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I can no longer use sd3

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  • Replied October 24, 2023 at 21:38 #3146762
    drumjack52
    Participant

    What’s your audio interface? If it has it’s own drivers you have no need for ASIO4ALL. Those drivers are the absolute worst things around. What other stuff do you have running when trying to use your drum setup? Wireless internet can play havoc with audio.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied October 24, 2023 at 22:07 #3146770
    pro audio
    Participant

    I don’t have an audio interface, so far I’ve always done it with asio4all, but I had a pc with windows 10, this is my first experience with win11. Yes, before starting sd3 I turn off the wifi.

    Replied October 24, 2023 at 23:26 #3146791
    drumjack52
    Participant
    pro audio wrote:

    I don’t have an audio interface, so far I’ve always done it with asio4all, but I had a pc with windows 10, this is my first experience with win11. Yes, before starting sd3 I turn off the wifi.

    You need a real audio interface. What’s built into a computer isn’t fit for anything except for maybe watching YouTube videos. You spent big bucks for a premium piece of software so there’s no reason to skimp on the audio output electronics. Built-in audio I/O is done to the cheapest of specs.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied October 25, 2023 at 00:41 #3146809
    pro audio
    Participant

    I never asked too many questions, everything worked fine before, thank you for the advice. Do you have any good quality/price models to recommend?

    Replied October 25, 2023 at 00:45 #3146810
    drumjack52
    Participant
    pro audio wrote:

    I never asked too many questions, everything worked fine before, thank you for the advice. Do you have any good quality/price models to recommend?

    YOu are the only one that can make that choice because it depends on how much you are willing to spend. You have to look at how much I/O you need now, how much you might need in the future, how much space do you have, etc. And don’t forget to add the cost of good monitor speakers to that. Quality audio I/O ain’t cheap.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied October 25, 2023 at 20:29 #3147084
    pro audio
    Participant

    Do you suggest to connect the td50 with the usb direct to the pc or with the midi cable to the audio interface? Thanks

    Replied October 25, 2023 at 22:13 #3147125
    Mark King
    Participant

    Have you tried using the td50 as an audio interface?

    Even a good interface won’t stop pops and crackles. Have you gone through all the pc os tweaks? Are you running on mains and using high performance power mode?

    SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

    Replied October 27, 2023 at 22:10 #3147711
    pro audio
    Participant

    After many system update the battery mode was set to default (balanced) even when I connected to the power supply it didn’t set on high performance (before it did). So after setting high performance everything was fine, also I can play with the td50x driver at 48 buffer size with no audio problems. Thank you for reminding me of this big little detail!

    Replied October 31, 2023 at 05:36 #3148783
    zenwarlord
    Participant

    To me (a win10 owner) this is a bad sign for win11.  Of course it could have been something else about the setup of your O/S when you had win10 that was a little more well adjusted for audio playback and streaming.  My worse experience with music software and hardware was getting a computer that had a built in tv tuner.  I didn’t realize that the tuner had a bad driver that was causing CPU spikes.  There’s a free tiny piece of software that can turn your CPU performance into a high resolution graph.   It could be that your performance on Win11 is made worse by some driver like was true for me.  But at least right now you’re able to function.  (I agree with the above comment that ASIO 4 all has been fraught with problems – but glad you’re able to get by.)

    Replied October 31, 2023 at 18:35 #3149027
    Mark King
    Participant

    Win 11 works fine. I’ve been using it for a couple of years with no problems. I have a dedicated pc for making music and would never use it as multipurpose. Definitely not with a tv tuner in it!

    SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

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    Replied October 31, 2023 at 19:35 #3149069
    drumjack52
    Participant
    pro audio wrote:

    After many system update the battery mode was set to default (balanced) even when I connected to the power supply it didn’t set on high performance (before it did). So after setting high performance everything was fine, also I can play with the td50x driver at 48 buffer size with no audio problems. Thank you for reminding me of this big little detail!

    Also don’t forget to turn off power savings measures to the USB ports. Windows turns them off after a certain amount of unknown time. The little power that power saving saves you isn’t worth the hassle of losing your USB connections.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied November 3, 2023 at 17:29 #3150678
    pro audio
    Participant

    Which of these should I disable the power saving setting? Thanks

    Replied November 3, 2023 at 22:05 #3150788
    drumjack52
    Participant

    Everything


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

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