Latency & Cracking sounds.

[TheoGRM]

It seems that there is an invisible monster that appears occasionally. Usually every update, that monsters does the trick. There was an update that I got away with the problems but now they just had to come back.

I recorded and played on the fly without problems using my Integra-7 & Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 through my DAW-Cakewalk. Suddenly, my Latency that I have at 512  samples and sounds without delay, doesn't work. The tracks wont load and the program is almost not responding but saying "Almost done". None of my projects will load anymore. Then I increase the Latency to 796 and it opens. It works but there is some crackling noises. Then I take it up to 868 and it works. But recording is impossible with the delay due to this Latency. Besides that, I cannot record anything above 44100Hz. When I use 48000Hz, I hear crackling noises when playing back and when recording. Up to the update, I hadn't had any problem. I have a feeling you guys are going to tell me it's the ASIO4ALL is causing all these problems. I uninstalled everything and reinstalled freshly everything. I managed to get it 512 again but the 48KHz recording or playback still crackles. I wonder why Cakewalk doesn't have their own driver that recognizes "Paths & Hardware" so that we don't have to use all these third party drivers, even though you recommend it in many discussions. When I connect the Integra-7 by itself, I can play and record anything. When I use the scarlet by itself, again I can do anything. Even though Cakewalk recognizes the Hardware, you cannot select both devices. A complete nightmare for the musician that wants to utilize everything in his "Armory"! How hard would it be for Bandlabs to enable the functionality between devices that are attached to the PC and use the DAW as a Recording Studio>? If ASIO4ALL as an independent developer managed to do so, why can't the geniuses of Cakewalk(Ex Sonar-which I love for over many years) don't make these devices available?

If there is an alternate way to fix the Latency issue I would appreciate it. I know and don't blame the Bandlab Developers about anything, but I am pretty sure, this would make all the Cakewalk-Sonar fans much more happy. Perhaps if ASIO4ALL didn't announce last year that it was not going to update anymore and they kept on track, things would be better. But can't the Developers implement a similar Driver to get rid of that one and be all Cakewalk ©?

[msmcleod]

Don't use ASIO4ALL - use the official Focusrite Scarlett driver.

I've got a 12 year old machine (Intel i7 3770), and I can run at a buffer size of 64 on most projects without any issues.  Only very occasionally will I need to increase the buffer size to 128 or 256.

[Byron Dickens]

54 minutes ago, TheoGRM said:

I have a feeling you guys are going to tell me it's the ASIO4ALL is causing all these problems.

That's exactly the problem.

Why in God's Name are you using that instead of Focusrite's own ASIO driver?

[mettelus]

Just to be clear, ASIO4ALL is a WDM wrapper, so not only are you dealing with the translation of a program "thinking" it is using ASIO when it is actually WDM, but also WDM has fallen by the wayside in term of performance (to WASAPI). To parrot the above, ASIO drivers that come with hardware are always preferred.

[Starship Krupa]

4 hours ago, TheoGRM said:

I have a feeling you guys are going to tell me it's the ASIO4ALL is causing all these problems.

Good sense of intuition there.

First: switch over to the Focusrite ASIO driver and see if your issues go away. If they do, then you have your own answer.

Second: if your reason for wanting to use ASIO4ALL is to be able to use multiple audio devices at the same time, Windows' native WASAPI Shared will do it easily, and is fully supported in Cakewalk.

The introduction of WASAPI made ASIO4ALL effectively obsolete. It does nothing that WASAPI can't do, and WASAPI is fully supported by both Windows and Cakewalk. ASIO4ALL is actually just a front end for the obsolete WDM, it only exists to help programs that don't support WASAPI (like Ableton Live 11).

Edited January 3 by Starship Krupa