Topic: Superior drummer lags in Pro Tools

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Replied March 26, 2019 at 18:30 #2423721

Scott Eshleman
Participant

While you don’t provide specific details regarding your upgrades & changes ,
I suspect that if there is anything to review, it would be the RAM.
(Toontrack products load their samples into RAM
and only read from the disc while loading them into RAM.)

Do you experience different amounts of lag dependent upon the size of the kit loaded?
Do you have other non-DAW products running in the background too?

Replied March 26, 2019 at 18:50 #2423764

savedbythe90210
Participant

Sure thing

1 Tb hardrive

32 GB rams (16 each)

also external drive is 4tb (where I’m putting the samples of superior drummer)

Replied March 26, 2019 at 19:27 #2423837

savedbythe90210
Participant

There are no applications/daws open or plugins on while running superior drummer on protools. I only have superior drummer in an insert. The lag is constant no matter what bit size I’m running or drums I put in. It’s like a 2-5 sec delay. So the writing process can get really tedious.

Replied March 26, 2019 at 22:36 #2424131

Scott Eshleman
Participant

savedbythe90210 wrote:

Sure thing
1 Tb hardrive
32 GB rams (16 each)
also external drive is 4tb (where I’m putting the samples of superior drummer)

what model Mac?
what processor?
what Operating System are you running?
what version of Pro Tools?

Replied March 26, 2019 at 23:27 #2424191

savedbythe90210
Participant

3.0 ghz (was) quad core 7th gen intel I5 turbo boost up to 3.5

21.5 inch iMac 2017

mojave latest

protools 12 latest update

hope that helps

Replied March 27, 2019 at 09:54 #2424648

John
Moderator

Hi,

I use SD3 daily on a Mac Pro and MacBook Pro and only experience delay (never as much as seconds, though) if there is something in the signal path introducing it.

If you want, I can take a look at your Session but check the playback engine buffer and the signal path.

If you have a low buffer and a direct signal path, you should be able to get down to around 3-5ms round-trip in Pro Tools, depending on which audio interface you are using.

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied March 27, 2019 at 14:04 #2424829

Scott Eshleman
Participant

savedbythe90210 wrote:

mojave latest
protools 12 latest update

Hopefully, a higher buffer setting will reduce the lag for you
and that the issue is not Mojave-related.
I know of at least one (1) Pro Tools installation rendered useless/inoperable
after updating to Mojave.

2019/03/27 - macOS Mojave (10.14) is not supported with Pro Tools at this time.

“AVID has announced that Media Composer 2018.10,
Sibelius 2018.11, and the First products for the same versions of Media Composer
and Sibelius are compatible with macOS 10.14 Mojave.
All other products are not supported yet.”
Check their compatibility page for more information. (LINK)

Replied March 27, 2019 at 18:33 #2425105

savedbythe90210
Participant

I’m definitely gonna try to downgrade to the last OS cause I installed superior literally after I just updated to mojave.

Plus most my friends that have it and use it daily have an older version and it works perfectly.

thank you
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