I searched for a similar thread, but I’m somewhat new to the forums so forgive me if this is an old question.
When I have the disk browser opened in Renoise, and then navigate to Renoise from some other window, (e.g. internet back to Renoise),
there is a consistent delay that ranges from a few seconds to over a minute before Renoise will respond.
I’m using 2.1, and I’m on an older computer, so this issue could be caused by either of those factors,
but if anyone knows of a way to reduce or eliminate this problem within Renoise, I’d appreciate your help.
Does anyone remember Impulse Tracker’s disk browser? It immediately showed you a list of files and then started analyzing the files while you were browsing it, and updated it accordingly. It was a fast way of accessing the information. Maybe Renoise could use a similar method in the future?
Impulse tracker also stored folder data into cache files (i believe with the extension .ITS) which made it that fast.
Yes that might be an idea, cache stuff and only check file-stamps of current stuff and update those files that have been modified or deleted.
Yeah, that is true with the cache files. Personally I am not fond of program spreading its own cache-files into sample directories (Ableton Live does that as well), so I would prefer a “scanning while browsing”-model with no or optional caching of content. Something for Renoise 2.6 perhaps.
Jonas: To top it off, Impulse Tracker was written in assembler too. Impulse Tracker was a fantastic tracker for its time, but I see Renoise as the tracker of 21th century.
In 1998 he did one more update (IT 2.15) which included the IPX networking module (or was that 2.14?) to collaborate across LAN. Anyway 2.15 is the last update i have in my archive.
