Hello,
in July I wrote a post regarding this problem. Shortly after that I thought I found a solution when setting up static IP-Adresses. I couldn´t prove that for a long time because shortly after that I had to move my studio to a different place and now there´s the same problem as before. It doesn´t seem that it depends on Ip-Adress-Issues.
When I play on my Masterkeyboard on the iMac/Logic with VE Pro an LAN-connected-Instance of Play 3 on VE Pro Server 64 on the PC I get a stuttering sound.
I´m sure my Hardware cannot be the reason for this problem:
Host: iMac i7 mid 2010, 8 GB Ram, Logic 9.1.4 + VE Pro 4 (Version 4.1.8861)
Slave: PC, i7 990x, Mainboard: Asrock x58 Extreme 6 (6x SATA3), 24 GB RAM Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600
1x 128 GB SSD Crucial M4 Host-Drive on SATA3 Windows 7 64 Bit + VE PRO 4 (Version 4.1.8861)
5x 256 GB SSD Crucial M4 Sample-Drives on SATA3, only PLAY 3 Libraries (splitted): Complete Composers Collection, Hollywood Strings Diamond, Hollywood Brass Diamond
The Monitors are connected via RME Fireface UFX via USB to the iMAC
What I already tried:
- I already tried different combinations of Buffersettings in Logic and the VE Pro Instance in the iMac-Host - this didn´t help.
- I searched again on EW-Community and VSL-Community and read all new Threads and couldn´t find any answer.
- I tried out different Samplerates (44100/48000/etc) in Logic, different Buffersizes (32 - up to 512 /1024) in Logic, different Latency Buffers in VE Pro AU PlugIn (none/1 Buffer/ 2 Buffers), different Threadnumbers for one VE Pro Instance on SlavePC, different Voice-SetUps in Play in VE Pro on SlavePC, at least I connected Mac and PC via LAN without switch: but all this didn´t help. (I´m using the Ethernet-Switch because the Euphonix MC Mix and MC Control need a LAN-Connection to the iMac too. Its a TEG-S5g (5-Port, 10,100,1000gBit) I can´t check the LAN-cable-type..)
- At East West Support Forum someone wrote that he had to decrease the Audio-Buffersize below 128. I tried this but the exact opposite happens when I modify the I/O Buffersize in Logic Preferences/Audio/CoreAudio from 1024 to 64 and 32: The sound changes for the worse, the more I decrease the more it sounds more staccato-alike instead of clean. (Even if I modify the other Options like VE Pro Buffer Latency):
At 32 to 256 it´s stuttering like Snownoise from more to less.
At 512 there is a nearly clean sample sound quality and after 4-5 seconds there´s a short pause about 1 second in between the sample = slow stuttering.
At 1024 there is nearly no pause and for the most part a clean sample sound. After a while it begins to stutter again.
- I´m using a RME Fireface UFX connected with USB 2.0 on iMac for Audio-Monitoring. Even when I use the iMac Speakers without the RME Fireface UFX the problem persists. So the RME Fireface UFX cannot be the Bottleneck in the whole Hardware-Setup.Did I forget to modify an option in VE Pro on the Slave PC? What can I do?
thx in advance