Because of work and past necessities, I have 6 or 7 PCs around the home and office, all new-ish, that is including my VST laptop, a work laptop and a backup laptop, plus other non-music related desktop machines, so I tried an experiment. I optimized all of them disabling throttling, etc., (all my machines have things like sleep and hibernation disabled from day one) and ran LatencyMon on all of them, just to see what it would say. The tests all ran for upwards of 3-4 hours, during idle time. Guess what, NOT ONE of the machines was deemed suitable to work with real time audio, and we’re talking one i9-13900 with 64GB, two i9-12900 with 64GB and an i7-10750 with 32GB, running at 2-60 to 3.20 Hz. In short, even if you wanted faster machines than these, you couldn’t find them - on the consumer market at least. So what can possibly help? Does it even make sense to check machines like this?
I’m still on Intel Gen 10, I vaguely remember people complaining the newer chips despite blazing speed in general weren’t doing any better at audio. What USB audio interface are you using? RME Babyface’s are always mentioned as the ultimate low latency performers. I just use a Behringer UMC202HD or IK Axe I/O and they are performing fine for Cantabile live and our recording and mixing sessions in Cakewalk, Reaper and Mixbus 10
This is strange, very strange
I have an intel i7 3rd generation and LatencyMon says I can work with real time audio
And I use WASAPI, BTW, not the ASIO of my audio interface
I wouldn’t get too hung up with the results from the Resplendence product. I’m not convinced its reporting valid results and have seen stuff in its “In Depth Latency Tests” that made zero sense.
I just use the Process Lasso performance enhancement manager and inside PL set C4 to “Induce Performance Mode” and call it a day. I’m getting great results on all my machines with it. To me its worth the five seat license price just to save all the time needed to sort out five different machines… They have a full demo for limited time period so you can see if it works for you.
I agree. At the very least your I-9 machines should be fine, even the i-7 should be decent. Maybe try going through Brad’s glitch-free guide completely. Even though you’ve disabled throttling and some other things, there are several other steps you can do to make Cantabile perform better.
I still have an old viao laptop from around 2010, it has an i7 but I don’t remember the model, and only 8 GB RAM, all into a scarlet 2i4 gen 1 interface. In other words, it’s old and slow. It still runs fine, even on songs using samples and kontakt 6, although I do get some hiccups on very complex songs.
Tom