Well, most musicians could say ASIO, but in my system is actually WASAPI
Why?
I didn’t know, up to a few days ago
Well, after half hour jamming crazily, Cantabile crashed, but using the set below!
This is impossible to do with Ableton Live (Wasapi not allowed), or with Cantabile + ASIO
I think to have got that one of the 2 kinds of crashes I have is linked to my old and unsupported audio card, and the suspect raised when I found that WASAPI works better than the ASIO driver, that is very unusual
So now I have removed the audio card and de-installed its drivers
The first pros I found is that I can use a lower sample-rate, 16 bits instead of 24 bits, and I can also go down to 44 KHz if needed, so I can set a smaller buffer having a lower latency
The second kind of crash is linked to deleting/swapping sample-based plugins, and it is easier to fix: when I audit my various plugins, instead of deleting and swapping them, I can put all them in a project, then muting/demuting them at taste
OR
I can create multiple projects where the only difference is the kind of plugins inside
This is not a workflow I am accustomed to, but maybe I can live with it
I’ll let you know
I audited for hours a lot of patterns using this set, and I had no crashes
Now I have to help my wife and brothers-in-law to empty and sell a big villa full of 2-centuries garbage collected by my pathologic parents-in-law, then me and my wife will move in a new refreshing mountains’ home
After the move, I’ll set a dedicated PC to make music only, but in the meanwhile, I can keep jamming with my weak PC and Wasapi
And now that the audio is reliable, I sold AL and I got Bitwig
To recap: removing the faulty audio-card, uninstalling its drivers, and using Bitwig I have no more crashes, both closing a project or swapping an instrument
BINGO