From mskremote@yahoo.com Thu Jun 05 10:00:18 2014
Subject:Re: Advice on tuning a Windows 7 PC for VB3?

Ron I assume if you have 8 gig of RAM you have 64 bit version of Win 7 installed. VB3 is 32 bit and as it plays perfectly on XP in a Mojo I would suggest that there is an issue with 64 to 32 bit bridge.

I found B4 to be much more of a resource hog then VB3 on a 32 bit system.

If you want to try it on a mac then all you need is MainStage. But again it will need to be a 32 bit version of OSX - definitely not 10.9 Mavericks. Runs fine in 10.7.4 (Lion) for me.

Otherwise wait for the 64 bit version to be released.

"'Ron' ron.alexander10@comcast.net [CloneWheel]" wrote:

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>Thanks again for everyone's input!
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>Regarding hard drive speed or issues, if VB3 is hitting the hard drive at all during normal playing activity, then it's a very badly written program.  This is on a laptop with 8 GIGs of memory and VB3 is the only process running.  There's absolutely no reason for it to hit the hard drive when just playing notes.  Also, I don't see the disk light blink at all, so that should prove that the HD is not the issue.
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>As an experiment, I installed Native Instruments B4 II on the same laptop using the same MIDI interface, ASIO4All, and lo and behold, NO LATENCY!  I can switch back and forth between VB3 and B4 - VB3 always has the note on latency and B4 never has it. 
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>Regarding the audio interface, I have an Echo Indigo PCMCIA audio interface card which I installed to test the audio interface theories.  No difference in the VB3 latency problem.
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>Finally, to rule out any MIDI inteface issues, I picked up an M-Audio Axiom 49 USB keyboard on CraigsList.  It made no difference.  The tests above with VB3 and B4 were done using a Roland XP-50 keyboard (my main performance axe), MIDI Out into a Roland Edirol UM-1S MIDI-to-USB converter dongle, and then with the M-Audio keyboard. B4 note on is instantaneous, VB3 is practically unplayable for walking bass and jazz riffing.
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>Next step may be to try VB3 on a Macbook Pro to see if it's a Windows specific issue.  What do I need to run VB3 on a Mac?
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>Any other ideas?  Does the VB3 vs. B4 difference give anyone any clues to the problem?
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>Thanks!
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>Ron
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