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Old 08-15-2018, 05:36 AM   #1
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Default [5.941] Audio dropouts with 8 instances of Europa VST at 48 KHz/24-bit [SOLVED]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Europa by Reason VST from https://www.propellerheads.se/downlo...ropa-by-reason
2. Launch Reaper
3. Configure to use ASIO driver with 48000 Hz, 24-bit, 128 samples buffer size
4. Add 8 instances of Europa VST with Record Armed for all 8 instances
5. Mash the MIDI keyboard with your hand repeatedly pressing down 10 notes at a time.

Expected result:
No audio dropouts.

Actual result:
Audio dropouts. If you do the same thing in Ableton Live 10.0.2, Bitwig Studio 2.3.5 or Propellerhead Reason 10.2.2d1 you don't get any audio dropouts.

Software:
Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.191)
Reaper 5.941 64-bit

Hardware:
Intel Core i7 7700HQ CPU
32GB DDR4-2400 RAM
RME Babyface Pro (driver version 1.164)

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Old 08-15-2018, 06:11 AM   #2
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Check out Reaper's performance meter, what's the RT CPU on it?

Record arming tracks places them all on one CPU core for processing, I am assuming you're probably pushing that one core over the edge. Do you have live FX multiprocessing enabled in Preferences->Audio->Buffering?
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Old 08-15-2018, 06:17 AM   #3
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Performance Meter
cur/avg: 8.77/3.78% range: 0.2-13.3%
Total CPU: 8.8%
RT CPU: 62.5%
9 FX: 8.08% CPU
Europa by Reason 1.04%
Europa by Reason 1.01%
Europa by Reason 1.01%
Europa by Reason 1.00%
Europa by Reason 1.00%
Europa by Reason 1.01%
Europa by Reason 1.00%
Europa by Reason 1.01%

Allow live FX multiprocessing was unchecked (default).
After checking it, it works fine.
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Old 08-15-2018, 06:57 AM   #4
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There you have it.

Also IIRC 7700HQ is a laptop CPU, do you have laptop's power options set to High Performance, disabled core parking, disabled SpeedStep so that frequency of the CPU doesn't change dynamically (that one REALLY kills audio performance of the machine)?
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Old 08-15-2018, 06:58 AM   #5
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Yes I have done all that.
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Old 08-15-2018, 07:52 AM   #6
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In any case pretty weird to start getting crackles before RT CPU is at over 90%...
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Old 08-16-2018, 03:24 AM   #7
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Intel HD Graphics tends to interfere with USB when rendering graphics due to it using the system RAM and there is nothing you can do about it on most laptops (it is always enabled when NVIDIA Optimus is present as the LCD and monitor ports are connected to it).

USB also has CPU overhead compared to PCI/PCIe/Thunderbolt/Firewire which can use DMA for transferring data without using up CPU resources.
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Old 08-18-2018, 07:54 PM   #8
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Quote:
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In any case pretty weird to start getting crackles before RT CPU is at over 90%...
Not necessarily, the RT longest-block indicator is a better predictor of crackles...
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Old 08-18-2018, 10:11 PM   #9
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Just curious:
What easts that much RT CPU, if all FXes are that low % ?

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