Songbook loading time differences

[hmb1963]

Hi together,

at the moment my personal songbook contains about 100 entries, 50% pointing at styles, 50% pointing at midis.
I just wondering now about the different loading times when choosing an entry. It seems that the latest stored entries take more time to be loaded than the prior ones.
I accept this if the the midis have different sizes but the phenomenon can also be noticed between entries using styles from the memory and not from the Direct HD.
I normally access using the songbook entry number.
Does anybody has an explanation for this?

Rgds,
Martin

[Rob Sherratt]

Hi Martin,

I don't think the time delay has anything to do with the songbook itself, but more to do with the load times of what you are using the songbook entry to load from disk into memory.

For example a factory songbook entry indexes a style and a performance which are ready to use in the factory ROM, so the load time is negligible and the response appears to be instantaneous.

But you can create user entries like yours into the songbook which index a MIDI file or an MP3 file. Now these files have to be retrieved from disk, and loaded into either the MP3 player RAM or the sequencer RAM before they can be used. It is that operation that takes several seconds, the duration proprtional to the file size you are loading.

Hope this explanation helps you.

Best regards,
Rob

[galettouille]

Mmmhhh.
One thing is sure : the songbook takes more more time than the "direct" way to recall a style or a midifile. Specially when it has to switch between style and song mode.

[karmathanever]

Just a small point - are you using OS 3.01? Songbook processing was changed and improved in this version.

Pete

[galettouille]

Hello!
No.
I use OS 3.00. I don't want to install 3.01 because of the behavior in var begining.