NI Absynth 4 runs slow and choppy (GUI)

[vaisnava]

Hoping someone can help me solve why Native Instruments Absynth 4 runs so choppy and slow on my system with Buzz. The Audio is not choppy, but the GUI sticks and goes slow and I have to wait for it to respond again.

Windows Vista 32bit. latest buzz

thanks

[mes]

hmmmm no problem here with absynth 5 on the latest build....maybe it's something in the polac vst settings?

[double07]

Absynth 5 also runs smoothly for me inside Buzz... have you got the latest polac vsti loader?

[vaisnava]

Yes, I have the latest Polac VSTi loader. I only have Absynth 4 though...

Hmmm...

[mes]

I was using Absynth 4 until last week, it seemed to be working fine as well.

[boombaxx]

Are you using the latest version of Absynth 4 as i found the early ones had the same problem the latest is 4.0.5

[vaisnava]

Yes, it is the latest version... 4.0.5.003

hmmmm

[polac]

Hi, I didn't check the latest Absynths but i remember that they required some sort of special handling. As a rule the vst host is responsible for the gui update. By default a host calls update() only if the editor is visible, however Absynth was one of the plugin that required a call all the time even with no visible gui. However since vst2.4 this is obsolete so Absynth 5 possibly does not rely on it anymore. Btw I did add an option to preferences/global to set the gui update rate by hand, perhaps this may help here too(?).

[vaisnava]

Thanks Polac, that seemed to help the slow/sluggish and slight freezing quite a bit, but it still exists a little bit, but much more usable.