Superior Drummer sutters when I play with Roland e-drums

[Kim Mossige]

Does anybody know how to alleviate stutters/sound dropping out when I play? I have a Focusrite Clarett 4PRE USB with latency set at 128.. My new computer is a Windows 11 i7 12900K with 32GB DDR5 ram. Shouldn’t be any issues with my hardware, still it lags.. It did not do this on my previous Windows 18 8th gen coffee lake computer..

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mark King]

Have you done all the windows tweaks on your new pc. Main one I would say is to enable ultimate power plan. This probably not a visible power plan but if you google it there are instructions on how to make it visible do you can enable.

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

[Kim Mossige]

Mark King wrote:

Have you done all the windows tweaks on your new pc. Main one I would say is to enable ultimate power plan. This probably not a visible power plan but if you google it there are instructions on how to make it visible do you can enable.

It’s not a power-plan issue. All my power cores are active, and they all run at 5.2. I have the fastest CPU that exists to this date, and I have no slowdowns on gaming or any other daw-related things

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: Windows 11

[Mark King]

Have you heard of the program latencyMon? This can identify where the problem is.

your pc should be able to run with buffers lower than 128. I can run at at the lowest mine will go down to no problem (48) mine is an i9 9900.
Have you set SD3 cores down to 1? This definitely seems to make a big difference for some people.

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

[Kim Mossige]

Mark King wrote:

Have you heard of the program latencyMon? This can identify where the problem is.

your pc should be able to run with buffers lower than 128. I can run at at the lowest mine will go down to no problem (48) mine is an i9 9900.
Have you set SD3 cores down to 1? This definitely seems to make a big difference for some people.

Hmm yeah I figured as much, that I was/should be able to run low latency.. I just saw right now that my FOcusrite software was set to 44.1 whilst my sound driver in the control panel was set to 48.. I don’t have time to check at this exact moment, but I will check later if this mismatch was the cause of the stutter. By the way I don’t know how to set SD3 to one core, without using applications like Process Lasso etc, which I am not going to use for several reasons. It messes up more than it fixes

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: Windows 11

[Brad]

Kim Mossige wrote:

Mark King wrote:

Have you heard of the program latencyMon? This can identify where the problem is.

your pc should be able to run with buffers lower than 128. I can run at at the lowest mine will go down to no problem (48) mine is an i9 9900.
Have you set SD3 cores down to 1? This definitely seems to make a big difference for some people.

Hmm yeah I figured as much, that I was/should be able to run low latency.. I just saw right now that my FOcusrite software was set to 44.1 whilst my sound driver in the control panel was set to 48.. I don’t have time to check at this exact moment, but I will check later if this mismatch was the cause of the stutter. By the way I don’t know how to set SD3 to one core, without using applications like Process Lasso etc, which I am not going to use for several reasons. It messes up more than it fixes

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: Windows 11

In SD3; Settings > Performance tab

Under CPU Usage it allows you to set the number of cores.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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Thanked by: Mark King

[MintberryCrunch]

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[gary wood]

have you got an antivirus program running in the background?

I use Kaspersky and find that if i have it turned on it can occasionally cause dropouts/crackles in the audio.

When playing my TD27 I disconnect my laptop from the internet then close down kaspersky and the drop outs are gone.

Just got to remember to put Kaspersky back on!

cheers

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