[RWP] reaper running slow

[colin McDonald]

heh, mines pink, very cute!
I call it pink floyd...it was the only model they had left with windows 
xp...
regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] reaper running slow


>I bought a Hannsspree netbook, with an Atom 1.88 mhz, 1 gig of ram, and it 
>was way too slow, so I sent it back.
> Sure are cute little computers, though.
>
>
> On 4/19/2012 5:29 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
>> I know.
>> I do all those things on a regular basis.
>> But I know it's a $200 net book and it's not going to be a DAW power
>> house lol.
>> Also, I tend to have audio scattered across the network, and if I am
>> accessing the audio from a folder, via the network, on another machine,
>> it'll lag down as well because reaper is having to access the audio over
>> the network which is presumably slower than directly from the hard drive.
>> So now I make sure the audio I want to work with is stored in a folder
>> on the machine I am using reaper on.
>>
>> Regards
>> Colin
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] reaper running slow
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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