I hope Jim Fogle won't mind if I quote a comment he recently made:

"RealBand (RB) handles RealTracks differently than Band-in-a-Box (BiaB). BiaB generates the first few seconds of the RealTracks in a song project then begins playback. The rest of each RealTracks is generated as a background task while the song project continues to be played. RB will not start until all of each RealTracks is generated so the time that it takes for playback to begin is much longer when compared to BiaB."

This gets me to wonder, with the advent of faster processors, more memory, SSD's etc..is the old DAW adage of setting processor priorities to background processes still relevant?

I started playing around with this a day or so ago after Misha (Rustyspoon) was asking about regeneration times in BIAB.

It seems, and here I might be mistaken, that when setting "Processor Scheduling" in "Performance Options" in Win 10 to Background Services that regeneration times are reduced as compared to setting processor priorities to "Programs". On the other hand, and again just a personal observation, it seems in doing this there might be a slight increase in latency as I had to increase my buffers from a low of 64 to 96 to take out a bit of induced static.

Does anybody have any insight into this?

Jeff


Win11, Intel i7 7700K 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2x1Tb HD, 500Gb NVMe, BIAB/RB 2024, MOTU 828MK3 audio, MOTU Midi Express, Yamaha Montage 7, DX7II, TX802, Motif XS Rack, Roland Fantom XR Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, VoiceLive3 Extreme, Kontakt 6, SampleTank 4.3