First note muted after a few seconds of inactivity

operator612 · 2025-06-18T19:36:47+00:00

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Hi, is this a common problem? It's like something decides to go to sleep after no keys were pressed on the piano keyboard for a few seconds.

Following the support article, I've disabled USB device sleeping for all USB root hubs, and selective sleeping in the Power Plan settings.

My setup is I'm just running Kontakt 8 that takes input from the KK S88 keyboard and outputs to the WASAPI Shared audio device. Just to reiterate: it is not a latency issue, it is a going to sleep after a few seconds of inactivity issue. After the first key press, all following key presses produce immediate audio without any problems. Until the next idle pause.

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operator612

After the first (muted) key press, all following key presses produce immediate audio without any problems.

LostInFoundation

Only time I’ve seen something like this was with a specific portable speaker (in my case House of Marley Get Together) and it was a “function” of the speaker itself.

What are you using to listen to the produced sound?

JesterMgee

My guess is you are using your built-in audio device of your computer with the Shared Audio? Some motherboards include a very cheap chip that is no better than a tin can really and my bet would be a better audio interface with ASIO compatible drivers would fix the issue. Could also try switch it to the WASAPI Exclusive driver or try your luck at downloading the Asio4All driver but both these options may fix this issue at the cost of allowing only your DAW to work with the audio. A proper multi-client audio interface that can run both WASAPI Shared audio and ASIO audio at the same time is the best of all worlds.

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