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The version is EigenD 1.3.13-unstable

Im experiencing the same thing, EigenD seems to be overloading my CPU. While other software with the same capabilities do not. Also an acquaintance of mine on a macbook has no issue with this problem, even though it has the same specs as my pc. What's up?

Hello again,

Just to let you know we are working on this, we really want to get to the bottom of it but we're having some trouble re-producing the problem. Would you be so kind as to supply us with some more info?

When you say loops are you referring to apple loops or recordings? Is it specific to certain VST plugins? Could you let us know which plugins you're using if any.

Also bug reports are a massive help for the software team, so if you experience any problems choose 'Bug Report' from the File menu.

Thanks very much for your help,

Dave

This is the same problem that I have been having. I still have the video of the problem, but Its too large to email.

If you want to reproduce some of the bugs just start the drum and record Alchemy with piano and something else, just 2-4 bars, you'll hear scratches in the sound (more notes=more noise).

I uploaded a video on youtube to make it clear. The main problem is that the crash and the noise happen at random time and get more evident as the cpu is loaded. This not means that with a bass+piano+drum the thing is stable!
I made several tries on 2 notebooks and 3 SO (xp sp3, Vista 32, win7 64) and with all the stable and unstable versions of EigenD, the situation is the same, no matter what audio card I use or if I give maximum or minimum priority to EigenD, maximum or minimum latency.
If I compare the cpu load of Mac and Win (of the same notebook just after the installation) it's completely different. Even when the cpu is overloaded the osx version doesn't crash. I've never been able to play/record for more than 7-8 minutes with no crashes, with any eigenD-instrument.

In the description of the video you ca read all I tried.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13y3Ntp0i4#t=10s

If you have a stable hardware/software windows configuration to sugget please tell us. If you cannot reproduce the bugs it means that you're able to play with no problems for minutes with a clean sound.

Any news about any next working release? Did you abandon windows users with their bugs? The new experimental and the new driver did not solve any bug

Just as a point of reference, it's not all bad-news for us Windows-bunnies...I'm running 1.3.22 testing and it's never crashed whilst I've been looping, or even playing actually. And I've had loops running on 6 or 7 instruments at a time with heavy fx and the like. It's very stable for me. Having said that, I'm running it on a pretty good machine and on my slower, older laptop, the same software is a bit of a crock. YMMV, clearly.

I'm not trying to denigrate everyone's issues. I've been running Eigen D on Windows since the first public beta and I've had my fair share of instability. It's just been my experience that Eigenlabs may move slower than we'd like, but when they do it, they do it right.

Well, I think my audio is rather clean. Because of this thread, I've just uploaded a youtube vid as an example, (first ever, actually), I think the distortion towards the end is a product of the distortion model I linked to the breath controller. There may also be one or two clicks in there somewhere, but I haven't been bothered by them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVZ-qKFiDiM

I'll dig out my system specifications and post them here if you're still interested after seeing the video...

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Graphics Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Gaming graphics 1760 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 285GB Free (461GB Total)

(I've got a base score of 5.2 on their 'Windows Experience Index', but processor and RAM are 6.9 and 7.6 respectively). I'm running x64.

I use the onboard sound, a Line 6 UX2 (USB), and an old SB Audigy, running open source drivers. The key element is ASIO4ALL, a tiny little program which allows even the crappiest sound cards to use ASIO and lets you pick the sample buffer, as well as letting me cherry-pick where I want my inputs and outputs to go. For instance, I've got EigenD outputting via the onboard card, one output goes to monitors, the SPDIF to an input of the SB Audigy (hooked up to Audition). The UX2 then carries another feed out from Audition for monitoring. All I really want is for Eigenlabs to set the 'harp up as a ReWire slave, to give me more flexibility.

As should be heard above, the whole thing works pretty well, as for the playing, well I may have had the 'harp a long time but It's only been a couple of weeks since I've gotten down to business with it, huge fun though!

Hi jptreen

Rewire is unfortuantely a closed and propritary protocol. It's licence is currently cost free to devlopers, but incompatible with the GPL. We consider a propietary solution to this particular problem to inappropriate on a number of levels, and we have no plans to support it.

John