QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Jul 15 2016, 01:33 AM)
It sounds like your machine may be underpowered if you are getting latency when you raise the buffer size. Each time you add BIAS to a track, it taxes the CPU quite a bit. There is a noise gate built in to bias which can help a bit. But honestly, the easiest way I've found to avoid these problems is to simply get a Mac
I'm not saying buy a crazy expensive new one. I recently bought a very used 2012 mac laptop for around $500. It has a quad core i7 processor and upgraded to 16 GB of ram ) ram is cheap) and upgraded to a 1tb SSD hard drive (Those are cheap now too). It's fast as Hell and I can take the buffer down to 32 samples with no problem using bias on 12 tracks. I"m using a USB 2.0 interfaces (not even usb 3) from iconnectivity that's also pretty cheap.
The mac laptops from 2012 have a thunderbolt port that can connect to multi port hubs that contain USB 3.0. I bought one and have attached a cheap USB 3 drive and the drive if triple as fast as my previous fastest external drive that cost 4 times as much ( a firewire 800 G Tech Raid) But start slow. Just a mid or late 2012 macbook pro with a quad i7.
It's the centerpiece of my entire home studio and I record video via firewire while recording 4 tracks of live audio at 32 samples and it doesn't complain. Smooth as silk
For about the same price as a mid level windows laptop. With something called BOOTCAMP (comes with your mac) you can even install WINDOWS on your mac and boot to windows just like you do now if you like.
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do you know if i can get all my reaper files (many finished drum tracks ) to reaper on the mac
QUOTE (Rammikin @ Jul 12 2016, 04:57 AM)
That's unlikely. When you monitor your input level, is reasonably strong? It should be somewhere around -5dB. The fact that it changes with buffer size makes it sounds like a problem in Bias. Is it a hiss or a buzz? You might try another amp simulator plugin as an experiment to see if the problem is specific to Bias.
2 nd problem , my computer no longer accepts an input from my audiobox interface ( using interface for monitoring only at this point ) - have tried reinstalling everything several times .
There is also noise when running th1 with multiple channels , The less channels i use or the greater the buffer size and the noise goes away
Also installed interface and bias on kids computer in stand alone mode ( way under powered compared to mine ), works fine
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This post has been edited by jstcrsn: Jul 15 2016, 08:30 PM