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ThePrettyRyan
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First of all, this is my first post on this forum. I've browsed it a lot, and found it to be very helpful so I figured I should definitely sign up. I'm going to apologize in advance or my lack of knowledge with recording and with computers in general, as this may be a poorly asked (or just really stupid) question.
For Christmas, I got a Focusrite Saffire Pro24 and some mics with the intent of working on recording some of my solo stuff, along with trying to record an EP for my band. I could ramble on further with my experience with it this far and whatever, but I'll try and get to the point. I never even thought about checking the input/output buffer size until I tried singing along to a song to test the quality, and noticed the huge delay after I listened to it. I assumed that I could just adjust my input and output buffer sizes to 512 samples and forget about it... apparently I was wrong.
When I tried changing my buffer sizes to anything under 1000 (and something) samples, I'd get immense amounts of cracks/pops/distortion, and I immediately just assumed that it was that my processor couldn't handle it. After a call to my local computer tech, he said that this definitely isn't a hardware problem, and suggested a few tweaks that I could make to my system. I changed a few things that he suggested, and I've managed to get my buffer sizes to 700 (and something), but that still isn't as low as I'd like.
I've attached a screenshot of the specs of my computer (since I really don't know what to list), and if it makes a difference, I'm using Ableton Live 7.0.3.
Sorry for the lengthy post, guys. Thanks for reading!
I've found a solution! Just to help out anyone else who may be having this problem, I downloaded the ASIO driver, and used it for the driver type in the Ableton preferences.
For Christmas, I got a Focusrite Saffire Pro24 and some mics with the intent of working on recording some of my solo stuff, along with trying to record an EP for my band. I could ramble on further with my experience with it this far and whatever, but I'll try and get to the point. I never even thought about checking the input/output buffer size until I tried singing along to a song to test the quality, and noticed the huge delay after I listened to it. I assumed that I could just adjust my input and output buffer sizes to 512 samples and forget about it... apparently I was wrong.
When I tried changing my buffer sizes to anything under 1000 (and something) samples, I'd get immense amounts of cracks/pops/distortion, and I immediately just assumed that it was that my processor couldn't handle it. After a call to my local computer tech, he said that this definitely isn't a hardware problem, and suggested a few tweaks that I could make to my system. I changed a few things that he suggested, and I've managed to get my buffer sizes to 700 (and something), but that still isn't as low as I'd like.
I've attached a screenshot of the specs of my computer (since I really don't know what to list), and if it makes a difference, I'm using Ableton Live 7.0.3.
Sorry for the lengthy post, guys. Thanks for reading!
I've found a solution! Just to help out anyone else who may be having this problem, I downloaded the ASIO driver, and used it for the driver type in the Ableton preferences.
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