If latencymon reports a problem as severe as this then you are just dodging bullets all the time. For instance you may well be able to record without glitches but not play softsynths. A system with DPC latency values like this is never, ever going to perform reliably under all scenarios. My Lenovo ...

How ironic then that Native quietly killed off Absynth, one of its most iconic and unique synths, even though the developer was more than willing to help keep it alive. Yup. Thanks for reminding us all about the realities of large company culture but best of luck anyway - there are quite a few ...

Ok. This is my day job, so a few comments. DPC latency refers to deferred procedure calls. A DPC is queued and then ultimately dispatched and processed. This is done so that the calling thread will not block waiting for the actual operation to be performed. Then another thread will ultimately pull ...

Furthermore, complicated anti-copying routines are mandated by humanity’s poor record of honesty. Perhaps all this is our just reward … That's why I prefer to support developers who trust their customers. Most of my software is authorised using serial numbers. I have a simple rule of thumb. Does thi ...

I did some googling and a lot of people have suffered this but without any clear resolution. However, to summarise the things I would try 1. All AV disabled. Note that some AV software installs filter drivers which you really, really do NOT want on your system. Have a look with the 'fltmc' utility ...

Unfortunately these kind of DPC latency issues can be related to vendor-specific drivers or vendor-specific code that ends up being called by drivers that is poorly written. Some vendors - Dell for instance - are notorious for this problem and it can be very difficult to resolve this for a ...

You will hate the manual and you will hate the Yamaha presenter who does the promotional videos. That's unfair of me because I am sure he is a lovely person and it is mean of me to say that. But. See what you think. But as a piece of kit it is one of very few things I have ever bought (Hydrasynth 49 ...

Thanks for taking the time to explain all that, it sounds very interesting indeed, couple of questions, is it a multitrack interface? and do the effects have a few of the classic SPX algorithms in there? :thumbup: So, the desk itself is not a multi-track *recorder*. It can only record a stereo pair ...

I'm struggling to imagine a mixed set of sources that included any kind of mic'd sounds that could conceivably have a natural noise floor low enough that dither could possibly affect things. You'd have to be working with digital sources solely in the digital domain (e.g synths) surely to be able to ...

If I read your original post correctly I understand that you had to power cycle the phone to resolve the problem (though you also unplugged it from the mixer). Assuming you didn't have to power cycle the mixer/amp as well, then I strongly suspect the phone, therefore, since although it's conceivable ...

That DM3 looks very interesting, notice it only has eight faders, are layers involved? I know nothing about digital mixers. So, it’s a mixer, an interface, and a control surface, plus FX etc? Yes, there are two layers, for the main inputs, and the faders will all jump to the settings as appropriate ...

I've posted a few times on this elsewhere but the decision I made a couple of years ago to make the Yamaha DM3s mixer the centrepiece of the studio solved so many problems for me. It now sells for £1300 too, which is £200 less than I paid. That is still a wodge of cash but you are getting 16 a ...

Sitting with a morning coffee reading this thread and many thanks to Wonks in particular for such a careful explanation. I learned a lot reading that, despite being a hopeless guitar and bass player (string damping and barre chords seem to be my Achilles heel). So frustrating because if I could ...

I think most.musicians who can read are only going to want perfect charts in the rare event that there's no recording they can listen to. If there is something, then even if you then want something "in the style of" rather than an exact transcription, then fairly basic charts are useful because they ...

Definitely looking forward to a "Wonks guitar furtling" article in SOS though (assuming Hugh and Wonks can be persuaded). This would be of interest to many SOS readers including keyboard players like myself who of course have some guitars but are largely clueless about whether they are badly set up ...

I know nothing of guitars but I would suspect if the saddle assembly is an exact replacement that indeed the design or manufacturing processes have led to a marginal issue with the retaining threads, a common issue in many different products. One non-intrusive way of resolving this is to wrap a ...

On the topic of shipping stuff around..... If anyone's thinking of purchasing anything from outside the UK, I think Reeves is considering dramatically reducing the 'de minimis' exclusions for incoming packages to only around £40 or so. Apart from adding customs duty (at a much lower threshold then ...

I've only done quite a few transactions the other way, getting stuff shipped from the US. The big carriers like FedEx seem to be fairly good and they do have some local offices in the UK which you can actually go to, to either ship or pick up items (e.g Slough would be the nearest to where I live ...

Any untreated listening environment is going to add room nodes and they won't flatter the sound. Obviously flutter echo is the absolute worst case but even where you don't have obvious ringing, I can attest that my untreated plasterboard walled listening environment is far from ideal. Whereas your ...

Of course unfortunately a fair few amp designs don't always fully consider the safe operating area in the semiconductor datasheet. In fairness to the designers this can be tricky as the load is inductive and challenging to model. But those data sheets mean what they say and even a brief excursion ...

A bigger heatsink has more thermal inertia and therefore will take longer to reach a given temperature but unless there is some way for this heat to escape, ultimately it will not really help. What is needed is airflow and as has been said a low noise fan- Noctua are as suggested a very good choice ...

Some machines -Dell is a notorious example - have poorly written power management drivers that introduce dpc latency spikes and/or push dpc latency up to the point where small buffers simply cannot be filled and processed reliably. Other brands can also have issues with other drivers such as WiFi ...

Shouldn't they simply run within the VST environment of the host DAW? Not normally - plug-ins are binary machine code files so they need to be coded for the processor in use. Of course, if you use Reaper then JS Plug-ins will run in the way that Wonks describes as they are simply text files that ...

I will always remember the SOS demonstration years ago at a music fair where they recorded a very talented female vocalist with several mics. And the winner? Well, as was said at the time, with the price less than the VAT on the highest end mic, it was the AT2020. Always worth trying this out first ...