Increasing Performance

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Increasing Performance via Software

It can happen that available resources run dry when using many extra features such as VST plugins and track effects. Before you run to the store to buy a sparkling new quad core processor and sixteen terabyte of working memory, a number of steps can be taken to decrease the power consumption and increase the available performance of MadTracker.

1: Reduce the playback quality by removing for instance Hi-Q filters and setting the interpolation to Linear or No interpolation in the config.

2: Check through the song to see if there maybe is something you can optimize, for instance by routing several channels to the same fx and disabling all fx you don't need. At this point you can also remove all channels that are empty (don't know how much empty channels influence, but it can't hurt to remove them).

3: Go to the windows task manager and kill all processes you don't need at that moment (such as virus software and other programs running in the background that aren't essential for the functioning of Windows or MadTracker).

4: In Task manager, try setting MT2's "priority" to "High" - NOT real time. Select "processes", and right click on "MT2.exe", choose "High". You can just ignore the warning "re: system instability".

5: Check how many reverbs you use. these consume a lot of CPU power.

6: Start recording some of the sounds made by VST plugins. This can be done by simply muting all other channels except for the one containing the synth you want sampled and then exporting a suitable length of the track using the wave export. You can then reload the new sample into MadTracker and remove/disable the VST. There is also a VST plugin that does a similar task. With FX Freeze you can freeze any processor heavy instrument or FX and free up some CPU power, so that you can use the released horsepower for more FX or increase the effective polyphony of your studio.

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