Orren Merton <orren@l...> wrote: > With my buffers set at 64 samples, this song would simply not play. At > 64 samples and low latency the song seemed to be playing at varispeed, > way slow and with lots of crackles (and peaked the meter regularly). > With low latency off and audio priority set to high, the song played > back normally, but there were still a couple peaks that caused audio > dropouts. Even setting the preload to 6 seconds (the maximum allowed) > the song simply would not play back at all. At 128 samples, however, > even with Low Latency checked, the song ran at 50% CPU. From these > results, I'm not sure if 64 sample recording is feasible in anything > but a very small project using Cubase SX3 on a Macintosh. I'm assuming > that its PC ASIO results would be better, however. Hiya Orren I just installed SX3, and tried the "Blofeld" demo - looks like they have some Ian Fleming fans at Steinberg ;-). Anyway, you might be interestd to know, the results I got were similar - both the "Blofeld" and "Blofeld warped" demos play fine at 128 samples, but with 64, a steady stream of clicks makes itself apparent, and seriously perturbs my (or anyones) listening pleasure :-/. This on a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz machine with 1 Gig RAM, with an RME Hammerfall 9652 (the original, not the newer DSP model). I can try it on a Toshiba L/T - also a P 4 2.8, with a fireface or multiface, but I wouldn't be surprised if the results will be the same .... So, the good news in a sense is, this one isolated test might indicate that Cubase is not so optimized for PC ASIO as opposed to OSX, but, of course, one single test is hardly conclusive. I would like to know what sort of machine Steinberg recommend to play their Demos at very low latency ;-). cheers Mark