Latency - even now....

Hi guys. Can't believe I'm having a latency issue. But I am. I really didn't think I would, given that I've upgraded my set up considerably. But I'm wondering if it's a setting somewhere which needs tweaking. Basically, My first real project in Sonar X2 is taking shape - all going fine but then suddenly, without warning, there's a slight latency happening. There are no glitches or drop outs happening. Soundcard Info: 44100/384 samples (has worked fine until now) Project has 7 synths in the rack. It's been so long since I dealt with latency - I can't remember what other settings you'd need to know...please ask. Any ideas? It's not a huge latency - just enough to throw me off the flow. But I never experienced latency on my old, slower set up even with more synths in the project and the same sample rate on the soundcard. Cheers Dave

Potentially one of the plugins you have is using either look-ahead processing or is otherwise CPU intensive.

You can try hitting 'E' on your keyboard to disable that project's plugins to see if that works, then if so you can look at which one or ones are causing this to happen.

Please list the plugins this project is using.

Bob Bone

Hitting 'E' Makes the problem disappear. DOH! I think I see the problem. I put LP-64 Multiband followed by Boost 11 on the Master - and then continued to play around with the track - with the whole signal going through them. When I disable them, the problem disappears. HOWEVER - I thought my new machine would be capable of handling that kind of punishment? ASIO drivers, up-to-date drivers installed from M-Audio website. My project is a lot smaller than most projects I had on my older set up on Home Studio 7XL - with less tracks and less processing. Didn't have latency problem before...

Yay!

Bob Bone

Daylaa


very useful feedback, thanks everyone.

Even my 'Yay' was useful?  (posted it to boost thread count.  Have to catch Bapu)


This forum is full of helpful folks.  I have learned countless things from reading through threads, and do my best go give back for precisely that reason.


Good luck with it all, 


Bob Bone

Bob - Lol! I feel so... used. Dave - thanks - I've only got M Audio checked.

Yes a couple weeks back. not been any more have there?

You could also swap out the performance killing plugins during tracking with less resource-demanding ones, then for post-tracking use the ones meant for use post-tracking.

That way, you can still have effects in place during tracking, rather than just bypassing them all.

Bob Bone