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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2005"Attention Musicians" - Using Powertab and other notation programs w/playback sound.
I just loaded Virtual PC and everything was going great until I tried to listen back to midi notes played from Powertab and other musical notation programs. The notes do not play back with out major sluggishness. I have 1.5GB of ram. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Nick Matty www.nickmatty.com > I just loaded Virtual PC and everything was going great until I tried > to listen back to midi notes played from Powertab and other musical [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > www.nickmatty.com You've done all the "usual things" outlined in the VPC help to "optimize performance of Windows"--changing display to Windows 98 mode with no images or special effects including the Start and Control Panel, removing themes and visual effects, and turning off remote desktop and system restore. Right? If so, I think you're seeing the nature of an emulator vs. a real live machine. You might try it on a G5, but other than that, I think you'll have to live with this performance or switch to a real pc.  SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... Midi is very, very sensitive to timing and interrupts... as such, I would expect it to perform less than stellar, if at all within Virtual PC. my answer is simple, having a little more Mac specialization: you should get a virtual pc *card*.. something that physically goes into your Mac. see http://www.macwindows.com.. they've been discontinued but you might be able to get one on ebay. they're called "coprocessor cards". also, I question whether there isn't great native (Mac OS X) MIDI software you can be using. Please write back. I'd love to try and help you find a native app. Oh, and the Intel switchover will fix the speed issues in Virtual PC. Hope this helps. --Sam >Oh, and the Intel switchover will fix the speed issues in Virtual PC Where did you get this information from? There has been no disclosure from Microsoft claiming better speed and performance with VPC running on Macs with Intel processors. In fact, I seriously doubt whether MS is testing VPC on Intel-based Macs as yet, since they are still in the development stages. |
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