Audiobox Buffers in Studio One

[@EntwebDS]

I've been baffled for a very long time with the control panel button not working. This was EXTREMELY helpful! Thanks!

[@charleswilliams3839]

Thank you sir! It was driving me nuts trying to figure this out. Very helpful!

[@DevinAdint]

I'm not sure why you would think buffers cause latency. Buffers are there so that a device has a place to put its data for the software to process. If the software has to do other work such as auto-saving, filtering which takes up CPU so that it can't process what is in the buffer you want to have enough buffers so that the device doesn't stop taking input. If there is latency in what you are seeing on the screen then that isn't the buffers fault its a lack of processing and IO resources which have to catch up processing what is in the buffer and writing it to disk. But this is just a visual thing, it will eventually catch up and store what it has.

[@PhrygianFrogMusicProfessionals]

Hi Devin thanks for you question and I do understand the confusion. What you are talking about is CPU caching, not memory buffing. Both CPU and Memory work together to give you the best performance. So to get technical, the lower the audio buffers (which is actually memory buffers) the more CPU caching that goes on and as long as your CPU can handle the processing and caching, then you will get a lower latency and higher bandwidth. So audio buffers can absolutely cause latency as they are bandwidth to the onboard dRam cache which is higher than system or CPU memory. So for recording, lower buffers can only goes as low as your CPU can handle as there is handshaking or sharing going on at different cache levels. When using lots of virtual instruments and mixing, you often want to preload large samples and instrument libraries. (orchestral as an example). East West even has settings for this in terms of lowering the voice count to optimize for buffering and faster load times. This optimization is supposed to bypass shared memory with the processor, but I'm yet to be convinced. So yes, type, speed, and how much ram are complicated matters, but audio buffering is typically referring to the ram sticks on board. In fact as you add more ram sticks, you will have higher options to load more into ram at the playback stage. I'm happy to explain more if you'd like.

[@JaymoHome]

Thank you, i was looking all over about to contact presonus

[@huntrizzy8446]

hey man my lil audiobox guy waving at me disappeared lol how do i get it back?

[@fenmalique7268]

hai Jason.. I ve followed your step in changing my buffer setting.. But I end up loosing my audio.. All I have now a clipping sound..can help me with this..tq

[@PhrygianFrogMusicProfessionals]

It sounds like you lowered the buffer too low and now your processor can't handle the load on its own. Raise it up little by little to find the sweet spot so cpu and ram can share the load.

[@fenmalique7268]

@@PhrygianFrogMusicProfessionals thnx dude..got it