From toby@hartdyke.com Sat Jun 01 19:12:23 2002
Subject:Re: B-4 - WinXP a pig ?


What's the sound card? What kind of drivers? If it's something standard
(Sound Blaster running MME) that's likely to be your problem. You *can* get
decent performance from some of these cards (someone else will have to tell
you how), but I just rip 'em out and put in something from M-Audio or RME...

Toby

At 08:54 PM 6/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a laptop with WinXP Home, 1ghz, 256M memory.
>
>B-4 playing a relatively simple tune (Chris Tomlin's 'Forever', q=120,
>quarter note "pointer chords" 888000000 and a melody line 808808088) has
>trouble playing it.
>
>The chords tend to run together, like they're whole notes. This is just
>playing a flat midi file, no sequencer or anything feeding it. I haven't
>tried sending the same midi file to the CX-3 yet.
>
>Incidentally, starting Band-in-a-box on this machine is REALLY slow too... so
>I'm thinking it may be the machine ...
>
>Comments ?
>
>Doug