Just to follow up... My install disks say v1.05, so I presume that's what I had before I upgraded to 1.06. Updating VI and my video drivers made no difference - I'm still hearing the crackling in Universal mode when playing a sustained note and moving the mod wheel, but only when the VI window is open.
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Do you have a two-screen setup? I use a Matrox G500 with two screens, and quite often get crackling when something on the secondary screen changes or when I move windows between the screens. Could it be something like that?
Cheers,
David
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No, I only use a single monitor, so I'm afraid that's not it. I tried disabling hardware acceleration, lowering resolution and bit depth, to no avail. Short of buying a new video card (which I'm not going to do until I'm sure it would solve the issue), I'm not sure what else I can do on my end. Fortunately, it's not a showstopping problem, as I don't typically leave the VI windows open for long (with my limited screen real estate). Still, I'll provide what info I can think of to help the devs solve the problem.
I don't think I'm experiencing the same thing you are David. It's more like Sapkiller described. Easiest way to reproduce this: Play a note with Orchestra Violins Universal Matrix with mod wheel all the way down. If I fiddle with the mod wheel while the VI window is up, then I get breakups of the audio stream when I cross control boundaries. If the VI window is closed, then no such distortion occurs. Based on what sk said, I also tried different crossing speeds, and can confirm that it only clicks when you move the mod wheel somewhat quickly across boundaries. Moving very slowly seems to eliminate the pops.
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Sapkiller,
I had similar issues on one of my slaves and I went into BIOS and 'disabled' hyperthreading on that PC. Someone told me that VSTACK does not support it (HT).
Turned it off and no pops/clicks. Helped here.
Rob
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@Sapkiller said:
Txh james - nice to know one's not alone with this matter.
It maybe a Sonar issue with VST plugins ( would'nt be the first time )
Maybe we can get our logic and cubase friends to try out the procedure?
And also other Sonar folks?
This way we may get a clearer picture.
Actually, it would be the first time for me. I have a couple other commercial VST plugins, and this is the first time I've seen any sort of compatibility problem.
It definitely looks like some sort of Sonar compatibility issue, because I can't reproduce this in standalone mode, and we have fairly different hardware configurations (I have dual Intel Xeons). I'll make some work of reporting this over on the Sonar forums.
On a somewhat related topic, I actually have Sonar 6 Producer ordered and on the way, which has native VST support instead of a DXi wrapper. That gives me some hope that this issue might go away.
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Sapkiller,
I had similar issues on one of my slaves and I went into BIOS and 'disabled' hyperthreading on that PC. Someone told me that VSTACK does not support it (HT).
Turned it off and no pops/clicks. Helped here.
Rob
Don't think that is a problem with Sonar - it supports both multithreaded and multiprocessor operations.
But thx anyway
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well, I've had problems with DFR Superior (graphics and pops, which is partly a well known issue) in Sonar, so its not the first time for me.
Hope you're right about Sonar 6 though - although I was under the, apparently wrong, impression that VST is native in the Sonar 5.
And you're right: pops are not an issue in standalone mode.
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@Sapkiller said:
well, I've had problems with DFR Superior (graphics and pops, which is partly a well known issue) in Sonar, so its not the first time for me.
Hope you're right about Sonar 6 though - although I was under the, apparently wrong, impression that VST is native in the Sonar 5.
And you're right: pops are not an issue in standalone mode.
Well, I just got Sonar 6 installed tonight, and it made no difference. I'm still hearing the exact same problem.
I don't suppose anyone at VSL can let me know if they can reproduce this issue?