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17 Feb 10, 2010 7:29 pm

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tacticalbread wrote:

I didn't consciously close the UI, but I've loaded up Live, and tried to play it without opening the UI, and it still skips. Playing one plugin uses about half my CPU (or so Live tells me). I can run pads, bass, a kick, and a snare, without it skipping, but anything else in there and it gets very sad.

Can you give me more info on your machine's specs.
also the details of your current Samplerate and Buffersize/latency

This is not an expected behaviour on any > 2Ghz machine

Also, just to make sure, you should run this:
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

and look for any red bars

Last edited by plgDavid (Feb 10, 2010 7:32 pm)

18 Feb 10, 2010 8:15 pm

RushCoil

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plgDavid wrote:

tacticalbread wrote:
I didn't consciously close the UI, but I've loaded up Live, and tried to play it without opening the UI, and it still skips. Playing one plugin uses about half my CPU (or so Live tells me). I can run pads, bass, a kick, and a snare, without it skipping, but anything else in there and it gets very sad.
Can you give me more info on your machine's specs.
also the details of your current Samplerate and Buffersize/latency
This is not an expected behaviour on any > 2Ghz machine
Also, just to make sure, you should run this:
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
and look for any red bars

Just wanted to mention that on my laptop I experienced a similar thing... integrated sound chips are pretty crappy. The solution was to download Asio4All, open up its advanced config settings, turn off all the audio functionality except "audio out," and adjust buffer size. Using my native ASIO, the laptop was running at 45ms; using Asio4All (properly configured) it is running at 8ms. Also definitely set your machine to "Best Performance" in Systems properties, and in advanced, select priority for "background services." Also disable networking (my Wi-Fi card was murdering Chipsounds).

19 Feb 10, 2010 8:50 pm

tacticalbread

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))<>((

That's probably my problem. When running that program you posted, David, I get many red bars. D: Curse my onboard sound.

20 Feb 22, 2010 3:02 am

Vytantus

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Melbourne, Australia

*cough* derris *cough* *coughing fit*

21 Feb 27, 2010 5:27 am

RushCoil

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Hey David - I love the update- very cool additions. Quick question if you are out there - I see that there is little room left on the GUI, but I keep wishing there were an option to name the channels somewhere (if there is, I must've missed it). Again, not sure where you could put it, but sometimes I open multiple sessions and I feel like I have to play a guessing game with the channels. Yes, I realize that more ambitious people can just look at the DAW but often channels are expanded, collapsed, running through hardware, etc, and it would be cool to just glance over at Chipsounds and adjust levels.

Last edited by RushCoil (Feb 27, 2010 5:32 am)