Greetings Planetz,
I am a London-based music producer and have recently assembled a powerful audio workstation based on the Athlon MP / AMD Chipset (see below). I had been using my Pulsar2s simply as IO on an older system due to CPVs but was looking forward to reclaim my investment with SFP 3.1.
I am not willing to compromise my 'single session' methodology (which led to a large increase in my productivity), therefore XTC mode is a natural choice.
I removed one of the CPUs and reinstalled Windows XP when I first installed SFP 3.1 to give Creamware its best chance on this platform. Installation was smooth, and (apart from the many minor bugs) the software worked well in 'fusion' mode. PCI performance was not good, but acceptable, giving me stability with 32 ASIO inputs and outputs plus 2 Masterverbs, or 2 ASIO IOs and 3 Masterverbs.
Unfortunately, although XTC plugins seem to operate correctly and produce no error messages, they always introduce a stuttering into the audio they process. This does not seem like a PCI problem to me but a bug as it occurs on the insertion of the first synth / plugin.
Has anybody else experienced this? Does anyone know of PCI tweaks for my platform?
I would appreciate no 'I told you so', 'should'a gone for Intel' answers. Each musician chooses his own tools. I would love to use the Pulsar synths, but could not sacrifice the awesome power of this native system.
Cheers,
AutoSapien
2x Athlon XP 2100+
Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW (AMD 762/768)
512MB RAM Samsung ECC Reg
2x Seagate Barracuda 80Gb
Gainward Geforce4 750
2x LG 17" TFT
Enermax Whipser Quiet 400W PSU
2x Zalman Flowers, MB, GPU coolers and fans
Coolermaster ATC 201
Windows XP Pro, Logic Audio Platinum 5, Waves Platinum Bundle, Reaktor
SFP 3.1 problem: Pulsar2, AMD Chipset and XTC mode stuttered
You should have a fun system for CW. Still some questions for troubleshooting:
-What's your latency? Try setting higher latency for more fluent, but more off-time audio.
-Do you have other VST hosts, with I/O? Fruityloops won't do, it doesn't work for me and others.
-Try reducing video cycles by reducing screen bitdepth to 16bit if it's set higher, or by removing mixers from the screen. VU's eat lots of processing power/bandwidth.
-Does the same happen when you don't play audio tracks but VST instruments, or load loops into memory (instead of long wav files)? Try eliminating your disk drives bandwidth usage.
I don't have Logic, so this is only standard troubleshooting. Also, XTC is not a real priority to most of us, standard mode is much more common, for the reasons of your problem. Good luck.
-What's your latency? Try setting higher latency for more fluent, but more off-time audio.
-Do you have other VST hosts, with I/O? Fruityloops won't do, it doesn't work for me and others.
-Try reducing video cycles by reducing screen bitdepth to 16bit if it's set higher, or by removing mixers from the screen. VU's eat lots of processing power/bandwidth.
-Does the same happen when you don't play audio tracks but VST instruments, or load loops into memory (instead of long wav files)? Try eliminating your disk drives bandwidth usage.
I don't have Logic, so this is only standard troubleshooting. Also, XTC is not a real priority to most of us, standard mode is much more common, for the reasons of your problem. Good luck.
