Two questions. 1. Trying the TH2 guitar fx for the 1st time. There's a slight delay when playing guitar. Solutions? Tried a few things, haven't solved the problem yet.
2. After adding audio fx to a track, when I minimize x2 or open up x2 from the start, all the fx's that I've used open up and I have to minimize each, one at a time. Not a big problem but is there a way of preventing this from happening each time?

Hi there

The slight delay will simply be a latency thing. What have you tried? What is your audio device? Which driver mode are you using? What latency time is being reported in Preferences? Details of your DAW spec would be nice.

Regarding the other behaviour... At first I thought, "that sounds odd," but then I realised that I personally do not minimise my synth/effect properties window, I actually close it once I have finished tweaking. I have just tried simply minimising a window instead and then closed the project. When I re-open the project, the synth/effect property window appears maximised.

I would suggest, unless anyone else disagrees, that this is normal behaviour and there is no other way of keeping them minimised.

What you could do, however, if you prefer to keep the synth/effect property windows open, is dock them in the multidock. Not all of them will dock, but some of them will, and that way you just select the appropriate multidock tab when you need to play with the synth/effect settings.

Thanks Syn for your reply. I use a Cakewalk UA-25. The computer is new, I7 processor,etc. The driver mode is set to WASAPI. My previous X1 setup was ASIO. Not sure what you mean by what latency time in preferences, but the sampling time is 44100. The delay I hear is very slight but enough to be annoying.

Latency is the cause of the delay that you are experiencing. You might want to go back to using the ASIO driver mode and adjust the ASIO buffer size in the software supplied for your interface. A smaller buffer produces less delay. Too small a buffer will call the audio to be noisy or dropout completely.

Go to your Preferences pull down menu and into audio drivers.  Click on the ASIO button and adjust your buffers as low as you can for tracking.  This will lower you latency.  I generally record guitar and instrument tracks that require low latency early in a song, before adding a lot of FX in at the mixing stage.  When you go back to mixing the entire song with all of the FX's, you are going to want to increase your buffers considerably to get smooth play back.

Thanks Mike, Scook, and Syn. After changing to the ASIO driver mode, that solved my problem. I've used the original WASAPI mode prior to this (which was the default when I started with x2) and there wasn't any problem until I tried the TH2, but now with the change to ASIO it seems ok with no delay when playing guitar. Again, thanks for the advice...