On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:19, Joe Hartley was like: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:43:23 +0100 > > tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Which plugins are you using in the session? > > > > I use TAP plugins and SC4 a lot. :| > > A datapoint here - I've been running into a lot of plugin/denormal issues > on some sessions I've been working on. I'll run a playback, and when I > hit stop, the system load would end up at 90-95%, and dropped to about 15% > when I hit play again. > > I traced it to some EQ plugins, one from the swh collection that's part > of the Planet CCRMA distribution and another (3 band parametric) from the > TAP collection. When I substituted a different (and less flexible) EQs, > the problem went away. OK, that does seem to explain some of my issues. It does not explain my 3 minute recording window, as that happens even with no plug-ins. However, the fact that I am running on only 320M RAM may have something to do with that. I see that the ardour site has a lot more information on it than the last time I looked, so there is plenty of material and potential clues to come. Thanks for all the pointers so far. It has really eased my sense of frustration. :) -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
