2nd Uniwire issue

[domc]

Not sure if anyone can help me.

I've spent the afternoon converting one of my projects to uniwire - loading all the instruments and trying to sync it to work from cubase. Everything seemed to go well. I have 16 instances of uniwire loaded, one for each channel. I've noticed a couple of things which are causing me problems.

1) The uniwire pluggins themselves seem to be using up quite a bit of CPU each (when the main reason for having the receptor was to run items such as Kontakt2, Trilogy, Atmosphere etc, and save on CPU)

2) When I save the song and then reload, there is a massive delay. It takes 10 minutes to load the song and most of this is spent trying to load the uniwire pluggins. [It's like it can't find them on the net connection]. And once they do all load and you open each uniwire pluggin, it says that no receptor is connected (even when there was one connected when it was saved). At this point if I independently open my receptor remote connection it loads fine (via start, programs), but if I click on the launch receptor remote button from within the uniwire pluggin, it crashes cubase(or says that there's a serious problem and to save your work).

Anyone have an idea about what's going on. I was hoping the new system would save me time/CPU but on both counts it seems to be not working quite right.

Regards, Domc

[john1954]

I don't know, but it seems like a lotta data to shove thru the network cable.

[DanTimis]

Are you on Mac or PC?

[domc]

On PC.

Took me a while to set up normal connection with the receptor but once I'd changed the Receptor to the same 'home' workgroup as my laptop - then the connection works really quickly. Receptor remote works in a flash and I can transfer a gig of data to samples in a couple of mins.

[philosorhymes]

Hi Domc, here is one issue which you probably would have missed, the manual is not very clear about this.

In the manual there is a blog saying

"IMPORTANT!: If you're using a multiple processor computer with Cubase SX then, as of this writing, UniWire works much more efficiently within Cubase if its multi processor support is turned OFF"

The fact is that if multiple processor support is on, and you attempt to use more than one istance of uniwire, cubase simply freezes. This means disabling muliple processor support is not really optional but COMPULSORY. (I don't even have multiple processors)

Once I disabled multiprocessor support in Cubase I was able to use more than one instance of uniwire. I had problems with uniwire since day one of its release and this was the problem.

I've asked MUSE to highlight this but they probably haven't done so. Let me know if this fixes it for you; perhaps we can get muse to do something about it.

Thanks
Phil.

[domc]

Thanks Phil for your thoughts.

Unfortunately that's not it as I've only got a 2.1Ghz Pentium M with single processor.

I'm sure it's to do with networking / searching for the network - I've had it happen many times before when the computer is searching for something on the network, but seems to wait until a time out or so before moving on and hence big delays are introduced, especially if it does that search multiple times.

I used to have big delays just trying to use Receptor Remote - despite what the manual says about just keeping the receptor workgroup set at Muse - I found that the big difference came when I set the Receptor workgroup to Home (in line with my other computers) and then it would find it immediately.

What I don't understand is why when Receptor remote now works instantaneously, why does uniwire not work as well?

Dan, any more thoughts?

Kind regards, Domc

[DanTimis]

Uniwire is not using Workgroups, so changing the workgroup will not affect Uniwire performance. It looks like it is some kind of networking setup issue. What is the IP and netmask of your computer and of Receptor and are you using DHCP?

[philosorhymes]

Thanks Phil for your thoughts.

Unfortunately that's not it as I've only got a 2.1Ghz Pentium M with single processor.

Domc, I have only a single processor as well, but it affected me. Please do give it a try. I was baffled to see it made a difference but it did.

[RecordingArts]

Is the UniWire hardware and plug in MacOSX multi processor capable, and is the AU plug version available yet? Thanks,
Vincent