Any of you guys who use Superior Drummer with Sonar happen to know (or can check) if it is normal for the Superior mixer meters to take many seconds to settle down after stopping playback?   I just finished building a new DAW and noticed the Superior mixer meters "bounce" their way down to zero over the course of 5 seconds or so (kind of like a bouncing ball effect) after playback stops.  This caught my eye because I just finished chasing a strange audio driver/OS issue that now has me wondering if I truly fixed things or rather if the lagging Superior meters are maybe another indicator of issues still lurking...

Thanks,
 
    Sonic

Hi. Which Audio Interface, Driver mode, SONAR and Windows version?
All the best.

RME Fireface400, RME WDM/KS Drivers, Sonar 5PE and Windows XP Pro SP3.  Fresh DAW build.
 
The way the Superior mixer meters are visually behaving after playback stops is almost like there is a delay/echo tail on them as they "bounce" down to nothing.   This is my first install of Superior 2 so I'm wondering if this is simply normal, or rather maybe I still have an audio/driver gremlin going on.....

Download and install the latest ASIO drivers from RME.
They have superb ASIO drivers.
I'm almost certain that this is driver related.

I haven't had problems with the RME WDM drivers ever, 10+ years so I suspect that's not the issue.  There's a reason I needed to go with the WDM drivers, it evades me at the moment but definitely a good reason. ASIO wouldn't work in the system as I recall, may have prevented something else from working I can't remember rat the moment.   For now I'm just wanting to see if anybody else has noticed the Superior Drummer mixer meters behaving the way I describe, or maybe can think of a reason they would act that way - attributed to a configuration setting or something?
 
Sonic

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No One makes better ASIO) drivers than RME, IMO.
If you choose to remain on WDM/KS, that's your call.

Help me understand..... why would I change over to ASIO if WDM have been working fine for so long?  What are the advantages or additional features?  Or rather is there some drawback/risk to using WDM over ASIO that I'm maybe not aware of?

SonicExplorer
Help me understand..... why would I change over to ASIO if WDM have been working fine for so long?  What are the advantages or additional features?  Or rather is there some drawback/risk to using WDM over ASIO that I'm maybe not aware of?

What will it hurt to try it?

For me WDM drivers have much higher latency than ASIO.  Sometimes when my DAW accidentally switches over to any other driver type, like WDM, I immediately notice latency when I press down on a key.  At first I couldn't figure out why.  But now I know the first thing to check is the drivers setup.  As soon as I switch back to ASIO....no more latency.