Good Afternoon, Need some direction and advice.Performed some shows over the weekend and had a couple minor glitches. First , my rig. Keyboards: NI Komplete Kontrol S88 MKiii & an Arturia keylab 61 MKiii. Computer is a Mac Pro book M! pro w/ ext. 4TB SSD HD. Connected to a RME Babyface pro 24. Int…

I agree totally about the gain staging. When I set up, I watch the RME and the LED’S are always in the green. Ithere another way to adjust and check input on the RME? I’ve always been lazy and never added gain led widgets on my racks.So probably waht I should be doing is adding led meters for gain…

What is your buffer size and sample rate? [image] lannyg22: On occasion, when a song moves quickly to the next song, I change the rack and hit the piano, it crackles and glitches out. Is this for every random song to another random song or specific switch from song A to song B? For the songs…

If only the piano sounds distorted, the issue may come from improper gain staging between the RME Babyface and the Soundcraft mixer. If the distortion becomes more noticeable when playing loud chords, this is likely the cause. If there are audio glitches caused by an issue at the output of the audio…

Buffer is at 256. My CPU % maxes at around 30-40%. The only VST I have issues with (sometimes) is the Yamaha Montage M soft synth. When doing a patch, I always lower the value on the ‘midi learn page’ to around 75. Where is the Master trim you are speaking of? Where are you running your VST volumes?…

Check the General options for Master Trim. Also there is a knob on the main toolbar. I suspect like @David-san that there may be issue with gain staging.

Are you using the AU version of Pianoteq? What format are you using? If you are using the AU version, you might want to consider trying the VST3 version. Maybe try in a test Gig file. If the problem does not recur, you might want to switch all of them (not good to use different versions in the sa…

No just mentioned montage because by nature it’s very power hungry. All of my plugs are VST3.Just wondering…So when I’m using Pianoteq (Bechstein, for example), I always ‘midi learn’ the volume on the VST. Would it be better to set that volume at 0 unity and add either a Gain/ Bal widget or audio mi…

I think its better to control the volume using a GP mixer plugin, which you can control via a widget. So, you connect a widget to the plugin’s volume parameter? Maybe something is doing something to that (you can look in the MIDI monitor). I don’t think that usually considered best practice….

[image] lannyg22: Would it be better to set that volume at 0 unity and add either a Gain/ Bal widget or audio mixer (depending on the rack) and control it from there? Yes, it would.

[image] lannyg22: Ithere another way to adjust and check input on the RME? There is nothing to adjust on this side. The outputs from GP correspond to the playback section in TotalMix FX which is fully digital and has no preamp gain to adjust. The gain staging issue I suspect is between your …

Thanks for the input from one and all. As soon as I get my rig back in the studio, I’ll start tracing the gain staging. Thanks again

General Performance Questions

General discussion about Gig Performer

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There was a recent thread here discussing issues with Pianoteq 9 and the difference in CPU usage vs Pianoteq 8.