The Trumpet and Aspire One
I installed The Trumpet on an Acer Aspire One (the 120 HD version, Windows XP 32-bit), using a U2A audio interface (USB 1.1) with the programmata driver. The Aspire One has a dual core CPU (Intel Atom, 1.6 GHz) and 1GB memory. It is not a normal laptop, it is a mini-laptop or as it is called netbook.
With 7ms latency setting, I have dropouts, with 11ms there are some dropouts (still too much for live performance), and with 15ms it is acceptable, but less fun because of the lag. I can see that the Kontakt player uses only one core, even when multiprocessor support is checked. Obviously the Atom CPU is not recognized as a dual core CPU. Other programs do.
On the other hand, the Kontakt 3 demo does recognize the two cores, and the performance is slightly better (the second core is at 15% or so, not 90% like the first core).
And here is my question: does anyone run The Trumpet on an Aspire One with better performance? Using Kontakt 3 and a modern audio interface (USB2, good driver)?
It would be just great to have The Trumpet mobile and battery driven like the controller, the Akai EWI4000s. I still have hope that it might work.
As a sidenote, it is very good to have the mutes controllable with CC100 in the beta version 2.01, I use them much more now.
With 7ms latency setting, I have dropouts, with 11ms there are some dropouts (still too much for live performance), and with 15ms it is acceptable, but less fun because of the lag. I can see that the Kontakt player uses only one core, even when multiprocessor support is checked. Obviously the Atom CPU is not recognized as a dual core CPU. Other programs do.
On the other hand, the Kontakt 3 demo does recognize the two cores, and the performance is slightly better (the second core is at 15% or so, not 90% like the first core).
And here is my question: does anyone run The Trumpet on an Aspire One with better performance? Using Kontakt 3 and a modern audio interface (USB2, good driver)?
It would be just great to have The Trumpet mobile and battery driven like the controller, the Akai EWI4000s. I still have hope that it might work.
As a sidenote, it is very good to have the mutes controllable with CC100 in the beta version 2.01, I use them much more now.