Stuttering in Reaper on my cheap laptop

[garrettendi]

Yes G but I meant get another cheap but good interface which uses ASIO drivers.

Dave.

Fair enough, my apologies for the misunderstanding!

[garrettendi]

I haven't got the headphones out, it's late in the evening and Mrs Endi is in a call, so I haven't had the chance to give it a proper good go, but switching to WASAPI Exclusive mode is looking promising.

I'll play around with the buffers as well!

[garrettendi]

OK! I didn't want to wait, so I got the Cochlear Mini Mic out (which can stream headphone output audio straight to my implant wirelessly).

With WASAPI enabled, and adjusting the buffer to that sweet spot now gives no distortion, no stuttering, no pops or etc even with Jamstix and all the drum VSTIs enabled. No need to freeze anymore, but that will be revisited as more tracks are added.

Thanks to all who replied, there was a positive outcome!

[Drew Stephenson]

That's good to hear. No pun intended for obvious reasons.