I've just bought two packets of Vienna Ensemble 3 (6 licenses in total) for my 6 Shuttle Mini XPC X100-HA.
I've also finished setting up a large (for me!) orchestral template using six instances of VE3 inside Cubase 5. Trying to test the efficiency of my system I created a "tuning orchestra" project just to fastly create 8 bars where ALL instruments play along to each other.
Now... the problem I'm experiencing is that when I activate ALL the tracks, the audio is completely filled by clicks and pops, even though the music plays continously without interruptions or breaks.
The strange facts are:
- Cubase's ASIO meter is stable at around 10%, regardless the number of tracks playing back: it's there from the moment I open a new project using the orchestral template and it doesn't change during playback, with only one track in solo or with the entire project running
- the CPU used by the HOST PC is about 12-15% during playback; the CPU of each SLAVE is around 5-10%
- the network bandwidth used by the HOST is about 12%; the net-bw used by each slave is about 5-10%
- when I playback in SOLO mode ALL the tracks coming from a single Slave, no clicks or pops are audible
I presume it could be some kind of network optimization on the Host (as the last point above tells that there are no problems in each slave), but I don't know where operate.
Do you know where I can find a guide about how to optimize my Host for Vienna Ensemble 3? Does it exist?
Any help is much appreciated!
HOST: Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus (chipset nForce 650i) + Intel Core2Duo E6600 + 8 GB + Dual Gigabit + 2 x GeForce 7600GT + Windows Vista Home Premum 64 bit + Cubase 5
SLAVE: Shuttle mini XPC X100-HA + Intel Core2Duo T5600 + 2 GB + Windows XP Home Edition
Thanks.
Luigi.