glithcy tune

[dennisandcheryl]

i am sure this has been covered before but anyway my last tune i casted (crumble)gave me nothing but problems...it was fine until i started laying down the solos..what i did was 3 different song layers.was that the problem...is there only susposed to be one


hope this makes sense
thanks dennis

[Wedgebill]

That's not the problem, I think you can have 24 Songlayers on RW STD, more likely to be the amount of ram in your pc, someone will soon chip in and tell me I'm wrong though

[atalwar]

It Could be Latency/buffer size Issue with asio driver. Try increasing it a bit

as it Might be geting too much data to process in too little time.

[davenz]

Either that or your processor isnt up to the task (which might occur if your buffers are set too low, as atalwar suggested). This software is very resource hungry and I recommend at least 2 gigs of RAM and a dual core CPU of some description if you want to lay down more than a few layers.

If you are using Windows, you can try setting all your graphics options within Windows to Classic (to get rid of cpu-cycle-hogging eye candy) and kill all resident programs like anti-virus scanners, anti-spyware apps etc. while you use Riffworks to free up RAM. If you have Norton or McAfee or similar, get rid of it and use something lighter, like AVG and/or SuperAntiSpyware.

If you lighten the load on Windows you should get far better performance of those programs that really count, like Riffworks!

Dave.

[Charvelguy]

or a raptor hard drive, or one of the newer dual disc 640gb drives would help too.

[pooterpatty]

To expand on Dave's suggestion, when you bring up the Windows Task Manager, you should be familiar with all the programs in that list. If you're not sure what one of them does, Google it for an explanation. If it doesn't need to be running, kill it - it's just eating up memory.

Just about every program you install will want to run when Windows starts (that's why whenever you install ANY program you should choose CUSTOM instead of TYPICAL, so you can turn that feature off before it's installed). I use a free program called Startup Inspector for Windows to tell me what's set to run on my system at startup. There are some apps that will try to run at startup even when you explicitly tell them not to, like QuickTime. There are others that try to hide themselves from Windows' Task Manager so you can't turn them off. Startup Inspector catches all of them, and allows you to remove them from the startup menu one-by-one with an easy to understand GUI for idiots like me. I've been using it for years and I love it.

When I go to record I will still bring up the Task Manager and make sure everything that doesn't need to be running is shut down (there are even some Windows processes that you can shut down as well - again just Google for an explanation of which apps you need and which you don't). Anything you can do to free up resources will make your Riffworks experience more enjoyable.

[Charvelguy]

I do that as well as there were many apps running I had no idea what they were, important apps or not..I had to Google em and sort it out.
I find alot idle processes can really eat up system resources.
I use software explorer quite a bit also as windows XP is very easy to bloat.