Edirol Super quartet

[Verraes]

Hi,

I have recorded some midi tracks (5) with my equinox synthesiser in nuendo. No I always try to send the output of the 5 tracks to the edirol super quartet. I succeed in it. But when I play the tracks (or one of them) they are always played irregular by the super quartet. I 've already tried to increase the buffer size. I know the super quartet needs a lot of processing but I think the processing capabilities of my computer are not that low (pentium 4, 2,8 ghz).
Has anyone some advice for me?

Thanks,

Steven Verraes (Belgium)

[ssscientist]

Did you turn the Equinox synth off or take it out of the audio path when trying to move the midi tracks over to the Super Quartet? If not, you are trying to run two large resource-hungry soft synths at once and that's a sure perscription for sound problems.

Also, the problem may be caused by what's frequently the weakest link in a computer recording chain - the USB interface. My good ol' Tascam US-122 is a USB 1.1 device and is about to be replaced because it is the source of a crackly bottleneck in my system...

[Verraes]

Thanks,

I' ve tried but it doesn't seem to work. In my chain I'm not using anywhere an usb interface. I dont know there also exist an super quartet hardware midi device but I'm using the super quartet software and I'm using it as an vst instrument in nuendo?

Thanks,
Steven

[ssscientist]

Originally Posted by Verraes

I'm using the super quartet software and I'm using it as an vst instrument in nuendo?

I understand your problem and how you are using the super quartet soft synth.

Try adding the midi tracks one at a time. If your system plays the first one thru the super quartet, add the second one. If it plays that one add the third. That way you will know if your system is up to the task of handling five instances of super quartet at once.

Also Tracktion and Sonar both allow the user to 'freeze' individual sequencer tracks thus greatly relieving the load on the CPU. If Nuendo has this feature it may solve your problem...

[Toki987]

just a thought...
check the master module in SQ and see if you have the polyphony set too low and the modules are fighting over midi note usage, I'd set it to maximum.
Turn off the reverb and chorus if you are using any other effectsd on your system.