You seem to be conflating lower buffer settings with other bug issues, if I'm running at 128 or 256 etc. it will 100% be the first thing I check if the project is spiking. I don't think I've ever thought of repairing permissions to fix a CPU spiking type issue.Gravity Jim wrote:Credit for what?
I see continual conversations here and elsewhere about getting your DAW's buffers down to ridiculously low numbers, and then plenty of speed-shop bragging about how low someone got theirs by endless screwing around.
I, too, am a guitar player, with a sense of time that's, in a word, perfect (ask my jazz piano teacher about it), and I have no trouble playing in time at 256, although I prefer 128 for tracking.
It just strikes me as a gas-milage-style argument, with buffer numbers as standing in for 10ths of a mile per gallon.
And I thought the first thing everybody did when having problem was dumb busy work like repairing disk permissions. Thankfully we can't do that anymore and it will fade from the board.
Finally, why do you take this a personal insult? I don't give two flips how anybody else runs DP. I'm just telling you my experience. Jesus, you kids are touchy anymore.
Funny, I had to read through this again just to figure out what you were replying to, I'm never really that impassioned in online discussions, it's not worth the emotional energy. I stand by my statement though, if someone is claiming problems with DP and claiming lower buffer settings, the first thing to check would be how the system ran at higher buffer settings. You often insinuate that regulars here have issues because they tweaked their system, and I would say that most regulars here would be at least raising their buffer settings if they have issues.
IMO most regulars that complain about DP being unstable are mostly doing so because they use features that have bugs, mute automation with snapshots etc. I've noticed a few bugs, but for the most part DP works as advertised. Ran into a shift bug while attempting to add an empty bar to the beginning of the sequence the other day, seemed like it might be due to various time signatures in the song, but DP also has an insert feature that I could use instead that wasn't seemingly affect by various time signatures etc. Bugs exist, regardless of your setup, sometimes you come across like all bugs are the fault of the end user, which simply isn't true.
I think like most things in life bugs and user issues don't exist in a black vs white reality. Some users are accessing parts of the program you or I don't use, hence bugs for them not us; others are not addressing the issue systematically and trying to isolate possible causes before they blame MOTU and claim DP is a buggy mess. The fun is when a user half asses trouble shooting and goes off on DP as a mess when they haven't truly done the work to make sure it isn't some other component of their system, that's when I agree with your assessment of uses tweaking etc. I have definitely had a new driver or update to commonly used plug in that got rid of a bug, no doubt.