Specifications

converter 1.5

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2000 - 2005 urr Sound Technologies Inc.

using converter

I get the message “warning – CPU LOAD HIGH” – what should I do?

This message means that the computer has a very high task load and while no errors should be caused

as a result, response times may be affected. Often when this error is displayed, converter’s midi output

data rate is very close to or exceeds the bandwidth of the midi interface specification, which will affect

the responsiveness of timing and such things. Either use the audio midi data reduction settings to

reduce the amount of audio to midi conversion data (if using audio in continuous controller mode), turn

off the gameport input, or otherwise reduce the amount of midi data and/or processing being

performed by converter.

This situation should normally only occur under aggressive processing loads, fully utilizing most or all of

converter’s numerous conversion sources on slower computers. Occasionally it will appear on slower

machines if an external device suddenly transmits a large peak of data (for instance, a huge series of

midi messages as part of a midi panic routine) – if this is the case, just ignore the message.

I get the message “filters disabled” when I try to enable one or more of the filter channels!

This message is displayed when the particular computer running converter is too slow to handle the

computing load required to provide one or more of the filters. The only way around this is to use a faster

computer, preferably a Pentium 100MHz or greater.

I get the message “clock engine off” when I try to start converter’s midi clock generator!

This message is displayed when converter’s clock engine has been disabled in the real-time engine

settings menu ( [Alt] – [E] ). To enable the clock engine subsystem of converter, go to the real-time

engine settings menu, select the “midi clock generator” parameter, and press the [page up] key.

I got the error message “clock engine compatibility issue” – what should I do?

Nothing. This message is simply to let you know that the default clock engine of converter doesn’t

perform reliably with that particular computer, and converter has set itself to use an alternative clock

engine which is more compatible for computers which have trouble with the original default engine. It

has also updated hardware.cfg so you will never see this message again – converter will always use the

alternative engine from now on. The only possibility is that in rare cases for certain machines, this

alternative clock engine can negatively affect overall system performance, or in other words, slow things

down. If this alternate clock engine works fine, then this is nothing to be concerned about. If

performance now suffers with the new engine, simply disable the engine in converter’s real-time engine

settings menu unless it is needed for a particular application.