Re: Laptop Looping

[midifriedchicken@comcast.net]

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.

 

> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> 
>
> > On 23 aug 2007, at 17.23, midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote: 
> > 
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > 
> > 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) 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >