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Tesseract Presset not working propperly

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  • Replied March 4, 2024 at 12:51 #3223828
    drumjack52
    Participant

    What exactly do you mean by ‘work fine’? Where is this Tesseract you speak of? While waiting for your answer do realize that a MacBook Air isn’t going to be really good at anything that requires a lot of processing (not to mention storage space on a hard drive).


    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 March 4, 2024 at 12:54 #3223830
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    It has a lot of latency, it cracks and stops and starts and does not sound good and other stuff… The tesseract presset is from a third party developer. I know a macbook air is not ideal, but all other pressets sound fine enough and I dont experience this kind of problem. This tesseract presset does seem to need a lof of extra power as it is composed from 3 different libraries. thx

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 13:17 #3223834
    drumjack52
    Participant
    Corporal Hicks wrote:

    It has a lot of latency, it cracks and stops and starts and does not sound good and other stuff… The tesseract presset is from a third party developer. I know a macbook air is not ideal, but all other pressets sound fine enough and I dont experience this kind of problem. This tesseract presset does seem to need a lof of extra power as it is composed from 3 different libraries. thx

    Okay so it IS your computer – for the most part. What are your buffer settings for audio? What are you using for audio I/O? Is this standalone or in a daw and if the latter – which daw? Is your MBA Intel or Mac silicon? Are the samples on the system drive?


    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 March 4, 2024 at 13:38 #3223840
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    “What are buffer settings for audio”?  I have no idea (I am really new to this SD3 thing.

    Audio I/O : Again, no idea 😀

    1,8 GHz Intel Core i5 Double Core

    Samples are on a external drive.

     

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 14:00 #3223846
    drumjack52
    Participant
    Corporal Hicks wrote:

    “What are buffer settings for audio”?  I have no idea (I am really new to this SD3 thing.

    Audio I/O : Again, no idea 😀

    1,8 GHz Intel Core i5 Double Core

    Samples are on a external drive.

     

    This is going to be difficult. Not to be insulting but how did you even get started with music on a computer if you don’t know about an audio interface or buffers? An audio interface is a box that connects to your computer to take the digital stream and convert it to audio. I’m assuming you’re not just using the audio output from the computer connected to monitor speakers or headphones.


    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 March 4, 2024 at 14:02 #3223848
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    I really appreciate your time and patience but clearly you are not enjoying this conversation and I am not enjoying your tone, so let’s leave it at it.

    Best.

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 14:53 #3223860
    Bear-Faced Cow
    Participant

    How large is that preset? From the looks of the thread, it appears that you are loading far more than your computer can handle. Your perceived latency sounds more to do with your laptop paging memory. I will agree that your computer is not able to handle this preset.

    jord

    Jordan L. Chilcott

    Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 17:19 #3223908
    drumjack52
    Participant
    Corporal Hicks wrote:

    I really appreciate your time and patience but clearly you are not enjoying this conversation and I am not enjoying your tone, so let’s leave it at it.

    Best.

    I hope you can understand my frustration in trying to help when I ask basic questions that any0ne familiar with computer audio should be able to answer and you answer that you have no idea. I even explained what an audio interface was and you refuse to dialog with me.


    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 March 4, 2024 at 19:44 #3223953
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    Ok, let’s start over.

    my knowledge of computer audio is close to zero. I been using addictive drums for playing with my e-kit and recording drums and making covers, for my own pleasure. I have no intention on becoming a profesional musician or anything but I decided to upgrade and I purchased AD3 after reading about its possibilities.

    So right now I have the computer I mentioned, I have a Roland Td50x Kit and SD3. No audio interface. That’s all I have and clearly does not seem to be enough.

     

    My main question is: It is mandatory for me, in order to be able to use SD3, to get a computer with more RAM than 8GB? Or, as the SD3 website and manual etc. says, with a 8GB is enough? If it is enough, why I am having problems? Would an audio interface, like a focusrite scarlett or something like that work?

    Thanks again, sincerely. let’s be friends 😀

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 20:28 #3223972
    Bear-Faced Cow
    Participant

    8GB is the absolute bare minimum. However, when it comes to audio, the more RAM the better. The guideline for choosing a computer for audio production is CPU->RAM->Storage.

    Considering that you have a preset that is giving you issues, you have more than likely exceeded the capabilities of your current system.

    jord

    Jordan L. Chilcott

    Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 20:36 #3223974
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    some pressets go up to 1K, 2K MB and are fine, but once pressets start to go up to 6K 7K then it all starts to crackle and fail etc. so yeah, I guess it’s that

     

    A 16 or 18 RAM would fine then I guess?

     

    thx

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

    Replied March 4, 2024 at 22:59 #3224013
    Mark King
    Participant

    Yes that should be ok. I use 32gig to be on the safe side. I don’t do it for a living but you still need to know the basics. The td50x has an app in the control panel where you can set buffers as long as you have set it to vender mode. Another audio interface won’t fix the crackles though.

    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 March 4, 2024 at 23:20 #3224023
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    Thanks a lot!

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

    Replied March 5, 2024 at 15:06 #3224243
    Petter
    Moderator

    Hey Freddy,

    Other than upgrading your computer, you could unload some of the instruments in your SD3 project and/or disable some of the bleed in the mixer to lower the RAM usage a bit, if that is indeed the reason for the performance issues.

    Removing an instrument:
    remove_instrument

    You can disable all bleed from a channel, which dramatically lowers the RAM usage:
    disable_allbleed

    Or disable bleed from select instruments (to the right in the mixer when an instrument channel in the mixer is selected).
    disable_somebleed

    There are also two toggleable options in the performance menu that opens when you click the RAM usage box in the top right. Both of these options will save some RAM.

    performance_options

    Of course, doing this (especially disabling bleed) will change the sound of the preset.

    Petter Adsten - Toontrack
    Support & Betatesting

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    Replied March 6, 2024 at 09:29 #3224595
    Corporal Hicks
    Participant

    Thanks a lot!

    finally I decided to fix the whole thing by doing something I should have done a long time ago, buying a new computer for my hobby’s and leave my work computer alone with all this nonsense. Now it works like a charm and I can focus on all the other 9028226263 questions I have about all this.

     

    Thanks!

    Corporal Hicks
    Roland TD-50X
    SD3
    AD2
    MacBook Pro 16" 36GB

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