Guitarhacker


keep us posted on the progress you make with support on this. 

Sure will. I just sent the ticket a few minutes ago.


BTW, I tried your suggestion on creating an audio track (TTS) and linking the MIDI track to it. 
With just this one track linked I get heavy latency ( MME 32 bits, at any latency adjustment ) to the point that the track is shifted in time and finally doesn't play anymore (it still shows as playing in the meters). This doesn't happen when I use Cakewalk TTS and import the MIDI file. That song has 5 MIDI tracks and plays beautifully with TTS as Synth in normal play. I love the sounds, by the way.
Furthermore, I have problems loading Asio4All. It tells me that it's in use by another program but I only have Music Creator 6 opened. I also have Mixcraft 6 that uses Asio4All but it is closed when I use MC6 so it should have unloaded from it. Even if I unplug Asio from Mixcraft, it still tells me that it's in use.. By what? With 6GB DDR3 Ram on Intel i7 870, in Win 7 64 bits, I should have no problem playing a single synth and five MIDI tracks, even with my factory sound card (Realtek HD).


What am I doing wrong here?


Thanks for any help
GintheClassic

GintheClassic

Guitarhacker


keep us posted on the progress you make with support on this. 

Sure will. I just sent the ticket a few minutes ago.


BTW, I tried your suggestion on creating an audio track (TTS) and linking the MIDI track to it. 
With just this one track linked I get heavy latency ( MME 32 bits, at any latency adjustment ) to the point that the track is shifted in time and finally doesn't play anymore (it still shows as playing in the meters). This doesn't happen when I use Cakewalk TTS and import the MIDI file. That song has 5 MIDI tracks and plays beautifully with TTS as Synth in normal play. I love the sounds, by the way.
Furthermore, I have problems loading Asio4All. It tells me that it's in use by another program but I only have Music Creator 6 opened. I also have Mixcraft 6 that uses Asio4All but it is closed when I use MC6 so it should have unloaded from it. Even if I unplug Asio from Mixcraft, it still tells me that it's in use.. By what? With 6GB DDR3 Ram on Intel i7 870, in Win 7 64 bits, I should have no problem playing a single synth and five MIDI tracks, even with my factory sound card (Realtek HD).


What am I doing wrong here?


Thanks for any help
GintheClassic

you are trying to use the factory card to play soft synths.  No matter what mode (driver) you use, or if you use ASIO4ALL successfully, with a factory card you will have some sort of audible latency. It can and does very from just being a minor issue  to impossible to work with it....


Why it works with the downloaded tracks but not the others ?  IDK.   


I will say this.... the factory cards are not designed to work with the massive data demands we put on them. Once you purchase an after market card...we call them musical interfaces, you will see a huge difference. I can run multiple "heavy synths" like Kontakt and East West as well as multiple Sound Centers and they all run in perfect sync and with latency so low that it is not perceivable to the ear.


That is the reason almost everyone here, who is serious about home recording has a good music interface. The factory cards and ASIO4ALL patches simply do not do the job like a professional ASIO based USB music interface will do it. 

Thank you deeply for this precision.

It just confirmed that I cannot use MC6 as my DAW until I buy new sound gear. I will have to stick to my other DAW since I don't have the budget at the moment to use MC6. Too bad!  It looked promising...


I'll be back when I do!

Take care everyone!
GintheClassic

check my websjiite for soundcard recommendations.

Concerning your problem about errors when trying to replace a soft synth.

If I understood your description (you used the word "replace") correctly, you are trying to launch a VSTi on the same track that s already running a VSTi, or ....??

Have you tried inserting a fresh instance of a soft synth and then dragging the MIDI-clip to that track?