Problems with NI Massive!

[Projecthowl]

Hey guys,
Any help would be appreciated. I recently got NI Massive and have discovered that when I'm trying to run more than three instnaces it brings audio playback to a crawl- Cracking, popping, speeds up slows down...sounds kit like a really grainy bitcrusher. Odd thing is my Ram would be at about 1.5-2 Gigs at the time (I have six...) and my CPU 50% I have a: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor, 2300 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)... Sound card: Presonus Firestudio Mobile, with the latest universal control drivers (1.6) Please help! I just want to make music.

[Electric_Head]

Are you using an asio driver?

[Projecthowl]

Yes- Universal Control 1.6

[outbound]

Yup sounds about right.

-Switch Massive to economy mode.
-Try resampling to reduce the amount of instances.
-Anything that isn't being used in massive turn off (Filters etc)
-Reduce number of voices (massive defaults to 1 so unless you've messed with it this should be fine)

I'm on a quad-core with 16gb of ram and still run into these problems. The thing is even though you have essentially 4 cores of processing power they may not be being used efficiently enough to deal with more than that many instances. Like instead of the computer using say each core for 1 instance of massive it just stacks them all up onto 1 core which then craps out. There's no way around this until developers get the hang of using this power efficiently just have to learn to work with it in the mean time.

[sunny_b_uk]

how odd.. i have the same quad processor and i can run 60-80 massives till my cpu spikes (sometimes more)
also im using an onboard soundcard + i only have 3gb of ram..
maybe try asio4all and see if you can use more instances of massive?