DIVA demo question

[quantum7]

I just spent an hour playing with the DIVA demo and it does sound very good...BUT...I constantly kept getting the demo crackles like every 5 or 10 seconds...AND is it supposed to crackle that bad that it sounds like my monitors are going to blow up? Even transitioning between patches I was getting crackles- will it be like that with the licensed version? I was even having weird issues with some patches only playing on the lower octaves, and some patches did not even play at all. Naturally this makes me a little nervous for a possible purchase. Is all this normal for a demo version? I really wish it would just time out after 15 minutes or so instead of the very annoying and monitor destructive crackles.

[mcnoone]

I used the demo for about a week before I bought it, and had none of the problems you mentioned.
The crackles were about once every 30 seconds, and they were light, not loud at all.
All the presets played as normal, and still do.
What is your cpu usage at, or what are your pc specs, and daw used?
Soundcard?

Even transitioning between patches I was getting crackles- will it be like that with the licensed version?

No.
edit:btw. Close out the session and load Diva back up again, and the crackles will not be as short a time apart. I believe if you use it for more than 10 minutes at a time, the crackle volume increases, and the times between shorter.
If I remember correctly, this was what happened when I used the demo.
I might be wrong about that, but try it anyway, and see.
edit.
Why was I thinking Ace? Well they have the same demo thing anyway.

[bighorse]

Assuming you've got your buffer already within reasonable bounds for your other plug-ins - What quality are you running Diva at? You can vary the 'fidelity' for want of a better word, the higher the quality the more it will cane your cpu.

Try this: set it to draft, quit everything, re-open. If you're not getting the severe crackles try bumping it up a quality notch one go at a time.

Some patches will kill my machine too on "Divine" quality, and remember the number of notes you're hitting will vary the impact on the CPU. Some patches on divine I can play a couple or three notes, beyond that it will crackle. Renders in 'divine' mode sound just that, divine.

I purchased Diva and have had not a single crackle like what you're describing though. Hope that's re-assuring.

[quantum7]

It actually was a little better when I restarted it later. My CPU is pretty darn powerful, but that sucker still takes some juice. Looking forward to taking it for another spin later this evening.