Chris-J

Try turning LoadBalancing to OFF. sometimes it makes Core balancing worse. I usually leave it off, it seems to balance better that way.

Just tried out the Molot GE today, so far I’m liking it. Tried it out on a bass guitar track. For a start, I find the GUI is easier to use than the GUI on the original MOLOT.

I think Kanye West made an album with those noises on it to create some beats, LOL! A bit of a personal quirk of mine, I use the PC2A leveler compressor and the EQ in PC quite a bit, but I rarely use the other compressors in the PC.

I’ve disabled the Ethernet ports (I don’t use them), I’ve tuned a few things in Windows Sound Settings that I seemed to a have missed: turned OFF exclusive mode in Recording and turned off sound enhancement in Recording mode. I turned OFF exclusive in Playback several days ago. I’m running in Airplane Mode, which is supposed to stop the Wi-Fi system from seeking out local Wi-Fi networks. I moved the Audio Interface to another USB port. I just ran the LatencyMon program for 9 minutes, 23. Highest measured interrupt was 795 uS Highest reported ISR was 330 uS Highest reported DPC runtime was 865 uS Reported hardpage fault count: 1833 Big Thanks to everyone who helped out!

Get rid of any bloatware you have that shipped with your laptop. You said you shut down some useless stuff, that should help. I find it helps if I set my laptop to “Airplane Mode”, plus I’ve turned off the Ethernet ports as I never use them anyway. Make sure the laptop is plugged in to AC, i.e. NOT ON BATTERY! You are on the right track if you are using ASIO. Make sure you are using Focusrite’s most up to date ASIO driver with the Scarlett. Ditto for the Behringer interface. I have a running thread in this forum as I have a somewhat similar problem. There is some good advice in that thread from people who know far about this than I do. I’m in the midst of troubleshooting some smaller issues in my 3 week old Dell laptop. It should be easy to find; it’s my one and only thread. It has “88 mS” of silence in the thread title.

I’eve taken a look thru Keyboards, Mice, Display Adaptors, Human Interface Devices, Network Adaptors. I don’t see where Wdf01000.sys is used. Reducing the Internal Display from 120.21 Hz to 60.21 Hz and turning off the Gaming audio and video captures seems to have reduced the LatencyMon parameters.

Thanks, I’ll give this a try!

Ugh! Looks like I have some work cut out for me to see if I can get this thing running “Clean and Green”.

Thanks, I’ll remove the Dell apps and we’ll see what happens. However, I have disabled a few things in the Start Up in Task Manager. I’ll take another sweep thru Task Manager.

Ah-ha! I do have the PC2A Compressor in Pro Channel and it works quite well! One of my favourites for electric guitars.

I suspect there is a plugin conflict between two plugins in the Master Buss. The problem project has Waves SSL Compressor and PlugIn Alliance’s MAAG-4 EQ in the Master Buss. I’m exporting another project which has Waves SSL Comp but does NOT have MAAG-4 EQ in the Master Bus This project does not have drop-outs when it exports.

Weird, I don’t see CA-2 in my list of Compressors. Isn’t that included in Cakewalk By BandLab?

Thanks for the tip. I checked, I don’t have any plugins in Demo Mode. Plus I would think that Demo Mode would drop audio out for a full second or two? Not 88 mS. I will try three other things. First: I have Klanghelm’s “VUMT” meter plugin on my computer and their “VUMT Deluxe” meter plugin installed in the Master Bus. I’ve uninstalled “VUMT” from my computer as I really don’t need it if I have “VUMT Deluxe”. Plus I’ve deleted VUMT Deluxe from the Master Bus as I don’t need it to Export. Second: I have a plugin called Lowtility, but I’m only using it as a High Pass filter so I replaced with the EQ in Pro Channel. Third: I have deleted a plugin called Panipulate, which I only use to listen to the mix in Mono.

I‘ve ran latency, and one of the latency meters goes into dark red. The worst driver is Wdf01000.sys

Thanks John, I will try this out. You are correct, it is actually a Gaming Laptop made by Dell. I have uninstalled all the Alienware software the laptop shipped with and have ensured that “Gaming Mode” is OFF.

An excellent thread! I’m getting some great Freeware suggestions here. Something to try in April, once I get settled in with my new computer.

For $10? I’ll give it a try when I get out of my current troubleshooting mode, LOL! I think the Molot GE GUI is a lot clearer than the old freeware Molot, which is a bit too busy for its own good, IMHO.

Thanks for the info! I don’t think I have plugin in Demo mode, but I will verify this. Chris

Thanks, lots of food for thought here. Several months ago I did have an obvious problem with a Freeware plugin called “EpicPlate”. I very quickly deleted it from my computer. As for the question, do I have an unregistered plugin? I don’t think so, but I will verify. Mistakes can happen! Another test I will run later on today is Exporting another project with different plugins in the Master Bus. The current project, which is displaying this issue, does not have a large quantity of Plugins in it’s Master Bus. Thanks, Chris

To answer your question: Yes, I measured it. Approx. 87-89 mS. I’m not guessing or ball parking. It’s a very reasonable question though. As for not looking for troublesome plugins, I don’t claim to be an expert, that’s why I’m here. I just got a new computer and confess to spending way too much time trying to figure out what was wrong with the new computer, and not looking at DAW software as the culprit. My old computer used an Intel i7-4700U, so freezing a few tracks and NOT using CPU intensive plugins was mandatory just to run a project I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. I’ve learned a lot in this thread and I appreciate everyone’s assistance.

LOL!

Thanks for the assistance folks. I ran another experiment: I left all the tracks frozen, but deleted all the plugins from the busses. The problem disappeared. I would surmise the logical conclusion would be there is a delinquent plugin in the Master Bus. Now I’ll have to narrow it down. I’ve logged off the computer for the day, but I’ll see if I can narrow it down tomorrow. Thanks again for all the assistance!

I ran (6) EXPORTS without a single plugin. No glitches! Success! All I need to do is mix without plugins, LOL! Seriously, thanks for all the help folks. It is very appreciated. I must have a delinquent plugin or plugin manufacturer. I’m going to try exporting another song. I ran all these tests with the same song, of course, to keep the same basis for the tests.

OK, I ran 4 EXPORTS with all tracks frozen. Busses still had active, enabled plugins. On the 4th try, I got the same type of “glitch”. it’s never in the same place, but always 88 mS long, i.e. 88 mS of silence. Now I’m running the export session with ZERO plugins, i.e. all plugins deleted from tracks and busses.

Yes, it has P and E cores. I can see all cores are used in the “Performance” module. I don’t know how to disable the E cores, and I don’t feel too comfortable messing with the BIOS! But I will try that if the other suggestions don’t work. So far, freezing all the tracks seems to work. Which isn’t as tedious and time consuming as I thought it would be, BTW.