Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.1
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
I would wonder why you’re setting it to more than one? I have used standalone on my M4 mini when the GPU and all performance cores were busy with other stuff, and SD3 standalone with a single core performed without an issue with live drumming.
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.3 Operating system: macOS Tahoe (26)
There’s always the belief that more cores equals better performance. However, in the DAWs, not only is usually the case of one core allotted per plugin on a track, but there is also the law of diminishing returns since the cores are also busy with other plugins on other tracks.
Superior Drummer never had problems running on my old Intel units on 1 core. Definitely running smoothly on my M3. Even running far more velocity layers than I did in the past.
It may be helpful to know how much RAM you have and what kits are you loading to play and what size (in RAM) is the kit. I had issues and eventually made the connection to it being too little RAM on my former machine. I trade it in and got, an M2 in my case, with 32Gb of memory and problem solved.
With an M4 Mac Studio that has 32GB of RAM, you should have SD3 set to 1 core for live drumming in standalone and in a DAW. That machine should have enough horsepower to handle even the most aggressive live drumming you can throw at it. And frankly it will probably run on an efficiency core and not even get close to 100%.
As for your original question – is it normal to get glitches with more than 1 core – I would say that the audio artifacts you describe are typically the result of memory constraints. But there are cases where other factors are at play, and it can get complex and time-consuming to root it out.
All of that is to say: if you do not hear the artifacts with 1 core config, then all is good and leave it set to 1 core and you will be fine.
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.3 Operating system: macOS Tahoe (26)
This is a known issue, and we are working on a fix. In most cases, at least on newer macs and macOS:s, setting the core option to more than 1 will result in worse performance.
In the meantime on macOS we do recommend using the 1 core option.
To be clear. On Windows, we have seen no signs of this issue.
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