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yea when I tried running sibelius it is taking 1.25gb of ram ..I don't have creative sound card in my laptop....
 
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yea when I tried running sibelius it is taking 1.25gb of ram ..I don't have creative sound card in my laptop....

your probably stuck with the all in one ASIO drivers.. Just going to have to tweak with the options I bet.. Since I have a creative card.. im always going to get better performance using there drivers most the time

As I said.. The 1st time I ran FL without tweaking it a tad.. it sounded like utter shit

Think you problem might just be a lack of ram or you just need to mess with the audio settings in the options..

What OS you running.. I went back to look but I dont think you said...if you running vista/7.. you DEFINITELY don't have enough ram.. with XP.. you should but i dont know.. I remember when I had XP.. after bootup I had around 200 of ram usage but my system was running kinda lean.. Add that too the 1.25Gb and your using like 70% of your total Ram.. That's the reason I said.. not to run stuff in the background if you can avoid it... this might help.. These music programs are RAM and CPU hungry...

Never used sibelius but I know what it is.. That program uses 1.25Gb.. Wow:banghead:... I picture a pacman just gobbling up 1's and 0's:eek: LOL

Are you running BOTH of these programs simultaneously?
 
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guys before you get carried away with upgrading his pc...an i3 is more than fine for audio use... he needs to check in the programs audio settings what soundcard driver he is using (WDM, ASIO etc...) and at what latency it is set at... even an overclocked i7 will stutter with a non ASIO driver with the latency set too low...

You can get away with a crappy CPU on FL studio and other audio DAW's if you just set the latency higher so that the processor needs to do less in realtime... or alternatively use an ASIO driver
 
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guys before you get carried away with upgrading his pc...an i3 is more than fine for audio use... he needs to check in the programs audio settings what soundcard driver he is using (WDM, ASIO etc...) and at what latency it is set at... even an overclocked i7 will stutter with a non ASIO driver with the latency set too low...

You can get away with a crappy CPU on FL studio and other audio DAW's if you just set the latency higher so that the processor needs to do less in realtime... or alternatively use an ASIO driver

What i have been saying ALL along
 
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I am using win 7 32bit os ...I have 2gb ddr3 in my laptop..I guess it is the latency problem..I have to check it..
I am using onboard audio of my laptop ..how to check the latency settings ?
 
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options>Audio is the screen you will need i think

select ASIO4Allv2

then select show asio panel

I know there is a readme that explains these settings. You might need look at it if you already haven't.. Beyond that.. i dont know


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... latency is listed on the top of the ASIO property.. Mine says Buffer length 512 samples (12ms).. latency would be the 12ms

You need to adjust the ASIO buffer size.. click on the show asio panel.. after that.. bottom of the screen that button takes you too
slide the slider to the left=lower latency
slider the slider to the right=reduces glitches
 
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Yeah any USB audio device would be good. They are commonly called "DAC"s.By any I mean the ones over $50, the really cheap ones might not be any better then your onboard .


http://www.apex-computer-repair-london.com/

as long as it supports ASIO... (theres many of them, mainly audio interfaces for music production starting anywhere from £40 up
 
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wow now I am using fl studio & sibelius w/o any issues ...Thank you very much friends....You guys helped a lot ..
 
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wow now I am using fl studio & sibelius w/o any issues ...Thank you very much friends....You guys helped a lot ..

what did you do to fix it?
 

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my guess is ASIO4all

AHH.. yea.. after i installed FL.. it stuttered alot.. Not sure what the default was.. but it improved greatly after i set it for ASIO..
 
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yea...true .I just changed it to ASIO4all ..now everything working fine w/o any problems .
 

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if its just music playback, why not use fubar2000 or winamp?


as has been said, best ways to get better sound is to add a better soundcard, and better speakers.
FUBAR?? seriously??


Either
- internal soundcard
- USB soundcard
- you hook a receiver/amp up to the onboard sound like I do.

Also, it depends on your speakers. No soundcard can turn 10$ speakers into high class speakers.

+1.

i thought my onboard VIA was great. Till i jacked it up to my sony MHC G50II with a stereo to dual phono cable i made.

the audio quality has increased 0/0 times!

@subhendu
ps, r u a bangali like me? ur name sounds like it
 

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If your sequencing in FL you can turn up the latency. Try >50ms. Although ASIO-for-all offers lower latentcy, it also takes some processing power. If your CPU is your bottleneck then you need to unload as much as you can, not add more. Low latency is desired by a musician who is playing along with the music in real time. Like a keyboardist. In that case, ASIO-for-all can benefit them. If your only sequencing then just turn up the latency.

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Ditch FL and get Reason. =)
 
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If your sequencing in FL you can turn up the latency. Try >50ms. Although ASIO-for-all offers lower latentcy, it also takes some processing power. If your CPU is your bottleneck then you need to unload as much as you can, not add more. Low latency is desired by a musician who is playing along with the music in real time. Like a keyboardist. In that case, ASIO-for-all can benefit them. If your only sequencing then just turn up the latency.

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Ditch FL and get Reason. =)

Reason I set my latency to the lowest that is possible with out stuttering any.. Believe I set my Creative ASIO control panel to 7ms.. Perfect setting for my PC.. any less and the skipping/stuttering starts
 
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