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Re: Laptop Looping



I believe Bidule is the culpret because with the activity viewer utility on, I can see the system requirements (which are shown as red dots on a graph). There are cpu spikes that coincide with the dropouts that are represented by the red parts of the graph rising to 100%.  I've tried this with and without SL. Same result. I tried it with Ableton Live and could not replicate this. There might very well be something wrong with my computer, but I dont think so.
 
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From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>

> On 23 aug 2007, at 17.23, midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote:
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> > So the cpu spikes I was seeing on the activity viewer on my 1.5gig
> > PB seem to be caused by Bidule. I can't seem to replicate this
> > behavior with any other application. Live 6 with SL actually works
> > better. The cpu spikes were creating dropouts and audio glitches
> > that are unacceptable for live work. The flexible routing in Bidule
> > is beyond cool, but the glitches make it unuseable, for me anyway.
> > I tried raising the audio buffer on both Bidule and/or the
> > interface. But all that did was increase latency beyond playable
> > levels.
> > My laptop looping experiment has failed miserably. Maybe wh en I can
> > get a faster machine I'll go back.
> > I'm guessing in the Ambient genre its easier to hide the
> > limitations because a lot of the sounds you would use are actually
> > similer to the glitchy clicks I was getting. Plus the latency is
> > easier to hide with all those delays. But for now, its back to the
> > RC50 for my acoustic stuff. Live and SL are great for the
> > electronica gig I have. I just wish Live had the routing flexibilty
> > that Bidule has.
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>
> Your hints are interesting and suggest option to learn something
> useful. Would you mind posting the reason why you think Bidule is the
> bad guy?
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
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