I can no longer use sd3

[pro audio]

Hi all, I recently bought the new asus zenbook 14x oled (intel i9, 16gb ram and other good stuff). I happily went through all the installation files, after I installed asio4all and td50x drivers, set buffer to 64 (also 96 128 ecc) but it’s unusable, continuous crackling sounds and the icon of asio4all in the taskbar become red with the exclamation mark. The pc has great specs do you know what’s wrong? I speculated that it’s the asio4all drivers fault with Windows 11, but the first days everything was fine and during this time, however, several system updates have come out. Thank you all!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: Windows 11

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[drumjack52]

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

[pro audio]

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.

[drumjack52]

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

[pro audio]

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?

[drumjack52]

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

[pro audio]

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

[Mark King]

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

[pro audio]

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!

[zenwarlord]

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.)

[Mark King]

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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[drumjack52]

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

[pro audio]

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

[drumjack52]

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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