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Originally posted by leeboy:
James,
Yep good way to do it...BUT, anything, anything at all, your fault, my fault, nobody's fault (Quote from a movie!) that crunches the CPU during live play...enough that the CPU can't get the sound into RAM...and...Dropout happens.
The OS and complete system must be optimized and have safeguards to try to prevent this.

But, it can happen in the right situation.

IMHO, with Windows this is more concern than Linux? The CPU speed and all other aspects must be way overkill to hopefully prevent this.

Then, what about very heavy polyphony????
And who can really predict how many notes may need to go at the same time?

Lee S.


Lee, I NEVER had any issues with dropouts, or timing glitches when streaming with the MS.

In some Combo patches (multi-instrument patches) I had up to 4 VST's/Giga samples streaming, and playing two-handed chordal patterns. No problems at all.

And these were being played over the top of audio/midi backing tracks....

To give you deeper info, the CPU I had was a 2.6 g dual core AMD chip, with 6 gig of ram. So nothing out of the ordinary.

If a user of an MS REALLY wanted to go heavy on streaming, they ALWAYS have the option of increasing the CPU and RAM on any given MS system.

An option NOT available on any "fixed hardware" keyboard.

Truly, dropouts and audio glitches just don't happen on the MS

Dennis