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Touch Gui slowing on heavy project...question


Misha

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Hi Folks.

Got this question for pros. I used touch screen function a lot when working on projects to zoom in / locate segments etc. in Cake.

When I have a "heavy" project. (30+tracks), touch / pinch zoom response  is laggy.  Is it possible to address this somehow inside Cakewalk settings  or perhaps in graphic card settings?

My card is ok: Geforce  GTX 1050...   Or this is the nature of heavy projects and this is how it is?  I do not want to try random things if there is a proper way to do this.

 

Thank you.

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Lots of audio takes+plugins+some midi. 

The project  touch/navigation/zoom lag is happening only with heavy projects. If I have 10-15 tracks or so, it is fine.

So the question is:  if it is a nature of big projects or it can be addressed  with settings in Cakewalk, Windows or GPU...?

 

Thanks.

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Midi can be an issue across lots of lanes. When i practice my guitar adding 100 midi lanes to a track, navigation performance falls apart. Archiving or deleting unused midi is the fix for me.

When i have issues it isn't touch specific. It holds up everything.

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idk. It might be that hiding the midi tracks would make it easier to navigate and showing them when you need them.

It's hard to guess whether a better PC would make the problem go away for you. Obviously bigger better faster is better bigger and faster.

For me, I can't easily change my PC. I got my current computer around 2007, but it's a Studio Cat.

I do take steps like hiding tracks that are slowing up the daw if it helps the performance. I don't have problems often, but I do sometimes need to do something to simplify things if I'm bumping my head on a limitation.

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Gswitz, I do thank you for the input, but hiding, freezing is not something I want to include in the workflow. I rather have laggy touch response :)

However, if it is possible, to manage lagginess of touch response of big projects  with settings / resource adjustment, I would like to know the things I should try.

My computer is fairly new (2018) and GPU is also fast Geforce  GTX 1050. There maaaany... settings related to video performance scattered everywhere,  I really do not want to try "everything" approach.

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This is happening on mixed projects Audio + midi, when they reach certain "weight" not specifically midi or specifically audio.

I believe in video games you adjust settings in GPU... (I am not a gamer, so guessing). So still unclear if GPU lagginess of large projects related to the project ="project dependent",  or the graphics/touch/zoom for Cakewalk interface can be adjusted somewhere?

 

Thanks.

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Gswitz.

It is not Midi specific. I do not run more than ~10 Midi tracks at once. Project is mainly audio.

For example the latest would be: 6 Midi tracks through Halion VST, about 30 audio tracks, with approximately 400 take lanes, mostly short (10-30 seconds).  95% of take lanes are muted, so about 30 active audio segments and of course VST FX. 

Most likely this question is for someone who knows how the touch transport / zoom works in relation to the Cake project/Windows/GPU and if it is "adjustable". Not really interested in "compacting" or "freezing" project parts, I rather live with graphics lag :)  But if it is possible to address without modifying actual tracks, would appreciate the info. 

 

Thanks.

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Misha, I've tried to repeat your case in an effort to help. I haven't been successful and I'm out of ideas. Sorry I couldn't help.

I did notice that when I made really complex projex with tons of tracks that the GPU was not pushed. I could get things to slow down a little once I had more than 100 take lanes of audio and midi spread across 20 tracks but while monitoring the CPU and GPU, they really weren't taxed. Things just moved slower.

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