I tried a lot of variations and I am kind of desperate for a solution now, what do you think? I know the old game PDF recommends 16 bit / 48kHz, but I have 2 channel / 24 bit / 48kHz I was also wondering whether I had to modify: Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Manage Audio Devices > (Playback/Recording tab) > advanced tab > default format Again it all works fine with Ableton Live. My bass is plugged directly to the first input - channel 0 - with INST (but I also tried LINE). (of course I stopped Ableton Live)īut I do not get any input, when I try to go to the Tuner, it tells me my microphone is not plugged, I try to redo the calibration, but there simply is no signal. I indeed had to set 96 or 192 the buffer size to have no crackling from the Rocksmith output at startup. So knowing this, I now want to listen to the Rocksmith game output as well, which brought me here.

Note: If I try to set 48, 96, or 192 buffer rate while using Ableton live, Focusrite will forcefully switch to the closest bigger power of 2 with Safe mode, though. Now, I removed the direct input and I get very good quality from the software output of Ableton Live for example.įor 48k sample rate I can go now down to 32 buffer size without any issue or crackling. I have applied those to my setup (removing power optimizations and especially BIOS C-states) and started understanding the logic of sweet spot for sampling rate and buffer size. I recently came across this post by Focusrite that opened my eyes on some optimizations that I could do to get way more bang for my buck:

(I have been playing with Rocksmith 2014 with my bass guitar for 1 year in a degraded mode - sending my signal to the game but listening to my raw input directly and not try to do much more, I was the only way I could hear myself in those conditions) I am quite a beginner with sound systems on PC (DAWs etc) and was having terrible crackling or performance issues whatever I did. I own a Focusrite 8i6 and a PC on windows 11 with a powerful enough processor (Intel Core i7 7700K).

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