Newbie: stuttering sound from VSTi?

[grizzly]

Hello,

Just tried out Luna Free (Win XP, 2.8 CPU, E-mu 0404 ASIO) for the first time, and it looks very promising. It just seems that even a 4 bar legato note produces a stuttering sound, kind of like playing 32th notes instead of one long one. It seems VSTi independent.

I'm sure I'm doing something stupid. But what?

TIA,

grizzly

[ouroboros]

It is difficult for me to know form the description, but it sounds like a cpu/processing issue of some sort. I sometimes get stutters from plugins when I use the available cpu.
However, your cpu is plenty fast, so it might be some latency setting or sample rate setting.

Try setting things to 44.1khz/16 bit (Which it is probably defaulted to) on your asio panel, and shoot for 10ms latency, moving it faster and faster towards 3ms until the stuttering stops?

Maybe someone with said card can chime in. Good luck

[grizzly]

Try setting things to 44.1khz/16 bit (Which it is probably defaulted to) on your asio panel, and shoot for 10ms latency, moving it faster and faster towards 3ms until the stuttering stops?

Thank you! I did the exact opposite, and it helped . For some reason I had the E-mu ASIO set 100ms latency, and when I moved it down 10ms the stuttering went away. When I moved it back to 75ms the stuttering came back.

I actually realised now when I read your answer, that stuttering was the wrong term, since it indicates irregular sound. The sound (when at 75ms) was more gated or chopped, it actually sounds like some kind of "trance gate", it is so rythmic.

I don't understand how higher latency setting can cause this, but I'm very glad that now I can continue learning Luna . Thanks again!

Regards,

grizzly