wierd stutter caused by time stretching?

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wierd stutter caused by time stretching?

so i was working on a demo the other day and i had to bring a track down from 132 to 129 bpm and noticed that there was a good bit of stuttering. now, earlier in the set i had brought a 125 up to 128 and noticed the same thing, but there was little to no stuttering at any other point in the set.
have you ever heard or noticed that adjusting the tempo that much would cause stuttering?

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The stuttering most probably is caused by too much CPU load. Try if you can cut back on that.
Rendering “difficult” MIDI tracks, or tracks with loadsa VST plugins to wav and than playback usually does the trick if it is caused by CPU load.

[software rant]
I heared it sometimes being created in Logic.
When I moved to Ableton, this became non existent.
[/software rant]

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I agree this is most likely caused by cpu load, tell us what your cpu load is when its stuttering - you may need to upgrade.

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hum… ill have to keep an eye on it when it happens again.

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If you running a mac laptop, check your power settings…make sure your power adaptor is plugged and ‘better performance’ is checked in the battery menu, switch off airport and bluetooth and quit all other unnecessary apps and start traktor a fresh or reboot fully.

It’s also worth rebooting from your mac os install dvd and ‘fixing permissions’ using disk utility from time to time.

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using a dell. i just bought a new harddrive (upgrading from the 60gig that came with it to a 250) and i plan on dual booting, one vista for general use and the second with xp pro which shoulod help with performance. my xp install will have absolutely nothing unnecessary. ill let you know how it works out, should be happening this weekend.

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XP does run better i had to install a second partition for this purpose too >=(

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figures…

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yea… im just hoping that i can get the drivers i need for xp… my dell came with vista.

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use a 7200rpm hard drive if you can and bung plenty of ram in there

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7200rpm was out of my pricerange with the size i needed…
i havnt had a chance to plug everything up and test it, but i am expecting that it will be ok. well see how it goes. i streamlined some things installed a real copy of windows instead of the dell copy (installs a bunch of worthless stuff). got a few other things taken care of. ill let you know how it is, i may also need to play with some settings in traktor to optimize the performance.