Jon White Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Just one thing I've found in my little corner of the world: disabling my CD/DVD device on two of my music computers has dropped latency and dumb stuff dramaticaly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Just now, Jon White said: Just one thing I've found in my little corner of the world: disabling my CD/DVD device on two of my music computers has dropped latency and dumb stuff dramaticaly. Although I will say that it was only Cake/Sonar that manifested the problems. Latency Monitor helped show the situation. That situation did not seem to make Sequoia, Nuendo or Reaper fail. Just our baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckebaby Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Yea wish i had some words of encouragement. For what it's worth, i've never heard of anyone (actually ever) disabling their cd/dvd player to improve latency. Is your audio interface bus powered ? or plug in (AC) ? I actually like what Reaper has to offer (especially in its way to manipulate audio speed). But i find Cakewalk with more features and easier to use. for what i do anyway (typical project is 30 audio tracks/5 midi tracks/50+ plug ins/Region FX). I've had good results in both DAW's (Cakewalk+Reaper). I switched to Reaper for a while when Cakewalk went down. But came back as soon as Cakewalk did. I have an Intel I7 AsRock mobo, 16 GB of ram. Nothing crazy. And a 1st gen Focusrite Scarlett (actually I've never even updated the drivers before LOL). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Rantaaho Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Sounds weird to me. Unless you've been listening background music from CD/DVD while recording .? Does disabling the DVD device show any change in Task Manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reginaldStjohn Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 It could be an issue with shared memory or IRQ resources. If the offending HW is removed it may make things run smother because you have removed the conflict? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Great ideas, all. It creates "NTOSKernel" (or close, my spelling and caps may be wrong) in the top 3 list of resource burdens in LatMon. The other two are, of course, NVIDIA resources. Wish I had another brand of vid card, frankly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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