I just committed some changes to the GUI code (and fixes to other modules).
basically I added the feature that the GUI will open early and keep a
lot of audio files openned. for example, as soos as something gets into
the scratchpad, it is fully acquired, thus this overhead will not come
about when one presses the play button.
in essence, the storage modules is not accessible from the GLiveSupport
object any longer, so as to make sure that everything uses this cache.
I would urge Ferenc to take a look at the changes, to make sure all
things that don't have automated tests work as expected.