Sounds odd to abandon laptop looping
because of one VST host. Live isn’t as good as Bidule, but on the other
hand it comes with a full complement of great plug-ins and is a pretty capable
DAW.
I don’t remember you saying if you
were using Firewire or USB for audio.
-----Original Message-----
From: midifriedchicken@comcast.net
[mailto:midifriedchicken@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007
8:23 AM
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Laptop Looping
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 when 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.
