By mikem
Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:20 am
misterflibble wrote:mikem wrote:Hi everybody!
I had to register just to say: I think I found a fix for the input glitches on my Model 16. I downloaded the mixer settings panel, connected my Model 16 to the laptop and upped the buffer size from 256 to 512, then I connected the Model 16 to the MPC. This seems to work fine, I played around with it for a couple of minutes without any pops on the input (Behringer K2 -> Model 16 -> MPC One). Even with a big reverb on the K2 signal no clicks or pops so far, and I had them pretty regularly before. So I think this is worth a try if you have a Tascam device, or maybe this works with others as well. I don't know if this fixes it completely, but it is way, way better than before.
Unfortunately latency is a bit higher, but at least it is usable now.
This is really helpful info, thanks for sharing. There has been a long-standing assumption that the clicks and pops we're getting on recording or playback with the MPC USB class-compliant audio interface support has been related to buffer size settings on either the MPC or the audio interface. Unfortunately, the MPC doesn't offer the ability to change the buffer size on the MPC's end, so you're stuck having to have an interface that allows the change on its end like the Tascam. I would hope that if Akai let users configure the buffer size on the MPC that it might allow a larger number of devices to become usable for this rather unstable feature.
Yes, that would be great. It's definitely the buffer size. I had to increase it to 1024 btw, because I got occasional clicks here and there with 512 too, but with 1024 I haven't had a single click in days. I don't know how this works, but my guess is that the MPC configures itself to use the same buffer size as the interface, and sizes below 1024 might simply be too low for the CPU to handle. Is there a way to find out what buffer size the MPC uses with its internal interface?