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Can anybody work out the equation?

Posted by Simon Godden on February 2, 2011 at 1:16pm in Music Technology
I have finally installed EWQLSO Gold into my computer. I have used it as a plug-in on Cubase 5 Essential and it works. However, it soon stutters and distorts after 3 or 4 instruments are loaded up. I have checked the Task Manager and this is what I've found. 

When playing, it is using under 2 gigs of RAM, I have 3 (although I will have to get more eventually). 

When playing, my CPU level is at around 15 percent. 

On the soundcard (M-Audio 2496), the sample rate is 44100 Hz 
ASIO/WDM Buffer size is set to 256 
Input Latency is 6.780ms 
Output Latency is 6.440ms 

That is really all the information that I can give you. If anybody recognises that the settings on my soundcard are incorrect, I'd be grateful to know about it. 

Also, all my VST samples are streamed from an external HD (I've decided that a new SSD internal HD may be a good investment). 


So, is there anything I can do now to improve the performance quality of EWQLSO?
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  • James Semple February 2, 2011 at 5:17pm

    I recommend checking that you're definitely using the hardware ASIO driver within Cubase.

     

    If you are then try increasing the latency to 512.

  • David W. Hamilton February 28, 2011 at 12:45am

    Hi Simon,

    I'm assuming by instruments you mean tracks... I started out loading all of my instruments and working with them at the same time, and ran into some slightly similar problems.  The way I dealt with it was by doing each track separately.  I do all of my tweaking there, and then render the resulting instrument track into an .mp3 file.  Once I get all of the instruments/tracks/ rendered individually like that, I import all of the .mp3's and do my mixing, etc.  I stopped running into the difficulties once I did that.  Now I regularly work with over 40 tracks on a computer that's got only 4GB of RAM.

     

    Hope that helps!

  • Simon Godden February 28, 2011 at 1:08am

    I was actually thinking of doing that, but I like to compose on score editor of the sequencer, rather than in Finale or Notion etc.  Anyway, I think I've just about got it sussed now, and the amount of RAM wasn't the issue.  I just upgraded up to 64 bit and apart from a couple of hitches, it runs fine now.

     

    Mind you a few professional mock-up artists do it that way.

  • David W. Hamilton February 28, 2011 at 1:45am

    Awesome you got it taken care of!

  • Simon Godden March 1, 2011 at 5:42pm

    Not quite awesome...lol.   But I'm getting there (it bloody took me long enough).  And thanks for the suggestion.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Simon

  • lelangir March 2, 2011 at 1:14am
    This is a related question: my Nvidia GeForce 2200 kernel driver is causing 17ms latency in windows 7 64 bit. This is after I've jigged with the performance and power settings. I've updated the drivers and firmware but nothing seems to work; I can't find a solution on the internet either. Do you guys recommend a graphics card for music production? The tower I'm building will be used for music only...no games or movies or anything.
  • lelangir March 2, 2011 at 4:51am
    sorry it's a GT 220
  • Simon Godden March 2, 2011 at 11:54am
    I've never heard of a graphics card causing latency problems. What soundcard are you using? Is it ASIO?
  • lelangir March 10, 2011 at 7:44pm
    I have an m-audio fast track and i'm using ASIO4all
  • Simon Godden March 10, 2011 at 8:11pm
    Hello Mate,  not really the subject of my discussion but I'll try and help.  I know absolutely nothing about graphics cards (I don't even know that much about sound cards, to tell you the truth).  However, I do know the concept of 'latency', and I also know that Nvidia is a very good company when it comes to graphics cards.  Also, I can imagine that it would need to be a hell of a lot more powerful than what musicians use.  It might be worth looking into the specs on your computer and see if it is powerful enough to run a faster card, and if so, get one.

    lelangir said:
    This is a related question: my Nvidia GeForce 2200 kernel driver is causing 17ms latency in windows 7 64 bit. This is after I've jigged with the performance and power settings. I've updated the drivers and firmware but nothing seems to work; I can't find a solution on the internet either. Do you guys recommend a graphics card for music production? The tower I'm building will be used for music only...no games or movies or anything.
    Can anybody work out the equation?
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