Start up times

[deps]

I've heard lots said about varying hosts taking longer to start than others, ie: Sonar allegedly taking a few seconds whilst Cubase can allegedly take a minute or two depending on the amount of vst's registered.

My question is, why is this a problem?

ta, deps

[kp]

Only if one that takes ages to start up crashes a lot!

[crazed one]

That's so weird that I was posting in another thread about this and didn't post because I didn't want to go off topic.

I wanted to know the same thing. I don't really care a whole lot that cubase takes 4-6 seconds to scan for 60 or 70 plug ins. Even when I had a complete shitload of 150 or so it didn't bother me with 12 second load times.

I've only had to restart cubase about 2 or 3 times because of a glitch. So I guess I'm lucky?

[chagzuki]

They're all quick enough, aren't they?

eXT doesn't do the normal scan, so opens instantly.

Tracktion's scanning can take a long time, but it can be switched off, so it also opens quickly.

Orion is instant.

Podium is ultra-fast.

[mauseoleum]

aodix is speedy gonzalez.

[flametop]

Live 3 used to be a problem for me. I have a lot of VSTi installed and it has to check them even though it could not support them. It used to take about 3 mins to load a blank project Live 4 is much better though.

[furukama]

eXT doesn't do the normal scan, so opens instantly.

That's true, but if you right-click to insert a VST-plugin for the first time and if you have a lot of plugins, it can take a few seconds to build the list to select from .

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[DevonB]

I've heard lots said about varying hosts taking longer to start than others, ie: Sonar allegedly taking a few seconds whilst Cubase can allegedly take a minute or two depending on the amount of vst's registered.

My question is, why is this a problem?

ta, deps

Because this is a forum and people HAVE to bitch about something, right?

Devon