Can I amend Beatstation settings to reduce CPU load?

[denalihighway]

Hi
recently purchased Beatstation. Looks brilliant, I’ve been messing around with it and very excited about using it.

Problem is it is overloading CPU/ASIO when I use it with my DAW. I’ve investigated my laptop specs and tried various ways to reduce CPU usage, including turning off CPU throttling in setup but nothing seems to be working.

Due to the heavy graphic/other content of Beatstation it seems to be quite heavy on CPU usage.

CPU usage spikes around 32% with DAW, interface and track playing. Goes through the roof and glitches as soon as I fire up Beatstation.

It has been suggested that I can amend the Beatstation settings to reduce the CPU usage. Possibly turning off some of the graphics? Possibly turning of the plugins on individual drums and saving this as an opening template?

Have others come across this and have you any suggestions?

Thanks for any help

I’m using:

Laptop
Dell Latitude D620
Intel Core 2 CPU
T5600 @ 1.83 GHz
988MHz, 1.99 GB RAM

DAW – Cubase LE5
Interface – Tascam MK122

I'm hamfistedly using: Laptop Dell Latitude D620 Intel Core 2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83 GHz 988MHz, 1.99 GB RAM Windows XP DAW - Cubase LE5 Interface - Tascam MK122

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[denalihighway]

anyone out there?
 
just to update. after some suggestions, I set my default kit with all effects off to try to reduce CPU load. didn’t make much difference.
 
would appreciate if anyone had anyone could help.

I'm hamfistedly using: Laptop Dell Latitude D620 Intel Core 2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83 GHz 988MHz, 1.99 GB RAM Windows XP DAW - Cubase LE5 Interface - Tascam MK122

[Scott]

You can try raising your buffer setting for your sound card. Unless I’m recording with a MIDI controller, I run my buffer at 1024 samples. 

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Butter Buns]

get a new machine. laptops with i5 processors are well under a g

[Author]

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