Sound card or plug in Help

[DAB]

Hi all , ive been getting quite a high cpu reading when layering 3 vsti and getting the clipping noise , i no i can increase the buffer etc but would i help matters by getting rid of my m audio 2496 card and getting something like a emu ua25 audio interface??

i have a athllon 3500 with load of memory shorly it should be able to handle allot?? so i am looking to my sound card , i have the basic m audio 2496.

please all the help you can give will be greatful as i a,m getting fed up with that clipping noise.

Cheers

[zircon]

1. What 3 VSTs are you using?

2. Does your CPU meter hit 99% before you get the noise, or is it much less than that?

3. Do you use your soundcard's drivers in your sequencer of choice, or do you use something like asio4all?

[DAB]

1)hi , the vsti i use are vanguard , nexus, and z3ta , some times i use nexus twice.

2)mainly around 80 to 90% however on some pads i hear it on very low cpu , but i dont no if this is in the patch it self.

use asio all the time ,

Thanks you.

[realpolitik]

all the plugins you just named are known cpu-killers.

are you using any special kind of asio native to your soundcard or just asio4all or something of the like? because after i switched from asio4all to my e-mu 1820m's e-mu asio my latency dropped like 10 ms.

as i understand, a faster processor is directly correlated to plugin performance, so that may be the issue.