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This seems to be new. It seems to slow start of play. if you stop,make no changes and start play again, it loads into memory again.

Is this WAD?

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Hi Dan,

Welcome to the forums.

It's difficult for me to interpret your post above. I need a bit more information.

Please note that when you say, "load into memory", I am taking that to mean, "regenerate the track".

First: When you stop the song and then restart play, how do you restart play? Do you use the space-bar? Do you use the "Play" arrow? Do you use the "Generate and play" arrow? Do you double-click on a bar?

If you use the "Generate and play" arrow, then the tracks will definitely regenerate and so playback will start a little later. Try using the "Play" arrow and see if that makes a difference.

Alternatively, simply double-click on the bar from which you want to start play back.

Second: I don't know how to interpret WAD. Could you please explain the term.

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WAD - Working As Designed?


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Originally Posted By: MusicStudent
WAD - Working As Designed?
Dang, another TLA crazy


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This may be another observation of an extended time to start play on a set of tracks which has already been generated.


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This may be another observation of an extended time to start play on a set of tracks which has already been generated.

Could be Dan, See my 'theory' on a possible cause in my reply to this post.
We also need to know the length of the song. This can dramatically affect the generation time.


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Ok every time i hit Play BIAB at the top of the screen "Loading WAV file to memory ... please wait" this takes about 30 secs ... the song is 6:04 in length ...

It has nothing to do with generation ... no changes to the song are made.

So this simple sequence ... PLAY ... STOP ... PLAY causes the message above.
annoying!

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It now looks like PATCH 814 gets rid of the message at the top of the screen but it still takes 40 secs to do this simple thing PLAY ... 40 secs song starts playing(i let a few bars play) ... STOP ... PLAY ... 40 SECS song starts again at the beginning.

START ... 40 SECS ... SONG ... PAUSE/CONTINUE PAUSES ... PAUSE/CONTINUE... 40 SECS ... SONG resumes

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It now looks like PATCH 814 gets rid of the message at the top of the screen
Glad you mentioned that cause I was seeing nothing here...


Originally Posted By: pocoman54
...but it still takes 40 secs to do this simple thing PLAY ... 40 secs song starts playing(i let a few bars play) ... STOP ... PLAY ... 40 SECS song starts again at the beginning.

START ... 40 SECS ... SONG ... PAUSE/CONTINUE PAUSES ... PAUSE/CONTINUE... 40 SECS ... SONG resumes


In my mind the design requirement is for a immediate Play once the code has been generated the first time or once the tracks have been frozen. This is necessary for those of play live. I am seeing a delay (dependent on the lenght of the song), but a delay none the less in this re-play on every attempt. I am going to make an executive decision and call this a bug. I will alert the developers.


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For info: Definitely confirmed as a problem. Has been reported directly to the developers.


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Yes ... Working As Designed ... old programming sayin ...

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