DSP Audio Issues

S2400 Bug Reports
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Hi All,

I would like to raise couple issues that I have started facing after assembling DSP into my S2400.

  1. Ocasionally audio is getting lost, sometimes channel by channel (so for example L first and then R next, just after couple seconds after L) and it is not coming back, S2400 needs to be restarted to start working fine again;

  2. It seems like DSP is not handling too many effects at once and then sound gets really distorted and impossible to work with; too many effects in this case means = reverb on snares (group 5-6) + reverb on samples (group 7-8); switching off one of the reverbs solves the problem, however I think there shouln’t be limitations like that considering DSP is standalone processor (I can be wrong here, of course)

  3. Scrolling between LiveFXs during playback creates similar sound distortion like in point 2 above.

Sorry. if anyone raised such issues before, but I didn’t find such posts. If you find videos/audio clips useful for these issues, kindly let me know, so I can attach these.

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Regarding point 2:

Are you using the Airwindows effects?

Some of them have been said to be very resource heavy.

Personally I recently experienced some metallic sounding glitches on a project. It got a lot better when I switched from an Airwindows reverb to one from Dragonfly.

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Yeah, I moslty use Airwindows plugins as these sound the best from the ones available on the module itself.

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Hey @bradholland are you able to speak to these issues, if maybe these will be fixed in upcoming firmare update? Or perhaps advice if I am doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

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I haven’t used the Airwindows reverb so I can’t speak to that specifically, but some of the other AW plugins bombed out my S2400 with only 3–4 running. I thought I damaged my card during installation until it was determined that some of them are super resource-hungry. Now that I know that, I mainly use better-optimized plugins from other developers, and can have lots of different things running simultaneously without issue.

I would try a different reverb and see if you get the same result. It could be that the AW reverb really is that resource-intensive. It could also be that you have something wrong with your card. My guess is it’s the former, but some quick tests would prove one or the other.

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