Topic: Latency setting and soft synths

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  • #814
    darcyb62
    Participant

    I’ve just noticed an issue with soft synths in that I am getting pops in the output sound. I’ve tried Cygnusm Stringz and String Theory and the same thing is occuring in all 3.

    I’ m usally set to 2ms latency and if I bump it up to 25ms the frequency of pops decrease but do not really go away. BAck down to 2ms and the frequency of pops is higher.

    CPU jumps between 20% and 50% but peaks in cpu don’t seem to correlate to pops.

    I tried the same in Tracktion and there are no issues.

    Cubase LE is fine as well.

    #6649
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Do the pops occur with all your plugins or just the three you mentioned? If you bounce render offline, are there any pops in the bounced audio file?

    #6650
    darcyb62
    Participant

    I’ve gone through them 1 by 1 here are the results…

    I’ve set up a 4 bar loop, with no more than 3 noted played simultaneously…

    Bar (xoxos) – yes
    Chill – yes
    Cosmogirl II – no
    Crystal – yes
    Cygnus – yes
    EffEm – yes
    Etiquet – no
    Etiquet2 -yes
    EVM Grand Piano – yes (but very subtle)
    EZ-Poli (krakli) -yes
    FreeAlpha – no
    Gargoyle – no
    Lizard (krakli) – no
    Chimera – yes
    Vurtbox – yes
    Morphoza – no
    Neokiller III -yes (very high cpu though)
    Richman2 – yes
    String Theory – yes
    Stringz – yes
    4front bass – no
    4front epiano – no
    4front piano – no
    Ninja – no
    Oatmeal – yes (played note stops after pop)
    Poliblit – yes (played note stops after pop)
    Rebel2 – no
    Rez – yes
    Sampletank 2 free – no

    I tried all the above in Tracktion… None pop with the exception of Neokiller II with latency set to 2ms. If I increase latency to 10ms the problem goes away.

    If I bounce render offline there are no pops even with with the worst setting on Neokiller II.

    #6651
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    I tried with Cygnus, and I was able to get pops with low latency setting. I’ll examine what causes this. The pops are only present during playback, and not while auditioning the synth live with MIDI in. Do you get pops when auditioning synths?

    #6652
    darcyb62
    Participant

    I don’t use a midi in. Everything is done from the paino roll.

    #6654
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Bug found. It turned out to be related to the preset system changes introduced in the latest release. I’ll make a bug-fix version tomorrow.

    Thanks for pointing out this bug to me.

    #6655
    darcyb62
    Participant

    @Zynewave wrote:

    Bug found. It turned out to be related to the preset system changes introduced in the latest release. I’ll make a bug-fix version tomorrow.

    Thanks for pointing out this bug to me.

    No problem. Great work finding and fixing so quickly.

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