SWAM crashing inside Cakewalk

[jono grant]

Has anyone had any luck using "Swam" VIs in Cakewalk? 

Super powerful stuff but Cakewalk can't handle it for some reason. I have a file with one wave file in it, no effects and Swam is causing lags and crashing behavior. 

I think my computer should handle one SWAM instrument.

Is there a Midi or other setting I could tweak to get it working more smoothly? 

Buffer is crashy at 128 and too much latency at higher rates. Tried multiple buffer sizes.

 

Any help appreciated! Thanks

[Amberwolf]

Based on their FAQ they probably don't test with any bandlab products, since they don't list them.  Most likely there's something their plugin does differently than the usual that CbB doesn't expect.  But it could be a system  compatibility issue instead--do they work in any of their listed hosts on your computer?

https://kb.audiomodeling.com/en/c/compatibility/d/what-are-the-hostsdaws-compatible-with-swam-instruments
 

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Edited Sunday at 07:44 PM by Amberwolf

[jono grant]

9 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

Based on their FAQ they probably don't test with any bandlab products, since they don't list them.  Most likely there's something their plugin does differently than the usual that CbB doesn't expect.  But it could be a system  compatibility issue instead--do they work in any of their listed hosts on your computer?

https://kb.audiomodeling.com/en/c/compatibility/d/what-are-the-hostsdaws-compatible-with-swam-instruments
 

Contact our support if your host/DAW is not listed here or if you experience some unexpected behavior.

Free hosts

On Windows:

Camelot FREE version

Cantabile Lite

VSTHost

SaviHost

Chainer

 

Professional Hosts/DAWs

On Windows:

Camelot Pro

Reaper

Cubase

Pro Tools

Vienna Ensemble Pro

Ableton Live

Digital Performer

Bitwig

Studio One

Reason 9.5

FL Studio

NI Komplete Kontrol

GigPerformer

LiveProfessor

Finale

Sibelius

Thanks. I suppose I could try and test it on one of these. I use CW but just to test it, I guess I could try protools.

 

Jono

[jono grant]

Curious if anyone has tried Swam inside Cakewalk? I notice my CPU and disk is barely being used, yet it acts as though it's using every possible resource. 

Curious about midi settings that might affect it>

[Amberwolf]

 

1 hour ago, jono grant said:

Curious if anyone has tried Swam inside Cakewalk? I notice my CPU and disk is barely being used, yet it acts as though it's using every possible resource. 

Some OS versions don't assign programs to use all the cpu cores.   If you have a lot of cores but CbB is only allowed to use one of them, or the plugin can only use one because of it's design, it might show a low overall cpu usage in the system, but still have maxed out the core it's actually on. 

 

1 hour ago, jono grant said:

Curious about midi settings that might affect it>

 

I don't think any of the midi settings have anything to do with cpu usage control; that should be all in the OS itself.

 

Audio settings, especially those in your audio driver itself (outside CbB) would affect CPU usage, as lower latency requires more CPU to move more chunks of data more frequently.