Windows: Audio device sometimes "hangs" and other irritating things

Help, Support & Bugs
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After some time in background, when I alt+tab back to Renoise and hit play or undo, it hangs for some time and does nothing. If then I click this butoons again, it hangs again. Only way is to restart renoise.

It was like this since spring, when I first went to new version. I thought it may be connected to screen resolution or tools, but when I cleared “scripts” directory, it still hangs
I’m on win 10.

Can I also grump here about other irritating behavior of Renoise? It doesn’t save hotkeys. I have english/russian langs and I saw topics regarding the problem dating 2014. I don’t remember having this problem in 2014 but now I do and advices of those topics don’t help.

Also, small but irritating. I write code in Microsoft Visual Studio. Usually when I alt+tab from any other app back to VS, cursor is placed in code where it was before. But when I alt-tab from renoise (if it is in full screen mode) cursor is focused on upper menu

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Does it matter whether or not you have the diskop open in renoise when you bring it to the forefront? Does having it closed negate the sluggishness?

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I diddn’t use renoise browser if it’s what you mean by diskop

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Yeah i meant the diskbrowser. Not sure it still does this, but in the past I think it rescanned stuff when having Renoise brought to the foreground, resulted in a delay. Especially on nested folders with a lot of files.

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Interesting. I am using Renoise 3.2.1 on Win 10 Pro and have many custom hotkeys. I’ve had no trouble saving/loading them.

Nor do I have any trouble with alt-tab. How long do you keep it in the background before alt-tabbing back?

How much memory do you have? Wondering if Windows is unloading from RAM when a program has been idle for a while.

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there are posts reporting same problem. Some state that problem occurs when os has language other than english

I run as admin, set en lang as default, different input to each app.
Now, I loaded previously saved keybindings, ctrl-z surprisingly works ok as undo, regardless of chosen layout, but ctrl-x doesn’t, although it’s there

proof
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Sometimes for hours. It seems that when folder “my tools” is not empty, hanging appears sooner.

32Gb. Well, maybe there is something wrong with my ram. I usually have 3 open internet browsers. One of them has 100+ open tabs. Sometimes they hang too.
By the way here is logLog.txt (2.6 MB)

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According to the log, your audio device sometimes “hangs” - hard to say why this happens. Some device have problems resuming from sleep mode. Others may conflict with other running applications. Which device is this? If possible try selecting a different one or try using ASIO drivers or ASIO4All.

If this happens again it also should be possible to fix this by reinitializing the device in Renoise’s Audio preferences.