I have a Mackie 1604 and Focusrite 808/Hammerfall into Waveform 8 via Asio4all.When looping a track to play to after several loops the sound becomes distorted and crackling.This can be rectified temporarily by upping the buffer until this becomes ineffective and the whole lot has to be shut down and restarted.The cpu meter is hardly registering,I have an 8 core processor and 16gb ram windows 7 so this should not be a problem.Also I can't get buffer size below 512ms in order to be trouble free and wondered what size others might get away with.In the analogue days it was also necessary to sync the tracks to correct the delay,in properties panel is the offset for this purpose, sometimes I nudge the track forward to do this.Anyone know how many milliseconds the sync button on a multitrack reel to reel used to be set at,
Regards.
Asio4all
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- KVRian
- 1030 posts since 26 Feb, 2018
A few ideas:
- Why use ASIO4All when you have hardware. Are you sure your hardware doesn't have their own ASIO drivers? Those are likely to provide better performance.
- 8 core processor and 16gb ram
That's not much help. RAM is near useless in DAW work. You could run Tracktion/Waveform with 1 gig and have room to spare. My Ryzen 7 8-processor CPU has enough power left to run 10 more computers by the time my audio starts to crackle. The bottleneck is not the processing power but the real-time performance of your overall system. What's your CPU?
Quick ideas:
Look for ASIO drivers for your gear
Restart your PC when you work with DAW and don't have any other programs open
Set your DAW as a priority process in Windows
See Tracktion and CPU Optimization, part 2:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=501926
- Why use ASIO4All when you have hardware. Are you sure your hardware doesn't have their own ASIO drivers? Those are likely to provide better performance.
- 8 core processor and 16gb ram
That's not much help. RAM is near useless in DAW work. You could run Tracktion/Waveform with 1 gig and have room to spare. My Ryzen 7 8-processor CPU has enough power left to run 10 more computers by the time my audio starts to crackle. The bottleneck is not the processing power but the real-time performance of your overall system. What's your CPU?
Quick ideas:
Look for ASIO drivers for your gear
Restart your PC when you work with DAW and don't have any other programs open
Set your DAW as a priority process in Windows
See Tracktion and CPU Optimization, part 2:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=501926
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 42 posts since 29 Apr, 2009
- Why use ASIO4All when you have hardware. Are you sure your hardware doesn't have their own ASIO drivers? Those are likely to provide better performance.
I use Mackie and Focusrite mixers via their a/d converters simultaneously into Waveform DAW,how would I do this without ASIO4ALL.
I use Mackie and Focusrite mixers via their a/d converters simultaneously into Waveform DAW,how would I do this without ASIO4ALL.
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- KVRAF
- 2417 posts since 17 Jun, 2003
Add two inputs to the tracks you want to record onto?
You can add multiple audio inputs to one track, if you really want to ... (i wouldn't)
You can add multiple audio inputs to one track, if you really want to ... (i wouldn't)
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"my gosh it's a friggin hardware"