Too many asio outputs slowing system down

lion_cub

Hi,

I am a musician and I recently installed the kx project.

When I run Psycle with full asio support, I get a huge CPU load and the sound crackles really badly. I have read most of the documentation and have searched for ways to disable unused asio outputs. I don't think it is possible to do this in Psycle. Does anyone know if I can disable asio outputs in kx ?

Many thanks

dj_stick

n 3538 you have the option of setting the amount of ASIO ins and outs in the kX control panel

lion_cub

Thanks dj_stick, I will download version 3538 and investigate this function.

lion_cub

Well, I took your advice and reduced the asio ins and outs to 2, hoping to solve the problem. However, as much as I appreciate the extra efficiency I have gained, it has not solved my problem.

As soon as I try changing the output back to directsound, everything runs smoothly again. (Btw, some of my compositions use soundfonts no greater than 25 mb).

I am using sblive card on winXP with 320 ram.

I wonder if it's simply a fact that I need more ram ?

I really like the kx project and I don't want to abandon it yet. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thanks

TravelRec.

DirectSound is no alternative solution to ASIO due to only a stereo pair of input and output capability, so try to use ASIO @ a decent latency of 10 to 20ms and tune your system to it´s best performance (deactivate unnecessary gimmics an give background tasks a higher priority). kX ASIO runs very well on slower machines like mine in the sig. Aaahh, don´t forget to switch to kX ASIO in your application and set it to 48kHz!