I'm getting a fair bit of clicking from Akoustik Piano and Kontakt. With Akoustik Piano it seems to be mostly noticeable after you first load up the sound. The CPU meter isn't anywhere near full though. I'll be switching between pianos a fair bit live.
I've got the buffer size at 128 samples. Anything higher feels a little too slow latency-wise. My only fear is that I upgraded my Rev-C to the fully 2GB using fairly cheap memory. You reckon that's got anything to do with it??
I still can't get Elektrik Piano 1.5 working too ...
My tours 6 weeks away and I'm starting to panic ...
I'm getting a fair bit of clicking ...
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- KVRer
- 3 posts since 21 May, 2007
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- KVRist
- 119 posts since 13 Jul, 2007
I've gotten the exact same results on a new "Komplete Inside" Receptor, and it's got the full 2GB from the factory. The clicking is most likely caused by samples failing to stream off the disk fast enough, not by flaws in your memory. I'm not sure how well switching between pianos will work live. Perhaps if you have each piano on a separate channel? They take a while to load from Akoustic piano on the same channel. With Elektrik piano you can turn the direct from disk streaming off and just load the entire sample into RAM. I've found that completely eliminates clicking there, and using the smaller electric piano samples fully loaded into RAM is the only way I've been able to do layered piano/rhodes with the NI stuff.
I find 128 sample to be too much latency for my taste, but Akoustic Piano on my Receptor is a clicky mess with anything less. It sounds like Ivory is the better solution for high quality piano emulations on the Receptor.
I find 128 sample to be too much latency for my taste, but Akoustic Piano on my Receptor is a clicky mess with anything less. It sounds like Ivory is the better solution for high quality piano emulations on the Receptor.
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi Shandy,
I can't speak for Akoustic Piano - but I can give praise for Ivory. I did alot of 'torture testing' of Ivory on Receptor under various buffer sizes, playing conditions, and RAM. Ivory would barely click when using buffer size 32, and not at all for any greater buffer sizes. Ivory's engine was well suited for sustained playing as well. In more subjective ways, I feel a greater connection using Ivory/Receptor and my Yamaha S90 controller - than I have eer felt with *any* other Piano emulation,
Regards,
Kevin L
I can't speak for Akoustic Piano - but I can give praise for Ivory. I did alot of 'torture testing' of Ivory on Receptor under various buffer sizes, playing conditions, and RAM. Ivory would barely click when using buffer size 32, and not at all for any greater buffer sizes. Ivory's engine was well suited for sustained playing as well. In more subjective ways, I feel a greater connection using Ivory/Receptor and my Yamaha S90 controller - than I have eer felt with *any* other Piano emulation,
Regards,
Kevin L
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- KVRian
- 1116 posts since 22 Apr, 2005 from Nashville, TN USA
I CAN speak to Acoustik Piano (though I don't particularly like the sounds 
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Until OS 1.6 and my RevC upgrade, I had these problems. But now I can run AP (or K2 with larger SampleTekk pianos which to me sound better) and I have NO clicking at 128. And this is with EP and B4 running as well (I use the light EP presets and turn off DFD as previously mentioned as well...it seems like MULTIPLE NI VST's with DFD running simultaneously does cause MAJOR DFD issues, and this may well be because the various products are on different VERSIONs of DFD).
But anyway, one instance of AP running at 128 should NOT BE CLICKING AT ALL, PERIOD. If this is the case with yours I would open a ticket on Plugorama immediately....something is NOT right.
Also turning off the convolution reverb on AP and using the "eco" most instead helps preserve CPU.
Oh, one other factor is of course the HD size....I reckon in general the larger drives Muse installs are a fair bit faster...I got a 400GB drive when I had Komplete4 installed, and it does seem faster than my old 160GB drive.
)Until OS 1.6 and my RevC upgrade, I had these problems. But now I can run AP (or K2 with larger SampleTekk pianos which to me sound better) and I have NO clicking at 128. And this is with EP and B4 running as well (I use the light EP presets and turn off DFD as previously mentioned as well...it seems like MULTIPLE NI VST's with DFD running simultaneously does cause MAJOR DFD issues, and this may well be because the various products are on different VERSIONs of DFD).
But anyway, one instance of AP running at 128 should NOT BE CLICKING AT ALL, PERIOD. If this is the case with yours I would open a ticket on Plugorama immediately....something is NOT right.
Also turning off the convolution reverb on AP and using the "eco" most instead helps preserve CPU.
Oh, one other factor is of course the HD size....I reckon in general the larger drives Muse installs are a fair bit faster...I got a 400GB drive when I had Komplete4 installed, and it does seem faster than my old 160GB drive.
