Wondering if there is anything speaking against using Waves Superrack and Live Professor on the same Mac mini. Both using the Waves card as audio input and output.
So far it has worked well but since a few days I‘m getting weird droput-like sounds and a „audio device was late“ error message in live professor. No errors whatsoever in Superrack.
I‘m also using Protools on the same system to multitrack and it stops recording when or right before the dropout is happening. Protools is showing a AAE -6101 error.
CPU usage meter in Protools is never above 20%.
Live professor is not supported with Waves products, plugins or host applications, such as SPRK LV1 SGST. So this may be a part of the issue here.
Pro Tools should run just fine with Waves, if you still have trouble setting it up with a supported host such as Pro Tools I’d advise to Contact Technical Support to get their professional assistance with solving this.
I am having the same issue I’m running a live rig for my band
x32 with Xlive card
Waves SuperRack Perfomer
Last week my band had a new sound engineer come in and help get the plugins set for Waves. We could get it working, and then all of a sudden it would stop. We had to stop using Waves Super Rack. When I got home and looked at it some more, I noticed the CPU on the Waves Screen was moving up and down, and if the CPU usage got too high, it cut off the sound. I only started to have this issue after my Mac Mini updated the other day to Tahoe 26.6.
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Did you try to alter buffer size?
“Cut off” or “crackle” with CPU overload is normally a matter of wrong buffer size.
As XLive is only a USB device, cpu load can occasionally spike because USB has not highest priority in the OS, so if somethings going on, audio has to wait (which isn’t what you want).
Using devices with better drivers (like RME MADIface, Digiface etc.) or TB are often better choice for demanding live audio application.
Also, if buffer is to low, it can cause issues. With Apple Silicon to high buffer values can also cause errors.