Hi, I’m getting audio clicks more frequently at the moment on my 201.
I tried removing what I understand are the “heavier” patches for CPU / RAM, and also removed all the saved patterns I had. This helped a lot but sometimes clicks still appear (eg with the Synth Drums patch - great patch I just rediscovered).
I wondered if there are any other ways to maximise CPU / RAM capacity, and how to know what is likely to use a lot of that capacity, eg. Is it patches with larger filesizes to be careful of… and is there a sortof maximum that the system can comfortably hold?
My technical knowledge is pretty sketchy so apols if these questions are rather basic, and I realise I might’ve missed something obvious here. Cheers!
I’m preparing to put a larger SD card into my 5 moons and it occurred to me to ask if doing the same with 201 would help ease CPU/RAM pressure. I’m guessing that this wouldn’t make a difference for 201 but thought i would ask in case anyone knows…
I don’t think having a larger SD card will help with the 201. Happy to be wrong. One thing that can help is when mounted to a computer, be sure to empty any trash on the card. If you connect via Files with an IPad/iPhone, the option to empty trash isn’t available.
It’s hard to know exactly what is causing these issues without any concrete performance metrics such as CPU utlisation, memory utilisation, swap file utilisation, etc.
Putting in a larger SD card will not directly affect CPU load in any direction. However, if you are experiencing high iowait times, or excessive paging to disk, or excessive use of the swap file, it is possible you could achieve better performance. I don’t know if any of those are the case. If the SD card is old it may have a lot of sectors that the OS has marked as bad which could cause slower (but still complete) reads.
Again, there is no evidence given for any of the above, I’d have to have some baseline performance data to actually look for a direct cause, but my point is, a new SD card can’t hurt.