AM Band-in-a-Box VST/AU and Pro Tools/AAX DAW Plugin (Mac)
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Pipeline Veteran P Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 7,954	You have to go by the time it takes for the main Biab app to render all the tracks to files on your hard drive not into RAM as the main Biab app is doing. "16 seconds being achieved in-plugin" the original beta took mins ! I'm getting faster times on the Mac than Win 19 sec > 11 secs. EDIT: I think what Rob means is it starts playing the first part of the tracks that have been generated into RAM but while it's playing it's still generating the rest of the bars in the files. Last edited by Pipeline; 09/19/19 09:41 AM.

Re: Generation of tracks takes much much longer by plugin than BIAB Standalone. Why? Pipeline #555594 09/19/19 03:09 PM Band-in-a-Box VST/AU and Pro Tools/AAX DAW Plugin (Mac)
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OP nonchai Journeyman N Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 551	Originally Posted By: Pipeline You have to go by the time it takes for the main Biab app to render all the tracks to files on your hard drive not into RAM as the main Biab app is doing. Ah - in which case maybe an option to have streaming done from plugin to engine would be a preferable option to have - when not dragging tracks into the DAW. I see the drag drop aspect as something one would do when finished with the arrangement and experimentation. But before that - to be able to stream the audio from the cached audio data in RAM in the BIAB server engine must be preferable. ( or a rewire type solution ) MacOS Sequoia, M4 Pro Mac Mini , 64GB RAM 512GB SSD , BIAB, Cubase, Ableton, Logic Pro, SCALER 3, GigLad, AnyTune, Synthesizer V Pro,Vienna Ensemble Pro, Audiofuse, Fractal FM3, KOMPLETE 15, StreamDeck, iReal Pro White beard, beer belly, bald patch

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