[RWP] reaper running slow

indigo 33indigo at charter.net
Thu Apr 19 17:24:13 EDT 2012


Well, that's the explanation, the Acer Atom processer is very feeble.
I think Jaws uses up half of your processer power just for itself, and 
Reaper and a few plugs are going to use the rest.
Even so, defrag, clean out temp files, scan for viruses, all the usual 
things to keep any computer going.
Indigo L


On 4/19/2012 5:16 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
> one more comment:
> The only instances when reaper begins to run slow for me is on the net book when I have four tracks open, and each track has at least 2 realtime effects processes going on...that is 8 realtime effects processes, as well as at least one master track process.
> In this case, reaper runs slow, and the audio begins to fragment and skip and jitter allot...I can crash the machine if I use 3 processes per track and two on the master track...
> This is on an acer  1.7GHZ, 1GB of ram and 160GB HD netbook though, so I am in no way surprised at it's limitations.
> On my 2.8GHZ del desktop with 512MB of ram and a 40GB hard drive, I can easily get 4 or 5 realtime processes running per track, and still edit and quickly navigate and start and stop audio without any lagging or noticeable slowing.
> So, if you are using a machine that is at least equivalent to my desktop as per specs, then you should have no issues unless there is a windows or hardware issue slowing the entire machine down.
>
> regards
> Colin
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: colin McDonald
>    To: Reapers Without Peepers
>    Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:05 PM
>    Subject: Re: [RWP] reaper running slow
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>    indigo has good suggestions.
>    reaper is one of the fastest DAWS i've ever used, so if it's lagging that badly, it's more than likely a computer hardware/software issue.
>    You could try uninstalling reaper and ReaAccess and reinstalling again to see if that helps as well...
>
>    regards
>    Colin
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Matthew Turner
>      To: reaper mailing list
>      Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:14 PM
>      Subject: [RWP] reaper running slow
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>
>      hay there, don’t know if its just the computer or reaper, but when I arrow up an down tracks response is very slow, also happens when searching thru reaper plug ins any help?
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