Couple of Pentagon presets crashing my ASIO driver and ruining my speakers

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2011/10/12 15:35:48 (permalink)

Couple of Pentagon presets crashing my ASIO driver and ruining my speakers

I run Pentagon inside Sonar X1 Producer.

I'll give just 4 Examples:

Bank B, 008: "Aftertouch Lead";
Bank F, 042: " e - bass (at) ";
Bank F, 059: "mega slap bass (at);
Bank F, 063: "synth slap bass"

When I load any of these presets, the following happens:
- just pops, crackles and clicks, no other sound;
- faders in the ASIO mixer display overload and stay there even after I turn Pentagon volume down or even after i switch off oscillators!

When I move back to other presets (that work all right), more stuttering pops and crackles occur and it doesn't stop until I press the "Reset MIDI and Audio".

The said presets always cause this to happen.

Anyone encountered this? What could be the cause? Why most presets work fine and these not? I'm curious... and angry.


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    Re:Couple of Pentagon presets crashing my ASIO driver and ruining my speakers 2011/10/13 03:51:54 (permalink)
    One workaround - and one I use a LOT when I'm auditioning synth patches, is to put a limiter after the synth so that wildly varying output levels can be tamed

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    Re:Couple of Pentagon presets crashing my ASIO driver and ruining my speakers 2011/10/13 12:12:39 (permalink)
    Thank you, Jonesey, but that's not an issue of output levels.

    Certain patches crash the ASIO driver and I don't understand why... Why do the others work fine and these not?

    But Pentagon is so old, so I guess I'll move on to some newer stuff like Rapture or z3ta+...

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    - Windows 10 Pro (x64)
    - RME Fireface UC (ASIO Driver)
    - Sonar X2a Producer (x64)

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