[ddots-l] Re: having issues with the latency hearing popping sound in the background

  • From: D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:05:59 -0400

Hey, glad to hear things are improving! When I asked about the chipset
however, I was speaking of the computer's motherboard chipset. Though
firewire chipset is also important if you're using a firewire interface.
You could probably get the motherboard chipset from looking up the model
specs, but remember some systems are customized a bit differently, though if
you bought this off the shelf it should be the same major components,
including the motherboard.

For firewire chipsets, if you have an audio interface that uses firewire,
best bet is to look at what chipsets the manufacturer does and does not
recommend. Texas instruments is for the most part the universal choice, but
some from Via work as well, and from what I've heard, some people who got
crappy performance with texas instruments chipsets had great success with
Via chipsets. Furthermore, there might be a specific chipset from either
company that the interface manufacturer recommends, so do some research. But
in general, unless you bought a laptop that was prepared for audio, if you
don't optimize that one for audio work (and sometimes even if you do), you
just won't get the full performance. This all depends of course on what
you're planning to do in terms of audio work; if you just want to play a few
soft synths, you might be ok. If you want to run synths, realtime effects
and other plugIns all at once, you will most likely run into problems!

HTH, D!J!X!

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Efren Chavez
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:38 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: having issues with the latency hearing popping sound
in the background

Hey everyone.

I did manage to change  it to the asio drivers for my sound card and it is
doing a lot better. I had a couple drop outs with the first two midi tracks
but other than that it was good. Latency issue and popping noise is
resolved, but I thing you guys are right my system isn't keeping up. I
loaded the catch me if you can sample and it didn't drop out like it was
yesterday. Asfor my chipset I can i find out what i have. Can i just google
it with my lap top model numberAlso anyone know a good chipset? Chris had
mention a texas instrument chipset. Are they expensive? I found an article
that stated that a good chipset would be the T1394. don't know what that
means.

Also I haven't done a big project involving multiple synth inserts like
demention pro. . If i am having issues now, will they only be worse? I'll
probabley test it out next week because i am prety busy now.

sorry for the extremely long message
Thanks

On 10/16/11, D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While asio for all does provide some solution, if you have a decent 
> audio interface, your interface should provide native asio drivers. 
> Good driver support that deal directly with the interface is usually the
best way to go.
> Go to sonar's options>Audio, in the advanced tab, first make sure that 
> th profile (interface) you are dealing with is the one for your 
> interface, then go to driver type and select asio (if it's available). 
> Then press apply and then ok. Try restarting sonar and then take it 
> for a spin and see. Note that the restarting sonar is not a required 
> thing for sonar 8.x, but I always do it just because :) But Rui is 
> right, your system needs to be optimized for working with audio 
> applications, and with laptops problems are even more than on a 
> desktop, due to certain incompatibilities, and because a laptop for 
> the most part will just not give you the same power as a desktop, 
> unless you go to the upper upper end.
>
> HTH, D!J!X!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rui Vilarinho
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 7:35 AM
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: having issues with the latency hearing popping 
> sound in the background
>
> Hi Efren ,
> If I'm not wrong, if you are using the Wave profile, it's because you 
> are not using ASIO drives, instead you are using WDM drives.
>
> I've been there!
>   Download the, free, ASIO 4 All drive, , and you have a part of your 
> problems resolved. All parameters are very accessible.
> Buffer size plus kernel parameters need to be all the time on top of it.
> It's a bit like this, if you are recording you need to put down the 
> buffer size because of latency, drop outs, etc...
> For mixing or mastering work, the opposite is needed, larger buffer 
> size, plus more quantity of kernels.
>
> Another thing.Be aware that  PC's, need   to be better config to work with
> this kind of hard processment.
>
> You need to check on MS config, some aplications that dont really need 
> to be working at the time that you are using Sonar. Or, check Start Up 
> aplications aswell. So much that you can do to improve PC's reaction!!!
>
> All machine, as a limit!
>
> Good luck,
>
> Best regards,
> Rui Vilarinho
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Efren Chavez" <efrenchavez91@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 6:15 AM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: having issues with the latency hearing popping 
> sound in the background
>
>
>> Hey guys updating you on the status of my latency issues. I went to 
>> the options menu on sonar and clicked on audio. I clicked on the wave 
>> profiler and then messed with the buffer size. It was at 2 and 49 
>> percent. I managed to get it down to 10 percent which allowed me to 
>> play a drum kit like the way i wanted to. any where from 10 to 25 
>> percent, the response is excelent. However now i have another problem.
>> I am getting drop outs after i play the second midi track. I try 
>> freezing the track with the drum kit and it would freeze everything 
>> and prevent me from further recording. Is there a way to freeze only 
>> one track Thanks I think i got my latency issues fixed. I still don't 
>> know for sure.
>> Thanks for the assistance.
>>
>> On 10/15/11, Efren Chavez <efrenchavez91@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I checked on the start menu and didn't find anything new that 
>>> related to the soundcard. Should I reinstall the drivers or look in 
>>> it to see if i can find something? To DJX. I have a sony Vaio laptop 
>>> duel core intell 5 with 4 gigs of ram, and windows seven 64 bit
professional.
>>> However I installed the 32 bit of sonar version. Also, the project 
>>> was just a little demo to test the latency. I didn't load demention 
>>> pro or anything just the default cake walk tts. The computer seamed 
>>> to be doing good though. I think it's something to do with the
interface.
>>> I'm about to insert the disk again to see if i can find any thing. I 
>>> even tried finding something on the search box at start.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On 10/15/11, D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> It could be a buffer setting, or depending on your system it could 
>>>> be that it's not able to keep up with the demands of the soft synth 
>>>> and all the other processes. What are the specs for your system? 
>>>> OS, processor, amount of ram, software used etc.
>>>>
>>>> HTH, D!J!X!
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Efren Chavez
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 8:46 PM
>>>> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [ddots-l] having issues with the latency hearing popping 
>>>> sound in the background
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I just got my sound card and it is a sonar tricapture USB. The 
>>>> latency level and response ok, but when i play a sequence of notes 
>>>> at a rapid pace it will not play like I did. Also, I am hearing a 
>>>> popping sound in the background and the sound sounds distorted. It 
>>>> sounds ok when I export though. I did some research and found that 
>>>> the popping sound may be due to small buffer size. Where would I 
>>>> change that. Also do asio drivers come pre-installed on the 
>>>> computer? If so how will I change the settings to optimize the 
>>>> latency issue and sound quality?I installed the tricapture 
>>>> soundcard drivers and didn;t mess with any settings.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, sorry for the long message
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>  Efren Chavez
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>>>
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