sts5000 stutter

[roy thinnes]

After a long time I recently digged up the STS5000, as I wanted to use it's Formant and PitchShifting possibilities.
At first I was delighted but soon I've run into problems:
- Midiclock for LFOs not working correctly. (Ok, can live without that.)
- a BSOD when changing sample root note. Seems to be a known bug (see last post)
- in Ableton, occasional audio stutter of a loop in an audiotrack. (example) (just 4 STS instances, audio track, drum rack; after removing the STS5k everything was ok)
While I can cope with the first two, the latter is something which convinces me to lay it back into the drawer for good.
Sad because it's a cool sample mangling machine.
Or has someone got an idea how to avoid these hickups?
(Win7 32bit, Scope5.1, IntelDH55HC)

[ehasting]

i actually never got it totally stable :/.
I have however used in a few track, but i always ended up doing my stuff.. recording it down then remove it from the project.
(never more then one instance and a few custom made programs
Mostly BSOD in i guess probably because of the root-note bug you mention (which i didn't knew about)

However - it do sounds great, and i want it to work stable - which might be a possibility if the root-note bug thingy was what triggered the BSOD for me. .

However the stutter/click problem is known to me - i had that before, i will see if i still have that.

Rgs
Egil

[roy thinnes]

I think I found a (kind of) solution.
this is STS5k on 44.1 kHz, and that on 48kHz.
(STS w/ three instruments, all Vol=0, so just the drumloop is heard)
It seems that on 48kHz Ableton doesn't produce those artefacts

Moreover, ULLI setting seems to have an influence also, as with 3ms I've still got one hiccup in a 16 bar sequence, with 23ms none.

Ok, Kontakt is a great sampler, but a quite demanding the CPU if you have much time stretching going on.
And: in some situations STS5k sounds better for me.

So if I can use good old STS I'll be a happy camper - let's see if it works.