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Old 12-24-2009, 01:53 PM   #1
dequalsrxt
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Default problems with reaper on my eee pc

hi all! new to reaper. anyways, the title of the thread indicates, i'm having problems running reaper on my netbook. it's an asus eee pc 1005ha. i saw the other netbook thread elsewhere in the forums, and from what i understood reading that thread and others on the interwebz, it seems things should be running better than they do. i threw this in the n00b forums, since, well, i'm a n00b and i'm not totally sure that there's something simple that i'm missing...

here's the background -I'm at my folks' now for x-mas, so i'm trying things out w/vst's, but at my place, i use hardware exclusively, aside from recording. I've been looking for a decent program for my netbook to run more complex MIDI stuff, since my main seq. is a MPC2000xl, and maybe some simple audio recording so i have a backup recording device when my hand-me-down g4 eventually craps out on me.

so, here's the issue - when reaper is up, it uses up a BUNCH of cpu right off the bat, even with no tracks, no instruments, etc. it bounces between about 15 and 30% in the performance meter in reaper. In my task manager, it actually shows the cpu using between 30 and 50% when reaper is up as the main window, and if i switch to another window, for example to make this post, it eventually drops back down to about 1 to 5%.

i think this might problem is exclusive to reaper: i tried the live intro demo on my machine the other night and it ran fine as long as i used a lightweight vst. i experimented with how far i could push things, and i think i had the reverb up to about a 60 sec. decay before the cpu meter went to 50%

sooo... any ideas? anyone else run into similar problems? thanks and happy non-denomenational gift-exchange and feasting holiday all!
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