[Rwp] Odd behaviour when adding an effect

[Chris Belle]

If you want to go first class and never have any headaches again as far 
as hardware performance, then getting a studio cat machine
from Jim roseberry would bring you great satisfaction, and surprisingly 
well priced for what you get.

If you are on a real budget, but want good value for a refurbished machine,
there is a place in Texas called
discountelectronics.com
they mostly do refurb dell business machines, but you can get a lot of 
machine for cheap, with a 1 year warranty, and I can't guarantee DAW 
worthiness like Jim's machines, but I have had good luck with those 
machines for light DAW duty.
I bought an i5 desktop and an i7 laptop,
and they both run sonar decently, and so will probably not even get out 
of first gear running reaper.

  the DPC latencies on them aren't wonderful like on my studio cat 
machines, no single digit values there, but not horrible I think I get 
around 100 to 70 on the i5,
a little worse on the laptop, not surprisingly, but useable.
YOu won't load up big fat projects with tons of plugs on either, but 
modest projects will run fine, and you can always freeze tracks and 
plugs to manage resources.

I did that for years, and got by with it on off the shelf machines, but 
with one of Jim's machines,
I can go full out, and almost no regard for resource management,
the power and speed are there wen I need it, the only plugs that have to 
be managed at all are things like mastering plugs or transient 
designers, which by nature have huge latencies and even plug in 
compensation won't fix that, it's just the nature of the beast.





On 9/10/2015 9:11 AM, onlineeagle via RWP wrote:
> Ah yes, I think you're right there Chris. I think I'm going to have to look at a different computer, but at least this is enough for now to start experimenting a bit with Reaper. I'll donate to the likn you sent me in a few days. I got the email, thanks.
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>> On 10 Sep 2015, at 15:04, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>
>> Laptops are notorious for glitchy performance with DAW software.
>>
>> Like it or not, many of these things were not designed to meet the demands a DAW will put on them, and if your laptop is not powerful, or has high DPC latency spikes,
>> then adding even one vst can cause glitchy playback.
>>
>> Reaper is much less a resource hog than sonar, or other DAW's but it still is a DAW, and these things can be picky.
>>
>> If you shut your lid and the problem went away, it might be a heat issue,
>> many laptops also slow down to a lower processor setting when they get hot, and so changing your power options and setting things for high performance can help if your laptop isn't suffering from getting too hot.
>> that is.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 9/10/2015 7:14 AM, onlineeagle via RWP wrote:
>>> Hi, I’ve just started using Reaper on Windows. I’m using windows 7 on a newly formatted laptop. The laptop isn’t particularly new, but I still don’t think I should be expereincing the issue I’m experiencing. As soon as I add an effect, like ReaVerb, the playback starts to become a bit glitchy. Then as soon as I move one of the sliders on the plugin, like the wet signle, playback stops. Any ideas why this might be happening? I might have to go down the route of installing windows on the mac, if the laptop isn’t up to the task, but I thought that I should be at least able to
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