Song Latency Issues (SoniqWare PE-1 VST)

I hope I haven’t missed something but I have just upgraded my licence V1.0 to V2.0 to the new V2.1 release candidate and the latency difference between versions is making the program completely unusable…

I mean there is literally a 2 second gap between pressing play and the music starting…

When you go from 1 soloed track to another this delay is also apparent (as in you can still hear the track you have just muted playing for a few seconds…

If I turn off PDC the latency when pressing keys is ok but then playback of the tracks is all over the place…

I hope this is a mistake I am making as I could bear it if I couldn’t use the latest version…

I think you need to give more info, like system specs / midi hardware and such, also soundcard details, settings should be handy to determine whats wrong!

Are you using some plugins that cause huge delays?
Go to ‘View - Show PDC Info…’ and see if you can find something.

Hey Robb,

don’t panic.

As the others said: Lets try to find out which VST causes this huge latency. The easiest way is to hit the “Show PDC Info…” in the “View” menu in Renoise. This does not happen with every song, just the one you are currently working on? Same thing should happen with Renoise 2.0 though…

I feel really stupid…

I went straight back into Renoise after reading the replies to this thread (which are most welcome) and there wasn’t a problem at all…

The only thing I can think of is that this afternoon I had Windows Live Messenger running in the background (which I only started using again the other day) and this must have been causing extra strain on my cpu…

Thanks once again for all your help!!

Sorry to carry on…

SoniqWare PE-1 does cause a problem, it shows the info below:

Device(‘VST: SoniqWare: PE-1’) -> 32768 Samples (743.04 ms)

I am guessing that this is not right, lol…

Well it gives you over 7 seconds of time to jam your next note in :P

0.7 sec (not 7), but thats still a lot for a simple EQ. I guess you can easily replace this VST, can’t you?

If you’ve used multiple instances of this VST, this also explains the 2 secs delay, or probably the 0.7 simply felt like 2?

Yeah I do have another parametric eg (with notch which is why I bought the SoniqWare) but the display is really small…

If anyone has any recommendations for a good parametric eq then I would be most grateful…

Now, back to making music!!

Thanks everyone for your help…

I need coffee :panic: