Carbon / AVB performance woes

[martthie_08]

so I'm moving back and forth between the HDX rig in my recording studio, headphones on the road with Airpods and my mix / edit room with Carbon.

It is simply insane the amount of CPU Carbon needs for sessions that run absolutely smoothly on HDX (hardly using any DSP plugs) or even on the road with CoreAudio. A rough estimate would be I have to reserve 25% of CPU just to not have 9173 errors on the Carbon rig.

While I do understand this seems to be more of an issue with Apple's implementation of AVB it is nevertheless super annoying.

It would be seriously useful for me to have a plugin that eats up the appropriate amount of CPU doing nothing (while on HDX) to be able to continue working on my Carbon rig without 9173's.

Just out of curiousity, is this something Apple / AVID are working on improving? I'm still on Ventura, but had the same experience on Monterey..

sorry for the rant, but just wanted to point this out and would be thankful for any advice, thanks. btw. buffer size is fixed for me at 256 and I don't want to change it.