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OK, here's what is working, for now. For ref I am using the presets Muppet Dungeon and Hot Mess (oh, the names) and a few others as testers. I changed the driver from the Focusrite one to ASIO4ALL. That shaved a few m/s off of latency but didn't do much for the glitching. I went into the Reaper buffer settings and changed Thread Priority to "Time Critical" and Behavior to "15 - Very Aggressive". Much better. The final piece of the puzzle was to raise the ASIO buffer size from 512 to 1024. Now everything sounds as it should, and latency is 22 in/out, which is what it was when I started. I am pretty goddamn pleased about all of this. Really glad I can use Reaper, which looks like Garage Band, which is pretty much the level at which I interact with DAWs. I downloaded the Ableton demo and couldn't even figure out how to open a frickin' VST.
Next stop - scala files
All, sorry to reopen an old thread but I am dealing with this myself right now. The crunching is occasionally present with two voices, persistent with three and very persistent with four. For reference, I am running Windows 10, Reaper 5.04, and whatever the latest version of Aalto is. I'm using a FocusRite Scarlett Solo soundcard, and I have a recently purchased fast PC, i7 with 16 GB. I'm convinced it's not a CPU usage problem, as Reaper shows approx. 5% CPU usage. Buffer size is currently 512, which results in an already-shitty latency of 22 ms in/out, although I ran it up to whatever the highest buffer setting is and the crunch didn't go away. I am about to spend some quality time crawling under the hood of Reaper and meddling with the buffer and latency settings, so if anyone has got Reaper running and working well with Aalto could you be so kind as to post what settings are working for you? I'll do the same when I get this resolved. Thanks!
Hi, total beginner here, sorry to everyone who has to read this. I'm using Reaper and I just downloaded the demo for Aalto. I had to manually move it to c:vstplugins to even get it to show up as an option in Reaper. Now I've got it open, which is great; it's beautiful, and I almost fainted from happiness when I saw the key selector and all the gamelan options therein. Problem: no presets, just Aalto Default. I've downloaded all the presets, they're sitting there in VST Plugins, but not showing up. Help!
Incidentally if I should not be using Reaper but instead another free or cheap DAW let me know. I really want to be using Aalto more than anything else. I paid for Sonar and hate it to hell, and that pretty much ate my DAW budget, but if you have any recommendations for a sub-$100 DAW that will work like automatically with Aalto let me know. Has to be easy to use, which Reaper seems to be.
And I'm on Windows, if that wasn't obvious.
Thanks!
I uninstalled and then reinstalled, and everything is there. Awesome. Really appreciate the support. Seems to be working well with Rapture although there's some crunching indicating that I may have a buffering issue ... but I can probably figure that out. Thanks for the help.