Hello everyone.

This is my first time on the forum so I'll be short and sweet!

I am using Reason Drumkits Refill 2.0 with Reason 3. I have just gotten the refill and no matter what i do with it i hear cracking on the speakers. I have tried monitoring with headphones and the same thing happens. The audio clip light does not go on at all. I have lowered all the levels in the mixer, the instrument levels, tried muting every track one by one and nothing gets rid of the cracking/distortion.

Also, the cracking is there whether i play one of the demos that came with the refill or a drum traxck that i have programmed. However, if i don't use the refill, there is no cracking. I am using the preset drum kits it brings in Combinator patches.

Can you please help if you know whats wrong/how i can fix this.

THanks a lot guys!!!

Try increasing your buffering amount in Edit>Preferences

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THanks Titancow that worked, however .... another problem ...

I was using an M-Audio ASIO driver. This only allowed a max buffer of 128 samples with 3ms input and output latency (latter is good for keyboard playing).

In order to increase the buffer size i had to select another driver. Although this played it back without clipping the latency was really bad. Even the screen couldn't keep up with the track.

Is there any way that i can keep my original driver and increase the buffer size? Alternatively can you suggest something else that may make it work but with a lower latency ... 3ms is really good and i'd like to stay as close to that as possible.

THanks alot ... again!

Is the M audio ASIO driver any different from the regular one? If so try the regular one, that one works great for me.

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what are you using for your sound output? An interface? or your computer sound card?

I'm using an audiophile 24/96 soundcard for input and output.

The driver is one i downloaded a few years ago when i bought the soundcard ... should i download a new/better one?

does that soundcard have an ASIO option? when you are selecting your audio devices? if not.. you may need to see if there is a new driver for it..
You may need a better sound card, or better yet an audio interface..
I was using a Soundblaster Extigy 24-bit for the longest time.. ASIO was ok but still a little slow, which i didn't even realize until i got my INterface.
Im using an M-Audio Ozone as my interface right now and its almost 0-latency when in ASIO.

Guys


THanks for your help. I finally managed to sort out the problem ... the M-Audio control panel settings only allowed 128 samples .. so Reason wouldnt let me increase that ... when i increased it reason allowed me to do the same thing and problem solved ... however now i have more latency (it was 3 ms now its 7.5ms).

Is there any way i could keep a higher number of samples but reduce latency?