Hey all. I have a Receptor on the way and have been pouring over the forum for tips and such. I have noticed that a lot of people run their Receptor at a buffer setting of 128. I have never been able to use sounds from my MacBook Pro or my old Windows laptop at 128. It always felt way too sluggish and not responsive enough. It sounds like there are a lot of people who are happy with that setting with the Receptor. Is the Receptor snappier at 128 than a computer is? I currently am able to run the Scarbee samples from Logic on my MBP at a buffer of 32 with minimal glitching.
Can anyone shed any light on ths for me? I am a little concerned that the Receptor won't be the solution I am hoping for.
Thanks!!
Mitch
Newbie question - Buffer settings
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- KVRer
- 3 posts since 27 Nov, 2005
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi Mitch
In my experience, it has always been a question of tradeoffs. I think almost all of my plugs run at 32, but that can seriously limit the number of simultaneous bugs you can run. I notice zero difference when running 64 (vs) 32 buffer size. It is snappy for things like Piano playing on Ivory. At 128, you can start to notice some latency, but it is not too bad.
Also in my experiences, for equivalent buffer settings, I have felt that my Receptor was 'snappier' and had less latencies. As well, on some DAWs, plugs running on 32/64 buffer size can make a DAW pretty unusable.
just my experiences ... hope that helps,
Kevin L
In my experience, it has always been a question of tradeoffs. I think almost all of my plugs run at 32, but that can seriously limit the number of simultaneous bugs you can run. I notice zero difference when running 64 (vs) 32 buffer size. It is snappy for things like Piano playing on Ivory. At 128, you can start to notice some latency, but it is not too bad.
Also in my experiences, for equivalent buffer settings, I have felt that my Receptor was 'snappier' and had less latencies. As well, on some DAWs, plugs running on 32/64 buffer size can make a DAW pretty unusable.
just my experiences ... hope that helps,
Kevin L
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
oops -- work on the brain :^(
I meant to say 'Simultaneous plugs', not 'simultaneous bugs' !
Kevin L
I meant to say 'Simultaneous plugs', not 'simultaneous bugs' !
Kevin L
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 3 posts since 27 Nov, 2005
Kevin,
Yes...that does help! Hopefully other folks have had the same experience you have. Thanks! And you are right...at 32, Logic sometimes bails out on me...which is not good live, obviously.
Mitch
Yes...that does help! Hopefully other folks have had the same experience you have. Thanks! And you are right...at 32, Logic sometimes bails out on me...which is not good live, obviously.
Mitch
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
oops -- work on the brain :^(
I meant to say 'Simultaneous plugs', not 'simultaneous bugs' !
Kevin L
Or simultaneous posts! ...
I meant to say 'Simultaneous plugs', not 'simultaneous bugs' !
Kevin L
Or simultaneous posts! ...
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- KVRist
- 58 posts since 13 Jun, 2005
dang, you guys have it good. i can't get akoustik piano to play reasonably at less than 512 samples. fortunately i'm not a real piano player so i'm sorta used to it. maybe more memory would help, i've only got 1.25G (Rev.B Receptor) at the moment.
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi Cbreeze
Yeah - Don't walk, run to your electronics dealer and upgrade your RAM. It makes all the difference, especially for Piano and large sample sets.
I don't mean to knock your setup, but I have never felt that I had smoothe 'piano playing' experience from NI plugs (particularly Kompact/Kontakt with large Piano libs). I always got dropouts/glitches/delays. Especially noticiable when playing with heavy sustain. Synthogy Ivory seems to have surpassed these problems with their DFD implementation. If the playability is important to you, I would recommend to take a look at Ivory.
YMMV - others prefer the particular sample sets of one over the other.
Regards,
Kevin L
Yeah - Don't walk, run to your electronics dealer and upgrade your RAM. It makes all the difference, especially for Piano and large sample sets.
I don't mean to knock your setup, but I have never felt that I had smoothe 'piano playing' experience from NI plugs (particularly Kompact/Kontakt with large Piano libs). I always got dropouts/glitches/delays. Especially noticiable when playing with heavy sustain. Synthogy Ivory seems to have surpassed these problems with their DFD implementation. If the playability is important to you, I would recommend to take a look at Ivory.
YMMV - others prefer the particular sample sets of one over the other.
Regards,
Kevin L