It takes 4 seconds to start and to stop a song with 2008. My 2004 version starts and stops songs almost immediately w/ the play and stop icons.
4 seconds is not acceptable for live performance. If I start the wrong song which is easy to do outdoors, 4 seconds seems like an eternity to get it to stop playing.
Will one of you folks with a 1GBMHz and more memory see how long it takes to start and stop tunes. I may need a new laptop.
Thanks for the help,
Boo Hargis

Between 1 and 2 secs from hitting Play to Hearing the first countin tap here.

Stop is under a half second every time.

Intentionally invoked the VSC DXi for this test so that softsynth plus realdrums was the issue.

Then I thought about the RealInst, so loaded the Demo songs from the RealPedal up. First song to load takes between 3 and 4 secs from hitting Play to hearing stick tap, but after that every other song in the folder loads in about the same less than 2 sec interval.

Switching to RealGuit or RealSax is the same result, the very first song to load that has RealDrums, VSC DXi plus RealInst takes a bit longer to load, between 3-4 Secs, than every other song in the folder after that, which will be that 1-2 second mark.

Interestingly enough, switching back to any of the pre-opened folders with RealInst again in the same session does not require that longer 3-4 sec period for the first song chosen to load anymore. Closed BB, reopened and the dance repeats. But I could live with that on a gig.

Laptop used for this test is an HP nx6125, Turion at 2ghz, 1gig ram -- and I was running BB2008 in full from a USB outrigger drive here.

Using the built in soundcard at the time.

First thing you should try is to run the microsoft defrag program on your hard drive!

HTH,


--Mac

With Real Tracks, mine takes about 20-30 seconds. This is with my super duper onboard soundcard on my laptop, don't ya know. Its a Soundmax. ;P

Trax

That isn't a function of the soundcard, Trax, I'd bet it is a slow disk in that laptop. Sometimes a defrag can help. At this point in time, I'd say that any hard drive that is less than 5400rpm with 8mb buffer is going to be a problem and there are still many laptops offering 5400 w/only 2mb, plus there are still some 4200s out there around.


512 or less of ram can be a problem there, too. Mine woke up at the 1g ram mark.


--Mac

Mac,

I defrag every other day before hitting the sack. I have 512 in memory. I have an 80 GB with 62 GB free, dunno which type drive though?

The Real Tracks playback fine, even with DXI envoked. Just sloooooow.

Trax

Hey, it is loading much faster now. Maybe one of the updates helped? I'm in there at about 4-5 seconds now. Not bad at all.

Trax

Sounds to me like you could benefit from doubling your physical ram count if at all possible.

Memory can be filled, other times what you want to accomplish might get in there before Windoze decides to stick something else in there and then you don't have the disk swap memory cache running the BIAB stuff.

That makes it seem like the problem comes and goes, what is really happening is a resource issue.

With XP, I have found empirically that 1gb of physical ram is a good happy point the way things are at present. The future will very likely demand even more ram, Vista already does.


--Mac