Thanks for all the response. It’s nice to see many here with lot of experience with the program.

First of all. I have now tested with the settings from Noels image. Beside I also changed delay to 104 ms.

I don’t have English interface, so I just guess that this path is called something like: Audio/audio driver settings. It seems that this is another driver menu than the “Midi driver” from the image.

In the midi driver I have chosen Microsoft GS wavetable as suggested. And in the other audio driver menu I changed from Roland VS-20 to Microsoft Sound Mapper.

With this setup I have now played back for 20 minutes without droputs, and this has only happened a few times before.

Noel

For the moment I use Avast, but I have had dropouts when I was using AVG, kaspersky and also while turning off antivirus.


Guitarhacker

About ASIO I have also wondered, why I could not select it. I have downloaded the latest updates for the Roland driver. I believed it should work with both with windows 7 and 8. I mean, at least it seems to work for some people when I google.

Thomann have a good return policy, so if no other solution seem to be stable, I can try one of their sound interfaces. Maybe some here even have good experience with one of their less expensive models?

http://www.thomann.de/gb/audio_interfaces.html

Matt Finley

It’s a Lenovo Idea PC and the system information window write:

Processor Intel i3-3220 – 3,3 Ghz.

In my attempts to solve the problem, I have previous downloaded a program called LatencyMon, which should be able to test if dropouts can occour. This program run for long time and saying my system is suitable. Except in one or two tests, where it has said it could help, if I changed a setting in the bios. I looked for this setting possibility, but I couldn’t find it in my bios.

About the processor, it does not seem to be loaded very heavy in the task manager, when the dropouts begin. It looks more like as if the bottleneck is caused by a 100 percent disk usage. One of the processes I tracked on the internet and found it had something to do with compiling program. This I think could also be in accordance with problem with the driver.

Running Geekbench I get

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2080073

Single-core score 2454
Multi core score 5465

When I run DPC I have only get yellow stribes except one or two green.


MarioD

Yes I have installed the latest driver for windows 8.1. But now I can see as you tell, that they write limited compatibility for the 32-bit edition. I have 64-bit edition

http://roland.com/support/article/?q=information&id=63060593

but it is the same about limited. More specific under audio interface they write limited for Cakewalk FA-66 and with a link to a compatible driver. Not sure if this could help me.

http://roland.com/support/article/?q=downloads&p=FA-66&id=62798653

Anyway, I also had the problem under windows 7. But all in all, it seem there is a big chance that the Roland VS-20 is not very stable. On the other side maybe it will work if I don’t use their driver?

Again, thanks a lot to everybody for the help

Best regards
Henrik