Crashes, Dropouts

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Before I bought Superior Drummer I recorded acoustic drums digital audio with no problems. I used WDM, buffers at 128, 24 bits, latency was 4.0. No crashes, no dropouts. I bought a Roland TD 20 and Superior Drummer, switched to ASIO and have not been able to record for long without crashing. I often get dropouts during playback using certain avatar kits. I have raised my buffer size, changed to 16 bit record and playback and done some other tweeking. I still have dropouts and am still trying to get everything straightened out. I’m still trying different things as time permits.
 
I have read in the forum that ASIO should be used for E Drums.Is ASIO better than WDM? If so then why is ASIO better than WDM for E Drums?
 
Sonar 6 Producer, Windows XP, Quad Duo, 7200, 4GB, Presonus Firepod  

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[bridger]

I went back to WDM driver and no dropouts so far, just a few pops and cracks. I guess my system just doesn’t like the ASIO driver.

[John]

ASIO gives much better results in general.
Have you checked if there are newer drivers available for your Firepod than what you are using?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[bridger]

John, yes I did download the latest Firepod driver but it didn’t change anything. Earlier today I was recording with my TD 20 using WDM driver and Sonar crashed after a few minutes. ASIO is worse, I get dropouts on certain kits in Superior Drummer. Forget about changing kits on the fly during play back. I’ve tried every variation that I know of to remedy so maybe my system just can’t handle Superior Drummer.

[Scott]

I’m not sure why you’re having problems but your computer specs look adequate enough for S2. I run S2 on 2 systems (both have 2GB of RAM). It runs great on my dual core Vista laptop running ASIO4ALL drivers with Reaper. I can get 64 sample buffer. I also have an ancient, but audio optimized, P4/XP for my studio work and I can also run S2 at 64 samples in Toontrack Solo with my RME soundcard. I can only get to 128 samples when running in Cubase 4 before drop outs.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[bridger]

Scott, I don’t understand either but I know there is an answer. It’s like chasing ghost’s. I checked latency with DPC Latency Checker and it showed no problems with latency.

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