Hi. I’ve noticed since updating to WL12 on initial opening up of a session and pressing play I have to wait for 5 seconds before music begins to playing. I never had this issue in WL11.2. I do have a handful of plugins running.
Maybe I don’t a certain parameter switched on somewhere? can anyone help?
When WaveLab is launched, it doesn’t initialize the audio device immediately. This occurs during the first playback or recording attempt, which may take a moment depending on the driver and sample rate. WaveLab takes this approach, unlike other DAWs, to speed up launch time and because it’s sometimes used without playback (e.g., for batch processing or pure rendering tasks).
Have to ask even if you use “Built-in Audio” with your Mac ?
Maybe bluetooth keyboard or something else in system!
I have Mac Book AIR from 2020 with M1 and start of any
Audio file or Montage without plugin it starts directly in WL 12.0.30
By design, the playback engine is not initialized when launching WaveLab, to have a shorter launch time. Hence, it is initialized the 1st time play or record is used. For most audio drivers, this is under 500 milliseconds. This can take longer if the sample rate needs to be changed.
Actually, you can change this by opening WaveLab with the startup dialog and have the audio device controls visible. In that case, initialization takes place at this time.
If your playback takes 5 seconds to start, then initializing during startup would add another 5 seconds.
However, if your audio device takes that long to start and this is inconvenient for you, you might want to consider upgrading to a better audio device. What is your current device?
Not on my Windoze 10 Pro WL 12 current update system … or any of the devices (RME HDSPe AIO Pro/Lavry/RME ADI-2). Play is essentially ‘immediate’.
FWIW, an almost identical issue was reported quite some time ago that affected certain RME devices (and not just in WL). RME promptly addressed this with an updated driver.