How to increase latency (max buffer size)?

[mrvegas]

I notice that in player settings it seems that the maximum buffer setting is 200 ms. I'm using a lot of effects plug-ins on a song, and I'm starting to get crackling on a pretty powerful PC.  There's nothing live here, so I don't care about latency.  How can I increase it to get it to play back better with crackling?

Thanks.

[LPChip]

It shouldn't get you latency problems at that stage. I guess some plugins are bad programmed and just get you max cpu usage.

I've had this with a Reverb plugin called Ambience-<date> Very good plugin, but also very resourcefull.

My track had 10 instances of it, and at some points it got to distort and cracle up my song. I bought a new processor because it was only slightly. The processor was way better than my previous one, and the cracling still occoured. Okay, it was maybe 2% better, but you see, the problem is not the hardware or settings, but bad plugins.

Check what plugins you use and see if you can create a situation where you can use less of those plugins or change them from less powerfull ones.

If you indeed use reverb, see if it has a cpu/quality setting and try to set it to less cpu usage.

[älskling]

Of course, features such as freezing tracks and send channels wouldn't hurt either.

ASIO drivers perhaps?

[mrvegas]

Thanks for the tips guys.  You were right, it's the plug.  It's Electronisounds Ubergate -- a really cool multi-effect, but if you use it to full capacity, each instance will take up to 30% CPU even on a decent computer.  The delay, modulation, and EQ sections seem to eat up huge amounts of CPU.  I even ran it through Psycle with over a second of latency and that didn't help much.

Oh well.