KVR Audio

Balaams1 · Post by **Balaams1** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:43 pm

I just bought this guitar vst today. The video and reviews really sold it. However, its popping and crackling a lot at most volumes high or low.
Disappointing, anyone else have the same problem? If so were you able to correct it?-

MadDogE134 · Post by **MadDogE134** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:51 pm

maybe try bumping up your buffer size on your interface's driver and see if that helps

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:32 am

Mentioning which plugin it is would help ...

Balaams1 · Post by **Balaams1** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:19 am

I’m sorry you’re correct I disnt mention which plugin
It’s the Ample SG cherry knockoff
Really was blown away and believe I will be again but I’ve got to get rid of the pop
I’m intrigued by the idea of changing the buffer size
I’m relatively new with Daw, vst’s etc
Where would I make that happen? And will it mess with my latency?
I’m using Mixcraft 9 Studio and a ton of vst’s and samples
I’ve experienced this popping more in the free stuff so I was surprised to hear it in a 140$ VST
Anyway thanks for the input

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:20 am

Do you use an asio audio interface? Mac or PC? Are your samples on an SSD drive? Raising the audio buffer should stop pops, but it may be that you're short on RAM too.

Balaams1 · Post by **Balaams1** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:22 am

I’m using a focus rite audio interface with ASIO on PC using a Roland FA08 as my controller. However, I’m not using the onboard keyboard sounds from the Roland
I’m running the Mixcraft Studio 9 DAW and vst/samples on a 500gb SSD drive. Additionally I have other vst/samples on an HHD drive with a terabyte of memory. The Ample guitar plugin/vst is on the HHD drive
I can’t remember the RAM situation so I don’t want to get it wrong but it’s pretty stacked.
In order to effectively change my buffer settings, would this be handled in the DAW preferences, the focusrite driver, or the internal sound card driver -I added a suped up sound card last year but can’t remember the model or memory usage
That’s pretty much all the info I can think of
I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions as I am a real newbie!
Thanks

MadDogE134 · Post by **MadDogE134** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:36 am

should be under the interface driver probably outside of the DAW but some DAWs will adjust the buffer on the interface. as for latency if you are using just VSTi's then most DAWs will compensate for latency and play things in time. when i am using strictly midi and VSTi plugins i usually set to 512 or 1024 which seems to be fine for my system. smaller buffer sizes are used when recording from guitar into amp sims or playing using a midi controller to avoid latency when actually physically playing... can't stand 10ms or higher delay times lol it throws my timing off. cheers

p.s. yeah i didn't think of your actual RAM limitation... if it is loaded up (full) it will cause popping too. another side note on samples for VSTi instruments... if/when using a spinner hard drive you need at least a 7200 rpm spinner for it to keep up when reading and playing back sample libs for instruments.

Balaams1 · Post by **Balaams1** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:17 pm

Thanks a lot
I’ll look at all these suggestions and keep you posted
What I meant by my RAM was that I think I have enough for my application which is strictly music-Running Windows 10
I have 32gb of RAM on i7-8700 CPU @3.2GHz
64-bit OPS
Not sure if I can increase my RAM
Anyway thank you

MadDogE134 · Post by **MadDogE134** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:56 pm

yeah 32Gb is plenty... more than enough imo cheers

Balaams1 · Post by **Balaams1** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:00 pm

thanks again

askoan · Post by **askoan** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:48 pm

Hi ! One of the causes of sound popping in a new setup is also the cpu power management set to adaptative (it happens also in desktop computers).
You can quickly see in the task manager (ctrl-shift-esc) if your cpu is constantly changing speed.
If so or to double check, set the power management profile to full power, or set cpu to 100% speed in the detail power settings.

Balaams1 · Post by **Balaams1** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:54 pm

I will try that and let you know how it works
Thank you for the advice

Whats with all the popping sounds on the SG