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Have latency issue now but didn’t before…

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Posted March 5, 2012 at 21:38 #1896652

rsavill82
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REALLY hope someone can help me out here.

I installed Superior Drummer 2.0 onto my Mac OS 10.6 (not even a year old) successfully & started using it immediately with my Roland TD-4KX2. I had no latency problems whatsoever & it ran smooth as silk. However, one random day it decided to have some pretty severe latency issues & still does to this day. At times the sound cuts out completely for a second. The volume goes up & down & NOTHING has changed since I installed the software. Alternating between drum & cymbal pads rapidly seems to make the latency worse.

Of course I tried the old restart computer trick & even downloaded the Superior 2.3 update – No improvement.

At this moment I’m running my TD-4KX2 via MIDI through a Tascam US-1641, USB directly into my Mac & mostly playing through the Solo software.

I have no idea what my sound card is or buffer size etc – but like I say, it worked flawlessly before so I can’t see how ‘nitty gritty’ tech info could have anything to do with this… I may be wrong, but it just doesn’t make sense to me.

Thanks in advance.
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Replied March 5, 2012 at 23:07 #1956504

Scott
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Latency is directly related to your audio sound card’s buffer setting.

You should have some kind of ‘Control Panel’ where you can adjust the buffer size. It is usually accessed via your host in an audio devices menu or possibly in the Application folder on a Mac. In Solo, the latency can be adjust via Options->Audio->Latency Settings…

Lower buffers allow for lower latency and ‘real time’ playability.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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Replied March 7, 2012 at 14:14 #1956568

rsavill82
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Thanks Scott.

I can’t seem to locate any buffer settings on my Mac but I did previously adjust the latency settings within Solo. At the time it didn’t seem to help. However, I noticed that once I closed other applications that were running at the same time it fixed the issue! Particularly Safari. I had a video loading on YouTube & I’m thinking this had to have something to do with slowing down the performance of my computer. I could be wrong, but all I know is that once Solo was the only running application I was not experiencing any latency issues.

Thanks!
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