Streaming Audio File Player becomes irresponsive

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Hi,

in GP5, using the Streaming Audio File Player, I have 44 drum loops in it. I use the “loop” option, and after some loops, the player becomes more an more irresponsive, so clicks are almost not working anymore, and the UI is refreshed less than once a second. If I close it and reopen it, it’s back working again, until I loop some more.
(MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1).

Cheers,
Laurent

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Are you using actions in the player?

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No, simple manual use, I just have a button to open it.

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Is it possible the drive is having issues keeping up with the streaming? Is it a separate drive (from OS drive)? Is it a solid state drive?

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Good idea, but no, it’s the internal SSD of a Mac Studio, and it’s very efficient. By the way, the sound is working correctly, and the other plugins too, it’s just that player itself slows down a lot and become irresponsive.

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@lostin70s

Any ideas?

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Does it happen also when fewer audio files are loaded?

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I created a brand new gig, only added the player with one file (8s long, 2.1MB aiff file), in loop mode, and I get the same issue after 1 or 2 loops. In the activity monitor of MacOS, the CPU goes from 15% when not playing to 50% when playing the first time to more than 100% after 2 loops.
The audio file is on the local drive. Everything else works well on the Mac.

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He is using GP 5 already I think.

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OK, I made an AIF File and loaded it in Streaming Audio File Player.
Activated Loop and faced no issue.
I am on Mac Intel and Sonoma 14.5

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(If you have the time and an external SSD I might be tempted to see what happens if you stream from that.)

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It could be related to a particular audio file format. Could you please post your test gigfile and the audio file you used here?

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Maybe also try with a different audio file(?).

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Here is an example gig, with simply the player and its audio file (I did not even put a button to open the player, so you need to open it from the wiring view).
Btw, I did not find how GP5 is referencing the file. The Gig’s XML is obfuscated…
gp files.zip (1.3 MB)

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Loaded the gig file, loaded the AIF file.
Played, loop is working fine, no issue at all.

I am now on my Mac M1

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I think all settings of the Streaming Audio File Player are stored in the state.

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So if you never open the UI does everything work fine?

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Doing some more tests, I’ve noted several points:

  • There may be some memory leak with the project I sent, when keeping the UI open, the memory usage grows (in MacOS monitoring tool) steadily (rates varies from 2-10 MB per 5s). But it probably does not relate to the irresponsive issue.
  • Closing the Player’s windows gives back the CPU. After reopening, it’s responsive for some loops, then again becomes irresponsive, with CPU up to 100%.
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And no CPU or memory issues when the window is closed?

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I have read about issues with GPU’s in DAWs. In one case, the person disabled his Invidia GPU and just used his CPU (integrated) for graphics. I don’t know whether that is something you might want to explore (and least for testing purposes).