Pulsar II, Windows 98, Cubase VST 5.0

cjw296 · Post by **cjw296** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 4:42 am

Hi,

Setup as follows:
Pulsar II (Software: 2.04a)
Cubase VST 5.0
ASIO latency set as high as possible (25ms @ 44.1k, IIRC)
ASIO source -> Dynamixer -> Pulsar Analog Out

I just got Cubase having finally run out of steam on N-Tracks, which I had
been using. It looks amazing but I'm having nasty problems with ASIO audio
;-(

All I'm trying to do is play the Quickstart Demo Song in Cubase having set
it up as per the manual.
Occasionally during play and often when I hit the stop button on the
transport bar, I loose ASIO audio completely. No error messages, but
sometimes the levels in the dynamixer stay fixed right up around 0dB.

The only way I can sort it out is to close down Cubase, then the Pulsar app
and then load them up again. It looks like this doesn't work sometimes
either so I have to restart the machine

It's just not feasible to be
doing that every 5 minutes

Oh yeah, and even restarting the machine won't solve the problem now. I really can't re-install Cubase every 5 minutes.

Has anyone experienced this? does anyone know what I've forgotten to do?

If I need to provide any more information, please let me know...

Hope you can help...

Chris

algorhythm · Post by **algorhythm** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 6:38 am

is it a non-cracked/authentic version of cubase?

this can be quite frustrating, i know!

start here:
fiddle with your cubase buffer settings, and follow subhumans tips for optimizing: http://planetz.ghostwheel.com/phpBB2/vi ... &forum=3&6

do you have enought ram?
let us know if this helps or not!

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cjw296 · Post by **cjw296** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 7:11 am

Not cracked, all-new-£240's-worth-dongle-included

As for RAM, I dunno, is 512Mb enough for the demo song?

I got further myself by checking the 'Play in background' option, once I found it, the Pulsar manual is out of date on this. What does this do?

I also whacked the buffers up miles (288kb per channel or something) which seems ot have helped some.

I also found the Performance monitor is cubase

It seems that this happens when the CPU goes above about 40% usage.

That seems odd, but maybe Cubase is picking up the fact that I've got a Dual PIII-550 machine? Of course, I can only use one of 'em thanks to Creamware's tardiness in getting Win2K drivers out, so if this is the case, I'd expect to be 'bottoming out' at around 50%.

Does any of this make sense?

Chris

PS: Thanks for the help, it's nice to know there are people listening

cjw296 · Post by **cjw296** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 7:16 am

PPS: The Karlette Aux Effect seems a sure fire way to cause this to happen. Is it broken or just extremely processor hungry?

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 7:37 am

"Play in background" means that cubase will play the wav files while u work on something else. ie: u want to change settings on a pulsar synth, but everytime u switch to pulsar, VST would stop sounding.
Having the "Play in background" option check solves this problem.

cjw296 · Post by **cjw296** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 11:03 am

thanks for the explanation

algorhythm · Post by **algorhythm** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 12:15 pm

512 is plenty - sounds like you will be set with win2k drivers!

try those optimization tips in the meantime!

cjw296 · Post by **cjw296** » Sun Jul 01, 2001 4:30 am

Will do, cheers

Just to stress this for all the people who bitch about Creamware and the Pulsar, I consider this problem to have been totally within Cubase and nothing to do with the Pulsar whatsoever...

cheers,

Chris