Sample Project with Aria Player -ACID Product Family

Subject:Sample Project with Aria Player Posted by: alexg Date:1/11/2009 4:55:01 AM I'm getting a lot of audio crackling when playing back the Acid Pro 7.0 sample project with the Aria Player. I've adjusted my buffer size at various settings from 6 - 20ms. I'm using an Edirol UA-700 (with ASIO 2.0 drivers) which was top of the line back in 2002 so it is probably only USB 1.1. Could this be the problem? My notebook is workstation class (HP 8710W) with plenty of CPU power and RAM so everything is pointing to the audio interface. Regards, Alex
Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:1/11/2009 2:25:03 PM You are possibly a bit ambitious witht he buffer setting - trty the maximum to see if that makes a difference. I had to set it to that on my old clunker 1GB/ 2G2 Celeron to avoid stuttering. USB 1.1 would only be a problem if also using USB mouse or keyboard ( or another USB device), but unlikely to be problem if project 44k1/16/s... geoff
Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player Reply by: alexg Date:1/11/2009 5:40:04 PM The ASIO config for the UA-700 doesn't allow me to set milliseconds or buffer sizes - it's just a slider with graduations. The max setting gives me around 19-20ms. I installed ASIO4ALL for my onboard SoundMAX HD device. It actually performs better than the UA-700 (at least from a stuttering point of view). This is probably because I can set much higher buffer settings. In contrast ASIO4ALL with the UA-700 is much worse than using the native UA-700 ASIO driver. I also experimented with disabling hardware acceleration (as suggested in the UA-700 manual). It helped a little but all in all I think the UA-700 driver is a little old in the tooth. Alex
Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player Reply by: alexg Date:1/12/2009 2:15:10 PM Looks like I might be putting the blame on my audio adapter whereas the problem could be with Acid. I did a search for "pops/clicks" on this forum and noticed that others were having similar problems. I need to test the Aria Player with the same midi files as in the sample project in Reaper or Sonar. Alex
Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player Reply by: alexg Date:1/18/2009 1:31:17 AM I ran some tests with Sibelius 5 running up to 32 instruments using Garritan's GPO through the Kontakt 2 player. Absolutely no crackles, pops or dropouts. This seems to suggest that my notebook/audio unit has plenty of bandwidth and that the new Sony Aria player in combination with Acid 7 has some problems. Is anyone else having playback problems with the sample project? Alex

Subject:Sample Project with Aria Player

Posted by: alexg

Date:1/11/2009 4:55:01 AM

I'm getting a lot of audio crackling when playing back the Acid Pro 7.0 sample project with the Aria Player. I've adjusted my buffer size at various settings from 6 - 20ms. I'm using an Edirol UA-700 (with ASIO 2.0 drivers) which was top of the line back in 2002 so it is probably only USB 1.1. Could this be the problem?

My notebook is workstation class (HP 8710W) with plenty of CPU power and RAM so everything is pointing to the audio interface.

Regards,
Alex

Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:1/11/2009 2:25:03 PM

You are possibly a bit ambitious witht he buffer setting - trty the maximum to see if that makes a difference. I had to set it to that on my old clunker 1GB/ 2G2 Celeron to avoid stuttering.

USB 1.1 would only be a problem if also using USB mouse or keyboard ( or another USB device), but unlikely to be problem if project 44k1/16/s...

geoff

Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player

Reply by: alexg

Date:1/11/2009 5:40:04 PM

The ASIO config for the UA-700 doesn't allow me to set milliseconds or buffer sizes - it's just a slider with graduations. The max setting gives me around 19-20ms.

I installed ASIO4ALL for my onboard SoundMAX HD device. It actually performs better than the UA-700 (at least from a stuttering point of view). This is probably because I can set much higher buffer settings.

In contrast ASIO4ALL with the UA-700 is much worse than using the native UA-700 ASIO driver.

I also experimented with disabling hardware acceleration (as suggested in the UA-700 manual). It helped a little but all in all I think the UA-700 driver is a little old in the tooth.

Alex

Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player

Reply by: alexg

Date:1/12/2009 2:15:10 PM

Looks like I might be putting the blame on my audio adapter whereas the problem could be with Acid. I did a search for "pops/clicks" on this forum and noticed that others were having similar problems. I need to test the Aria Player with the same midi files as in the sample project in Reaper or Sonar.

Alex

Subject:RE: Sample Project with Aria Player

Reply by: alexg

Date:1/18/2009 1:31:17 AM

I ran some tests with Sibelius 5 running up to 32 instruments using Garritan's GPO through the Kontakt 2 player. Absolutely no crackles, pops or dropouts. This seems to suggest that my notebook/audio unit has plenty of bandwidth and that the new Sony Aria player in combination with Acid 7 has some problems.

Is anyone else having playback problems with the sample project?

Alex