babybloc
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Slow responses, just getting started - 2006/06/18 15:21
I've just been trying this, and I really like the idea of having something designed to play through, not to record/mix/edit. I just wanted to try out effects, and play around, maybe live eventually.
So far, it's fun, but seems to drag and hog CPU on my little (?) 15" Powerbook (1.25GHz, with 1.25 GB ram). My 100GB drive is pretty full, with 13GB free this evening, does RAX need big empty drive space? I didn't see system requirements on your home-page, are they there somewhere?
I'm only running one real instrument through my Presonus Firebox. Rax hung a few times and I had to force-quit. Once it took a long time to register that quit, and hung slooowing down the whole system. Drag.
It feels like it sometimes takes a long time to register mouse clicks, and the "user" CPU runs pretty high. Not as hot as Garageband, which seems to use "System" level CPU more, according to Activity Monitor. One of my goals is to play-through better than Garageband, but I wish it was a little quicker for me.
I haven't even tried the visualizations yet. Just getting the basic audio working.
Don't know if I'll buy this yet, sure might if I get it going. I really tried to find an app that does this, and here it is; I hope it works for me.
Any suggestions for getting it to run, "snappier?"
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