actually, i'm starting to think the thing with bandstand is that it's purely sample based so it's stuttering out badly when it's not able to find a sample that matches the note.

....meaning i'm driving it too hard.

which reduces to that it sucks. i mean, it needs to be able to do at least what my soundcard from 1997 can do.

and don't tell me i ought to have a quadcore with 40 gb of ram to emulate my soundcard from 1997. that's ridiculous.

i think the soundcard is 64 mb of ram. i dunno why they don't just build something that sits in ram.

but the drums sound fine, which is what i'm using it for, so i'll stop complaining.