PRESETS / CPU / BUFFERSIZE for PlugIns

bluesky · Post by **bluesky** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:37 pm

Hey guys,

got a question: what is your preferred setting of that buffersize? Or - to put it another way - what size do you need? Had some problems with setting at 'AS-Audio-buffer'... now set to the amount of '512' it seems to work just fine... I do use a lot of plugIns (like battery3 etc) - let's say approx. 10/set. Any tips or hints?

System:

p5q se (P45) board w/ Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x 2400 MHz) HPGI54

DIMM 4 GB DDR2-800 Kit (4096 MB) ICIE8M

soundcard EDIROL ua-25 (ext) - wanna change to rme hammerfall (int) soon

Thanks for your advice!

Greetz,

Nico

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bluesky · Post by **bluesky** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:41 am

Any ideas?????

Thx,

Nico

Keddy · Post by **Keddy** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:16 am

It's going to be an individual thing, unfortunately. Just try a setting, see what happens. I don't think anyone else would be able to tell you what you need.

bluesky · Post by **bluesky** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:03 pm

AT first, ty for your reply!

The thing is, I have 3 Albinos and about 6 battery3 PlugIns running - and I keep getting that message NOT ENOUGH DFD MEMORY AVAILABLE .... My thought there might be a connection between that and my topic mentioned above... I might be wrong...
Anyone ever had that or even knows a way to handle that???

TY in advance,

Greetz from Germany,

Nico

laird · Post by **laird** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:49 pm

I think you will be much better off reducing the instances of Battery. 3-6 of them at once? I'd hightly suggest limiting that to one. I understand wanting to have lots of sounds available... load them all into one uber-patch.

If you need to layer, try using less intensive apps... like Impulse.

or hit save-as, then bounce some tracks down to audio... best way to free up resources.

increasing your buffer size can improve playback performace at the expence of latency