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  1. I had a similar-sounding issue, and went back to a much older driver, and it has completely fixed the problem. I have a Behringer 404HD and went from v5.x drivers to 4.59. Does your audio interface maybe need extra power? Good luck!
  2. Ha ha ha!!! And dramatic music! That has fixed it! Behringer still has that old driver on there (suspicious, non?). I've put 4.59 back on, and it's now fine! It doesn't care about latency at all. What is strange is that performance has only gone terrible recently. I wonder why that is? However, I'm not a thoughtful or reflective man - I like what I am seeing and that is enough for me!! Thank you very much @giovannibuchelli !
  3. Thank you for your suggestions, @msmcleod but I'd tried most already. I don't understand what you mean by bouncing buses to a new track. Do you mean like this - https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=Mixing.45.html I don't suppose you could explain what this means, or suggest a nice tutorial please?
  4. That is true, but the CPU barely gets into double figures. Presumably Neutron runs as a separate Process in Task Manager. Does making Cakewalk's priority Higher mean Neutron isn't getting the clock cycles it deserves?
  5. I'm using four instances each of (Waves) J37 tape sim, Magma BB Tubes sim & Neutron on drum, bass, vocals bus and guitar bus. Master bus clean. Buffer 2048. No resource issues in Task Manager - system barely ticking over. Video editing software works like a dream - system seems fine. Thanks for thoughts in advance. Not being able to freeze buses is a pain - I'd be fine then!
  6. I'm using Behringer UMC404HD with latest drivers (5.30). Thanks in advance.
  7. Thanks both. LatencyMon seemed very relaxed, and I'm already freezing more than a polar bear, so I guess I just need to use less VST. Thank you for your suggestions.
  8. Happy Easter, Y'all I'm using Windows 10, and I was wondering how people stop their machine glitching and stuttering when they're playing back with plenty of VST plugins. I record on low latency with no plugins, but even pushing my buffer up to 2048 samples when mixing I'm getting stutter. When I look at what's happening in Task Manager, hardly anything is going on. CPU, RAM & disk use are low. I use Task Manager to increase Cakewalk's Priority to High. Two solid state hard disks, 32GB RAM, HP Z620 workstation with a Xeon E5-2690 (10 cores at 3GHz). Cakewalk is up to date. I wonder if there are any Windows settings I could profitably tweak. All suggestions gratefully received, thank you Tony
  9. Thanks @Makke - I wondered about dubbing a bit of fake crowd on.
  10. That is really catchy, but I wonder if it's a bit too woozy. Too much weird, not quite enough solid foundations. Reminded me of Talking Heads. I liked it, but less wooze might make it more approachable.
  11. That's a great sound. I was trying to think of what to sing with it, and could only think of a Chris Isaak vibe. Didn't make me think of winter loneliness, unless you live somewhere sunnier than me. Maybe a desert in winter, waiting for a lover to return. Do deserts have seasons? Do the plants in Texas die off and then return? What's winter in a desert like? Is that the song?
  12. I'd definitely extend the chorus, and maybe use the pre-chorus section to build to it. Every end is a beginning Every good person is sinning. Everything we've seen will come around again. Every end is a beginning Every loser's winning. Everything's circular and comes around again. (Except Death 😉) (Or I certainly hope so.) (Actually, those lyrics are rather cheesy, but so am I.)
  13. Thanks Bjorn I have been backwards and forwards on the vocals - if I make them higher then the music seems to go too quiet. I'll try 1db boost perhaps. I think the song does race ahead of my abilities as a singer, the dream is for a real singer to take it forward. Thank you for your feedback.
  14. Happy Valentine's Day my lovelies You all gave me some great feedback on a song - "Decent lyrics, poor arrangement" - so I've spent some time working out a different style and key and I'm now much happier. I managed to find some Boogie Woogie piano and bass MIDI parts which meant I could change key and tempo in seconds. Well, it took the rhythm section seconds, I took longer. I'd be very curious to know what everyone thinks. Is the vocal too quiet and is there too much reverb? I want to get someone to cover it (and have it on the radio every Twixmas) but it to be clear to a listener how it should sound. The irony of looking to write a commercial song in a style which peaked in 1953 isn't lost on me 🙂 Best wishes
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