Renoise doesn’t get alongwith my pc configuration or these vst instrument…
Multiple strings or strumming instrument are nearly impossible to play together.
CPU usage starts increasing until sound breaks…
I’m using a creative xfi xtrememusic.
Creative ASIO driver, ASIO4all & steinberg generic low latency ASIO driver have been
checked. Steinberg ASIO driver produces the best results but sound still chops.
I tried to reduce CPU usage by upgrading RAM from 8 to 16Gb and the hard drive to SSD,
but still the same
If your VST plugins are all synth plugins, i would check how much CPU resources they draw, if you have multiple instances of Synth vst plugins that all require a certain amount of CPU, LOLFail’s tip might do the trick, but also only until your CPU hits the ceiling.
But i would in that case also expect you to have experienced Renoise autopanicing because of crossing a CPU threshold there (default is 80% and over).
How much latency do you set it? Increasing audio buffers might really do the trick here. If no ASIO driver is able to produce satisfactory results, the audiocard simply doesn’t has the juice to cut it for the latency settings you have currently set it to.
And even though Creative is not the cheapest brand, imho: they produce audiocards merely for games, but not music production.
I assume you have alreay tried tweaking the sample buffer setting (which you have now set to 2048, which may be a bit too much so I would try lowering it). anyway, don’t expect super performances with ASIO4ALL, as it is another level of abstraction over the communication between your soundcard and Renoise, which is exactly the opposite of what ASIO was intended for.
any decent modern soundcard which supports ASIO should be able to perform better with its proprietary ASIO diverse instead of ASIO4ALL.
as I told you privately, I can’t give you any suggestion regarding the currently available soundcards, since my one is rather old, but I think that any new device should be good, as long it is not Firewire and possibly not USB too
bad performances can also be caused by the way you create your songs. which may go against the concept of multiprocessor use in Renoise: see https://forum.renoise.com/t/multicore-faq/19732 for more information regarding this
try removing one heavy plugin at a time, saving your project as a new name. could be a plugin.
also, there are 2 settings that are important in asio4all, kernel buffer or hardware buffer. at some point, asio4all has not been working so well for me so i just stopped using it, but i do recall one of those modes working better than the other, and i think it varies.
lower your latency in asio4all to 512 or 1024 like IT Alien said. Then try the different buffer modes, moving the sliders. anything different? worse or better?
Like IT Alien said, try to get the Creative ASIO driver
do you have it installed? the latest driver appears to be this one, released on 28 mar 14:
Filnamn : SBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004.exe
This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows® support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series of audio devices. This software includes support for Windows 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit). For more details, read the rest of this web release note.
This download supports the following audio devices only:
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Added Features or Enhancements:
Multiple fixes that improve the driver’s overall stability and performance.
Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 8.1 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows 8 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows Vista® 32-bit or 64-bit with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2004 or later
Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above
Notes:
Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.
To install this driver
Download theSBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004.exefile onto your local hard disk.
what does steinbergs ASIO have to do with a creative card? where did you get that?
I have googled this issue for you, and I have read that the creative ASIO driver is in the latest creative sound card driver for your soundcard.
have you installed the latest (march 2014) driver for your creative sound card? This is the filename, which you should be able to find on google, at the creative website. SBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004.exe
uninstall every asio driver except creative’s driver, uninstall asio4all, install the latest driver for your creative sound card, restart your computer, set up your audio device in renoise preferences.
about the multicore support, this is the tricky part:
Renoise has to split your song int “independent streams” that the CPUs can then handle separately. In complex songs with a lot of send tracks and devices this limits the sharing capabilities a bit, which means that the performance is not very well balanced.
if I have understood you well, you are testing using always the same song. this song may be designed so that only one of your CPU cores gets used (you could use Windows’ Task Manager in order to check this).
anyway, there seems to be some driver issue with your current setup (assuming that your song is actually light enough to be played with your PC). in such case, it is of course very hard for us to help you other than giving you general tips as the other users have already done above
