Hi all,
I’ve noticed a pretty nasty bit of lag/latency/slow performance when running ANA with Ableton live.
Say I’m trying to fine tune the sound while Ableton is looping in the background with ANA launched in the foreground, my mouse is incredibly sluggish to move, clicks and actions performed take a few seconds to react making small adjustments very hard. It’s not a CPU issue as far as I can tell as my CPU sits around 40-50% in Ableton.
For contrast, opening a brand new live set and running ANA is perfectly smooth. But even in sets with just a few audio/midi layers or some effects on the ANA sound it slows to a crawl. When I pause/stop the looping in the background, there is about a 5-10 second delay and the lag disappears and it runs smoothly again. However this is very annoying to make changes to the synth while not playing the sound I’m working with!
Is anyone else having this difficulty?
I’m on Windows 7, 4gb ram, 2.4ghz AMD quad core. ANA is version 1.03.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
If you are using the motherboard built in soundcard you will generally have issues with latency.
you can try the direct x driver in your audio settings which can reduce it.
or try ASIO4ALL
Best option is to get a proper soundcard designed for music production
Thanks for the response. I do have a Creative SB X-Fi sound card, though I imagine it’s not the greatest for this kind of work, I only get this lag with ANA, Massive and Sylenth are fine.
Thoughts?
is the lag happening with keyboard input or with other controls?