What does a softsynt need

[diabolusinmusica]

I've bought an absynth3 and install it to my computer. I have a configuration which has 256mb ram an intel celeron 2000mhz processor and a creative audigy2 platinum. When i choose creative asio with 5ms latency input levels gets very high values till they become red that makes sound weird. I know my computer doesnt have a good configuration but i dont know what makes this problem. Do you have an idea?

[lighthouse]

Well with that config it should work well, I have the Audigy and I know sometimes it just fucks off, but is not usual.....maybe try a higher latency, like 10ms, it works for me on Reason, and try restarting the computer as well if you still have the problem....hope this helps


Juan Pablo

[diabolusinmusica]

I have solve that problem in reason too. But native instruments softwares for example guitar rig had such kind of problems in my computer before. When i am using absynth my 256mb ram shows 346. Can this be a reason?

[lighthouse]

really don´t know, but I used to have the same Audigy on a pentium 3 of 1.0 with 256 on ram and I didn´t have a problem with NI B4....now I have an AMD Semtron with 3.2 Gh and 512 ram....and don´t have problems with NI Guitar rig (version 1.2 cause they solved some latency problems on it).....never used Absynth before....I have a friend who has it I´ll try it on my computer to see of I have a problem like yours.....


Juan Pablo

[Farren]

Download ASIO4ALL at www.asio4all.com and choose that as your driver rather than the Creative shit. Then, try 96000 hz and 1024 samples (which is still a bearable 10-12 ms latency) and turn it down until your sound crackles, then add maybe 100 samples. If that doesn't work, what can I say, Creative is a horrible company. I have an Audigy 2 ZS for gaming and it barely works well for that. Unfortunately, they have a monopoly stronger than MS. Funny how monopoly companies have the worst hard/software.

If ASIO4ALL doesn't help, it could be your ram I guess. It meets the minimum but 512mb is recommended. I don't completely understand what your problem is, if the sound crackles or if it's some weird software thing, but there's not a lot to do other than try different ASIO drivers, get more RAM or buy a real soundcard :/ One of them is bound to do the trick.

[jeebustrain]

Download ASIO4ALL at www.asio4all.com and choose that as your driver rather than the Creative shit. Then, try 96000 hz and 1024 samples (which is still a bearable 10-12 ms latency) and turn it down until your sound crackles, then add maybe 100 samples. If that doesn't work, what can I say, Creative is a horrible company. I have an Audigy 2 ZS for gaming and it barely works well for that. Unfortunately, they have a monopoly stronger than MS. Funny how monopoly companies have the worst hard/software.

If ASIO4ALL doesn't help, it could be your ram I guess. It meets the minimum but 512mb is recommended. I don't completely understand what your problem is, if the sound crackles or if it's some weird software thing, but there's not a lot to do other than try different ASIO drivers, get more RAM or buy a real soundcard :/ One of them is bound to do the trick.


if that doesn't work, use the KX project drivers (http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/). The ASIO support is fabulous, makes the crappy creative cards run almost as well as a higher end M-Audio card.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Funny how monopoly companies have the worst hard/software.

Well, if it's due to government licensing or some other form of market restriction, it makes perfect sense. Not allowing competition produces inferior products.

[jeebustrain]

Well, if it's due to government licensing or some other form of market restriction, it makes perfect sense. Not allowing competition produces inferior products.


it's because they bought out or ran all of their competitors into the ground.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

The cost of buying out or running competition into the ground is so tremendously expensive that only market entry restrictions or other barriers would allow a company in the real world to do it. If you want to have a long debate about this, I'm perfectly willing to go at it. ;)

[Farren]

Not allowing competition produces inferior products.

Yeah, it does make sense. It's still sad that capitalism results in something shitty like Creative soundcards and MS operating systems. Creative has released the same card for the past 8 years (oh wow, each card has added support for another speaker or two!), all of which have had awful drivers and inane software requirements (latest drivers aren't downloadable. You must install the drivers from the cd that came with the soundcard before you can upgrade). I guess I'll have to quit gaming with the next MS OS and move back to Linux, since as it is, I can't even install SP2 without sacrificing a lot of backwards compatability and privacy.

[diabolusinmusica]

I used to use kx drivers becouse of my ac3 problem but i couldnt get what i was expecting so i return creatives drivers again. Open source softwares are not perfect too. And they are still not user friendly. Although i dont like MS i dont turn to linux couse i dont want to operate my operating system, I dont want to make time for it. There is some time for open sources i think.

[diabolusinmusica]

I wanna add that i dont have any problem with reason with same settings i have problems with NI products.

[lighthouse]

Download ASIO4ALL at www.asio4all.com and choose that as your driver rather than the Creative shit. Then, try 96000 hz and 1024 samples (which is still a bearable 10-12 ms latency) and turn it down until your sound crackles, then add maybe 100 samples. If that doesn't work, what can I say, Creative is a horrible company. I have an Audigy 2 ZS for gaming and it barely works well for that. Unfortunately, they have a monopoly stronger than MS. Funny how monopoly companies have the worst hard/software.

If ASIO4ALL doesn't help, it could be your ram I guess. It meets the minimum but 512mb is recommended. I don't completely understand what your problem is, if the sound crackles or if it's some weird software thing, but there's not a lot to do other than try different ASIO drivers, get more RAM or buy a real soundcard :/ One of them is bound to do the trick.

Well, I work with the Creative shit and I don´t have any serious problem, I can work with 24 audio tracks filled with plug ins including NI B4 and NI GUitar Rig, with REason 2.5 rewired and don´t have a dropout.....


Juan Pablo