Backup with Fractal Bot takes 34 minutes!?!

AndyKay

AndyKay

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I have bought the AX8 (very cool!) and I'm editing some sounds right now.
There is one thing, which is really strange (and annoying) to me:

I used Fractal Bot to backup the complete Ax8 and it last about 34 minutes!
For ca. 12.2 MB over USB? Normally, this should be much faster...?

Details:
(see also: http://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/please-speed-up-fractal-bot.120033/)

I did some tests in the last few days....

In each test, I have chosen "backup all" in Fractal Bot.
I used absolutely the same USB-cable, USB-port, etc.
I only exchanged Ax8 <-> Axe Fx II

Axe Fx II:
4 minutes 15 seconds (for ca. 4.4 MB of data)

Ax8:
34 minutes!!! (for ca. 12.2 MB of data)

This is annoying. Does anybody have the same experience?
 
Same here. Just learned that the AX8 is only USB 1.1:eek:. Interestingly FW-Update is much faster...
 
This not really a problem of USB 1.1 which allows for up to 12Mbit/s in full speed mode. Even if you can only utilize about 50% of the raw speed the transfer could be a matter of a few seconds. This means the bottleneck is the processor and the software driving the transfer.
 
I think the reason for the slow data transfer is the underlying MIDI protocol.
MIDI data is transferred with 32kbit/sec, which is roughly 7MB in 30 minutes.
 
RB_Guitar said:
I think the reason for the slow data transfer is the underlying MIDI protocol.
MIDI data is transferred with 32kbit/sec, which is roughly 7MB in 30 minutes.
Click to expand...

So it can't be the reason for the long transfer time or else it would take even longer (7MB in 30 minutes = 12.2 MB in about 52 minutes).
 
Fractal probably knew that you would spend no time with your family after purchasing the AX-8, so as a safety measure the back up process is slowed to make you leave the AX-8 and take a break while it does its thing since you can not play it while it backs up.
 
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