Topic: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

Someone mentioned that this can be done. What are the steps?

Pianoteq 6 Std, Bluthner, Model B, Grotian, YC5, Hohner, Kremsegg #1, Electric Pianos. Roland FP-90, Windows 10 quad core, Xenyx Q802USB, Yamaha HS8 monitors, Audio Technica
ATH-M50x headphones.

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

Right click the process in Task Manager, options are all there.

Hard work and guts!

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

EvilDragon wrote:

Right click the process in Task Manager, options are all there.

Windows 10: When I right click, I see these options:

* Expand
* End task
* Resource values
* Create dump file
* Go to details
* Open file location
* Search online
* Properties

What do I click on next?

Pianoteq 6 Std, Bluthner, Model B, Grotian, YC5, Hohner, Kremsegg #1, Electric Pianos. Roland FP-90, Windows 10 quad core, Xenyx Q802USB, Yamaha HS8 monitors, Audio Technica
ATH-M50x headphones.

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

https://youtu.be/niNc4Xr46xk

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

Thanks much! So the action can be performed under the Details tab. Excellent.

Pianoteq 6 Std, Bluthner, Model B, Grotian, YC5, Hohner, Kremsegg #1, Electric Pianos. Roland FP-90, Windows 10 quad core, Xenyx Q802USB, Yamaha HS8 monitors, Audio Technica
ATH-M50x headphones.

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

Is there a way to make the change permanent?

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/40...ndows.html

Hard work and guts!

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

@EvilDragon

Cool, thank you! Somehow I can't set this to Realtime priority, it automatically sets to High although all other variants work.

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

I have found this handy tool to be a very neat way of setting process priorities permanently in Windows 10 (and previous Windows versions).

http://systemexplorer.net/

It is similar in operation to Task Manager (ie. find the Pianoteq.exe program in the Processes tab, right click, select Process Priority, choose your priority level and then tick the Permanent option to fix it).
Easy as that!

System Explorer can easily be accessed from the system tray with very little overhead on performance and seems to offer improved functionality over the standard Windows Task Manager.

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

Still a great recommendation! I've had a significant improvement running Pianoteq with "High Priority" on a decent desktop computer with a decent ASIO soundcard at 2ms buffer. In my copy of Windows 10 (though it may be different on your machine), based on the link shared by EvilDragon above, this involves creating a shortcut with Location/Target of


C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "Pianoteq 8" /High "C:\Program Files\Modartt\Pianoteq 8\Pianoteq 8.exe"


I pinned it to my start menu. "High"ly recommended   Of course, I am slightly concerned that I may be flying to close to the sun. So far, though, it has worked well without signs of any issue for several days, several hours at a time. As far as I can tell, it doesn't maxed out my CPU cycles or overheated my soundcard, and glitching sound such as pops and static are reduced.

Last edited by bani223 (03-05-2023 02:02)
MOTU M2 using native ASIO driver, Windows 11, weird tweaks needed to make it work, but seems fine now.
I have posted several times about tweaking Pianoteq

Re: Prioritizing Pianoteq with Windows Task Manager

Check something like process lasso.