TopicPosted on 06/08/2019 at 03:52:04Popping etc when using software instruments and effects
Hi all, I know this is a common question, I have tried all the usual things but cannot resolve it.
I recently bought a Focusrite 18i8 but can't stop "popping" and drops in audio when using any software instruments/effects.
I previously had a PCI Creative sound card that was designed for gaming rather than music and never had this issue so I assume it is the fact that I have switched to USB. I used to be able to run multiple VST instruments/effects at the same time with no issue but now I cannot even run one without this happening.
I have tried a number of things such as changing power settings, disabling on board sound, giving priority to background services, disabling other things (lan etc) and nothing has made any difference.
I have the most recent version of focusrite control installed too.
Setting the buffer size to a higher number helps but only seems to really make a difference if I increase it to 1024 at which point I get some obvious latency.
I did also try ASIO4All as that was suggested elsewhere but that messed up my audio inputs.
I'm running Windows 10 on an i7 computer with 16GB RAM.