Hive and audio dropouts

[MickeyMouse]

I recently got new computer and have some odd problems with it.
F.ex. if I select sound MC Stackatoish from Plugs&Stabs I cannot play it without audio drop outs. Nothing else running, just simply one instance of Hive.
Ableton live 9
CPU: I7 6700K
MB: Asus Z170-A
16 gig memory
Steinberg UR22 with ASIO buffer size 64-2048 does not matter.

Could you please test and report can you play that sound without drop outs ?

[exmatproton]

Try posting here:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31

[mcnoone]

You might try the midi un-learning thing, just to check that no midi learn instance happened.
Pg37 of the user manual here will help with removing all midi assignments.
http://uhedownloads.heckmannaudiogmb.ne ... -guide.pdf

[Teksonik]

if I select sound MC Stackatoish I cannot play it without audio drop outs. Nothing else running, just simply one instance of Hive.

I just tried it on this machine which is my internet computer running an ancient Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz and it plays fine but it will pretty much eat the machine up if I trigger several notes very fast.

I notice that patch has a pretty high Amp 1 Release time, 16 notes poly, all Osc at 7 notes unison, lots of FX and all the MM slots in use. Pretty intense patch (and awesome sounding as well) but if I can play it at a reasonable polyphony on this old machine your i7 should not have audio drop outs unless you are throwing it a whole bunch of notes and I mean a whole bunch.

As you can see by the Benchmark numbers your i7 destroys this old Core 2 Duo:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.ph ... 5B%5D=2565

[MickeyMouse]

3 note stackato is enough to show something like 120% load in Ableton meter and of course that leads to audio glitches.

6700K should have quite state of the art single core processing speed. As I watch some youtube videos where guys have gazillion things going on same time, even without freezing tracks it seems very weird that I cannot use single instance of Hive without glitches. Hive does not support multicore so 6700k should run it as fast (or faster) than any other processor in market.

I also tried to switch sound card to internal, use different USB port (v2 v3 v3.1) for soundcard, disabled some processor turbo and sleep when idle functionality from bios etc.. did not help.
And this is quite bare minimum installation, I do not have anything else than audio software and internet browser installed.

[BDeep]

Is your audio buffer maybe set to a very very low value?

[mcnoone]

Just so you know, the sound was created on a 2010 macbook pro 2.8ghz core 2 duo, with 4gb of ram in Live8 and it hangs out at around 50% cpu usage in Live's meter, in a single instance.
I use a very low audio buffer setting.

It might be a good idea to try it out in a different host, for troubleshooting the issue.

[MickeyMouse]

Thanks mcnoone for verification that this sound indeed should work without problems.
And ofcourse, this is no way Hive problem I just posted this question here because I just happened noticed that I have some odd problems with performance by using Hive.

Well.. that's life, my old laptop broke and as I happen to had little extra cash I decided that first time in my life I can buy and optimize computer just for audio and end result is that this has more weird audio performance problems than any other computer I have owned before and actually works worse than my old laptop. damn..

[MickeyMouse]

Well, I end up re-installing windows and now when almost everything is installed again no more glitches ! No matter how many notes I play, Ableton shows ~23% CPU usage for that sound.
So don't know what the problems was, probably some driver/background service/setting what not gone fubar.