If you're only using one monitor, then yea the easiest thing will be not passing through a card and just trying to reduce the various related latencies as much as you can. I guess I shouldn't just assume everyone has a multi-monitor setup. Of course if that's not possible then that's the way it is and I have to accept it.Īnother problem I'm thinking about is that I won't be able to passthrough the soundcard to Windows and still have sound coming out of it from Ubuntu - so I'd need to use a second soundcard and then have a mixer to combine their outputs! What I'd like ideally is to have my cake and eat it too - to be able to run Ubuntu, but have Ableton running just like a native window - so I can move it to any monitor, minimize it, etc. I'm not just entirely focused on Ableton, I just muck around for fun while I'm doing other stuff.Ĭan you have a separate GPU doing the graphics processing for a VM in a window on a different GPU? Hope I explained that ok.

That was one of the reason I didn't really want to dual boot. I'm just a music hobbyist and I like to switch between web browser/vlc/whatever and Ableton while I'm just screwing around. I'd be fine with having another GPU, but the problem for me is that as I understand that would mean that only Ableton can be on that monitor. Happy to help you achieve a similar setup. My latency is just about as good as it's going to get with Windows vs Mac. There are a bunch more tiny optimizations I've made that also contribute to its viability.

I use hugetables to prevent memory-related issues. I lock down my cores in such a way that Windows has access to three physical cores and my host machine has access to only one. I pass through a dedicated ASIO-compatible soundcard, dedicated GPU and dedicated USB controller which takes care of most of the DPC latency and latencies due to USB host translation. Crackling only happens because of DPC latency, cache misses, or heavy write operations outside of the VM. If I had more cores and moved Windows to a separate SSD, then I think that would completely get rid of crackling. I haven't 100% eliminated all crackling yet. I use Ableton in a VM and it works great, but I wouldn't use it for live performances just to be sure.

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