Notes Delayed

I’m having to set up a new laptop with GP. Everything is the same except the laptop (Windows 11 Pro, I7 32GB RAM and newer and better than crashed laptop) and GP5… and I have never experienced this. Everything is fine for a while and then all of a sudden i play a run of notes and they start to sound delayed… the more notes the more delayed. If I just play a single note or two there is no problem and no latency at all. But once I do a run the latter notes become more and more delayed… so a long run I can lift my fingers off the keys and notes are still playing. There is no crackling or popping at all. Help Please!

I assume you already restarted Windows? Sometimes it does help. Also having your laptop sleeping and waking up again might cause trouble, because not all drivers behave well in this situation.

Could you elaborate a little more on the cpu? It’s an I7, but which one? I would not expect the problem lies there, but the newer cpus with p-cores and e-cores do have different characteristics than the older ones.

Just my two cents.

Just a thought…

If you use your mouse to play lots of notes quickly on the virtual keyboard (within the plugin and maybe also with the MIDI IN Block) does the same thing happen?

It’s an 12th gen i7, not one of the new ones.

Restarting GP does not solve the problem, but restarting the laptop does. But then it happens again after a bit.

I’ll try the virtual keyboard next time it happens

So, the problem is the is notes are delayed?

Not that notes are hanging? (More common, I think).

Jeff

Which controller are you using and how are they connected to your Laptop and which MIDI drivers are used ?

Please also include information about your soundcard, driver, buffer settings… try to give us as many and detailed information of everything that is involved!
Does this happen with every plugin?
TIA! :+1:

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So it is a Novation SL MkII controller and just USB into laptop and then using zamia YC88 own audio over USB. Anyway this set up all worked great until my laptop crashed. So now the only difference is the laptop, which spec wise is quite a bit better.

I haven’t been able to spend a lot of time with tis the past week but I happened to see something about updates resetting optimization settings. I checked and everything seemed unchanged except for my power plan which was back at “balanced” rathe than my optimized plan. So I changed that back and haven’t the problem again, but as I said I havent had a lot of time with it.

Yes, power plan is key! Hopefully this fixed it.

I had to insert specific code to get the Ultimate Power Plan on one of my laptops. On the other one, even with the Ultimate Power Plan implemented, I got crackling until I set up ThrottleStop

So, hopefully your situation is fixed.

Jeff