There's a lot of bogus information out there on the internet about optimising your PC for audio production but these tips really work and you will notice a demonstrable improvement in your DAW's performance. Kudos to askdrtk
Omg finally my apollo twin running properly for 30minutes straight for the 1st time in 2 months. i hope it will continue working, thank you so much for these videos, very helpful!!
@@askdrtk I'm going to go through as much of your content as I can over the weekend, but I was wondering if you've anything for my specific situation? I've a YT channel myself and I do EVERYTHING from my Windows 10 PC. I work with Ableton, Blender, Davinci Resolve Studio, After Effects, Fusion (standalone version), Adobe Audition and Photoshop. I use Process Lasso (with minimal understanding why I'm clicking on what you're telling me to click on). Would I be best off simply repeating the steps from this video with each application? Thanks again, you're incredibly helpful.
Looking at the apps you are using, many use ASIO audio drivers for low latency, so they will all benefit from the settings made in PL. The key is to ensure critical real-time processes such as audio and video get priority and are not interrupted by other processes (such as Windows Audio events and poorly written video drivers). Glad to help out, Cheers!
Informative, straight to the point, easy to follow instructions. Well done sir! Excited to see if this helps the issues I've been having! You have earned my sub!
Thank you very much for this vid. I have 3 computers now with windows 11 and all of them have issues with audio crackling. I think there is an issue with W11 and audio. I have usb interfaces but this also occurs using integrated audio. Your steps from the "7" vid did the trick but like you said after a reboot it comes back.
@@askdrtk Thanks for posting this... I was thinking about upgrading, but may hold off... don't want to create headaches. @askdrtk I will wait patiently. Haha
same with a Asus Rog Strix Scar III laptop (i7 9750H, RTX 2070) both one win 10 and win 11... i tried like everything. i'll give it a shot just to see if this fixes it, but it needs to do this every time you reboot?
The idea of Process Lasso is so you don't have to reset priority and affinity after a reboot. Driver issues are a real hassle with so many hardware configurations and every time Microsoft reworks Windows it seems to cause issues with real-time processes such as audio (why I am slow to adopt updates on systems I need for production). Of course this doesn't help with new PCs coming with 11... I hope PL helps out.
Has this video made it to the Presonus people? I also use Studio One and have a Quantum interface. This is the most information I've ever seen regarding computer optimization for Studio One. Process Lasso is a wonderful help, too! Thank you!😀
from long time I search for similar video the options you are show main was off some and some plugins on Waves hit my CPU with 10% load. Excellent video thank so much !
Wow ! Thank you , I hope this will solve the crakling noise I get when recording guitar in Protools. Well you have a new sub here from Quebec ! Thanks again Sir !
@@askdrtk I replid too quick after being on a honeympon ! Tonight I have some crakling and it's bad ! , nothing opened in the background and all my light dimmers are off and the usb cable and port is fine on the card so I might trow everything out the window because I spend more time trying to figure out what's going on with issues than having fun playing guitar through a Marshall amp. Thanks for your help though , I appreciate !
I think ASIO4ALL does also things in your windows settings, after i run cubase with ASIO4ALL the audio service is reset to the normal setting with all CPU's selected. Maybe it overrules that lasso program as well.
It worked! I have a project in works in Bitwig 5. Had problems with clicks and lags, just opened it up, tinkered there quite a bit aaaand no stutters, no delay, nothing! Thank you very much, both of your videos I think are crucial for windows DAW users.
Thanks so much!........I've never heard of this. I'm running Win10 Pro. My CPU is an old intel i7-8700k and 64gb ram. My DAW is Cubase Pro12. I regularly run out of juice with numerous vst instruments running. Sometimes running the buffer at 512 and higher won't even help. I'll give this Lasso a try. I'm curious to see what my settings actually are.
@John Wells - your DAW set up sounds similar to mine. I'm also running Win10 Pro. My CPU is a (2016) - intel i7-6950x @ 3.0 GHz, and 64gb Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM. I'm just curious, what is the brand and speed of your 64gb RAM? My DAW is also Cubase. For my sound card I have a Universal Apollo Quad Silver (Firewire) which I use for some plugins, and that helps reduced the load on my PC and allows me to run more plugins. My motherboard is an ASUS X99 Deluxe ii. Which motherboard are you using? Also - helps to use multiple internal solid state hard drives. I had read articles a while back that it will increase the processing power of a DAW computer by using separate hard drives, such as: *(1)* a separate "System files" hard drive where Windows 10 PRO + and all software, such as Cubase PRO is installed --- (but no audio "samples") *(2)* a separate "Audio Recordings" hard drive for Cubase project files, vocal recordings, guitar recording, and any other "audio recordings", or WAV files. *(3)* multiple separate "Samples" hard drives for instrument VST plugin samples. All hard drives should be solid state. Mine are Samsung Pro and 2 hard drives are the solid state Crucial MX500 4TB. + *M.2* I have some of my large orchestral sample libraries installed on a M.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB
I am running Corsair Vengance 3200 ram. I like to use ram from the QVL for the motherboard which in my case is a Gigabyte B550 Vision D. I chose the board as it have integrated Thunderbolt and is rock solid with my Apollo, Motu, and Quantum interfaces. I went with AMD for this last build as at the time it was a good choice for my overall workflow with includes Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc. Today for a DAW PC I would go with Intel for the slightly higher single thread speed, but in the end with todays CPUs there is plenty of power. Having separate SSDs with as many of them being NVME is great for DAW performance in large sessions with big sample libraries. It follows a similar principle to setting up storage for a video editing PC. Puget systems has a lot of excellent resources on the topic. Sounds like your storage is really well optimized! In the end, I like to create in a session without having to think about the PC which sounds like what you are going for as well. Cheers!
Glad to help out. Disabling hyperthreading (also can be done on AMD) can be helpful in some cases (there is still controversy around this in 2024!), particularly high core count CPUs. Also depends on which DAW(s) you use as some are specifically coded to support HT cores... Of course things continue to change on the CPU landscape. I'm waiting for a (full) next gen Intel CPU (not a refresh) release to do some testing. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this :D Using a X32 with Cubase and setting XUSBAudioCplApp.exe to Affinity or CPU Set to Core 2 Made the biggest difference! Setting it in Windows 10 (Windows 11 is not supported) would always set it back to all cores when rebooting, which was super anoying
If you wanted to run obs for live-streaming and a daw on the same computer (i know its not recommended) would it still be advisable to use these settings on both programs or just one of them? Thanks
with the i9-13900k it shows E Cores, is it good to select these as well for ableton live or only the main "p-cores"? I assume as long as theyre even numbers theyre all physical cores right? Great video, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, even numbers are the physical cores, by I would recommend using a p-core for Ableton as it will provide more performance, particularly when using a number of plugins.
thank you for this video! selecting disable smt will quickly uncheck all of the odd numbered cores. i assume intel may have disable hyperthread option?
Hi, this is awesome man, my pc daw runs smooth now. I can work in midi all the way to mixing now. 1 question though, any audio outside my daw has crackles and pops now like windows media player or youtube etc. do u have any idea why it would be doing that now? Even though the DAW is not running
I find myself really disappointed in DAW technology and how it destroys my laptop, but this kind of video can be really useful to boost the lag & freezing issues I'm having...thanks
Hi, very informative, I am using I7 700k will it work...? As your example shows, an AMD processor. I sometimes get audio drops while using OBS along with Studio One and usually it is in vocal capturing, which i directly route to OBS from my audio interface...i have disabled other audio drivers which are not needed.
The anoying thing I have now is that Cubase says the CPU is maxed out when Task manager says that Cubase is using less than 50%. It's tought me more about how to get similar results with less plugins (better audio enginerring I guess), but the learning curve takes time. If anyone knows how to solve this please post it :D I and probably a bunch of other people have 50% CPU that's not being used, I've gone through this and the 7 Steps prior to this video. If I find a way to do this, I'll post it here for someone else. Peace!!
Correct, Cubase and other DAW software don't need Windows audio (audiodg.exe), with a good sound card it is recommended to use the ASIO driver which comes with it. I wonder if audiodg.exe is in fact actually interfering when set to high priority.
I’m using Davinci Resolve 19, Bitwig, and Studio One Pro…intel I9 24 core, 64 bit RAM, NVIDIA 4090…I’m not a nerd, know enough to be dangerous. If I am in the middle of projects spread across fore-mentioned software would changing these settings be good for my situation? Thanks for your expertise and answer in advance.
Previous video was helpful but I did exactly as you have instructed on this video but my DAW was almost frozen, audio not working so I had to uninstall the Process Lasso and revert back to original setting.
Could be a conflict with Process Lasso and another app on your system. It is possible to make the CPU priority (from the first video) permanent by editing the Windows Registry, but I only recommend doing that if you are "very comfortable" tweaking those settings. It is more of a convenience feature than anything else, but I have to reset the priority after rebooting a few times...
Thank you so much! I have intel 12900k processor... Which method will be the best for me when it comes to CPU Affinity vs CPU sets? And how many cores should I give to my daw , according to my specific processor? Thanks again!
Glad to help out. With you processor I would start by using an app such as Latency Monitor to check which cores have the most interrupts / DTC latency (it is often core 0). Then check to see if any other price cores have considerably more processes executing. Leave out these cores and allocate the remaining p cores to your DAW. Try starting with this setup and see if it impacts how low you can set the buffer for recording with minimal latency. I hope this helps out!
Heya bud, first of all thanks so much for this channel. Really appreciate it. I am currently trying to find the services process for my boss rc 600 audio driver. Could you please explain how one would work out which one it is. Also, on a separate note. I am using Ableton Live as my DAW and in the processes there is one named Ableton index. Currently this one is set to below normal priority. Would it be wise to change any settings in here? Again thanks so much. It i so rare to find such a good hit of knowledge without a good saturation of rubbish. Best regards
Thanks, I'm glad you are enjoying my videos. I try to keep the "rubbish saturation" to a minimum, but like anything I'm hopefully improving with time lol. The Ableton index process is normally set below normal so as not to impact real-time audio performance if Ableton starts indexing files (and it does) at an inopportune time. Unfortunately the issue with this is that it can cause delays if you are using a lot of samples during a live performance. You can increase its priority to normal as long as you assign its affinity to a core other than the one used for the main DAW process. As far as the RC 600 driver when I am having difficulty finding a process I open the task manager - details tab and sort by CPU usage in descending order. I then start or access the hardware and look for a spike in CPU. I believe the Boss driver name starts with RD... but I could be mistaken. Hope this helps out, Cheers!
I have Acer Nitro 5, i5 with 8gb ram and 4gb GTX graphic card, recently when I updated my obs to 29 ( latest version) in noise suppression there is a warning ⚠️ that please update your both nvidia video and audio sdk, your audio sdk is out dated, and there is crackling or poping sound started, I updated my nvidia thrice but nothing solved. After I uninstalled obs and download older version of obs which runs perfect without crackling. So have you any solution regarding this matter? Also when I used croma there is thin white out line on my body sepcially on my hair, what to do. There three lights one on front and two are at sides with downward 45 degrees, what to do?
The thin light line down the middle sounds similar to the "fixed screen" tear issue that was common for a while. To test this, try changing the refresh rate back and forth. For example, if you are running at 60Hz, switch to 30Hz and then back to 60Hz. Then see if the line remains. If it is gone at either 30Hz or when you switch back to 60Hz, the solution has generally been to completely uninstall your video drivers and then do a clean install. If this still doesn't make a difference, if you are using the game-ready driver, try changing to the studio-driver, it is generally more reliable. For the noise suppression in OBS29, if you have the GTX1650 in your Nitro, there could be a conflict with the new NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs. While NVIDIA added support for GTX cards to the RTX Voice app, GTX cards, including the 1650, are still not officially supported on the new SDKs. While the 1650 does have Tensor cores, there still may be an issue as NVIDIA has not specifically indicated support. The good news is that this is a known issue with the OBS29 update that will likely be resolved in the near future. I generally wait (often 4-6 months) before updating to a new version of OBS (at least on my production computer) to allow issues with plugins to be resolved. I don't know that NVIDIA will resolve this with official support in the SDK, but OBS devs generally clean these issues up within a few updates after release. Hope this helps out!
I hope it helps out! There can be other issues, especially power management settings as I went through in my 7 tips video, that can cause dropouts and other performance problems as well. Also, if you are running an additional anti-virus such as McAfee or Norton, these will cause real-time audio issues.
The audiodg.exe process may not be visible if Windows audio is not in use. It should show up if you play a video with your browser or with the Windows player. Hope this helps out!
Yes, since your DAW is using ASIO instead of Windows audio. The issue is that if Windows decides to play audio such as a notification chime while you are in your DAW, audiodg will automatically start which can cause a sudden drop out if your DAW is using the same core.
Yes it does. This is why I recommend using the "Always" setting for the various parameters I showed in the video. You can always change this or even mix and match always and temporary settings.
I think optimizers can be useful, but I am always a bit cautious about "optimization" utilities as I like to know exactly what settings (particularly registry, etc.) have been changed. I'm a bit old-school on this...I make changes manually and keep a log of when / what I did. I find this helpful if I need to go back or if a Windows update (or other installer) changes something. Before I decided to use PL I did a thorough before/after comparison of a few key files including the registry.
Thanks for an insightful video, but I have a question. I'm using an Intel 13700K. If I do CPU sets for my DAW, do I only select the even p-cores or should I select the even e-cores as well for best performance?
Great question (which I should have included in the video…)! Use only p-cores for your DAW set, your 13700K has enough of them that you will not need “help” from the e-cores. Cheers!
