I know Linux is not supported but mg1 and mg2 never had an issue working. This just blinks out. Doesn’t load.
Hope whatever changed can get worked out, will try the future releases and hope for the best.
Thanks for all your work.
Steve
After a couple of minutes it was working great for me.
Looking forward to the next Beta and the VST plugins version.
I’m just using a Guitar to trigger my many VST synths.
For some reason it still cuts out to the purchase menu even though I’ve received and I believe activated it.
A fantastic achievement…congratulations!
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I thought my “clicking” problem had miraculously gone away - but no.
The MIDI stuff is working fine The clicking problem only seems to occur when I use 3rd party amps in the chain. Tested with Amplitude and Blue Cat Amp. Any thoughts?
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Clicking/popping in audio applications is a general problem when your system cant keep up with the processing load:
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Maybe your CPU throttles. Generally higher buffersizes reduce the load. The multithreading option can help as well.
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Maybe you have DPC latency, which is caused by something in your system briefly interrupting the audio processing. Check for DPC latency:
Shameless/Unofficial first MIDI Guitar 3 BETA for Windows - #20 by JamO
Thanks Joe,
Looked into this last night.
Turned off throttling.
Ran a DPC check - that wasn’t too good, maybe someone with better PC smarts than I have could volunteer to go over the results?? 
I’m suspecting that it may be time to retire my old Line 6 UX2, which is no longer supported.
Looking at replacing with Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen USB Audio Interface, anyone using one of these?
My next step is working through " The Ultimate Guide to Optimize your Windows PC for the Stage" (thanks Herold)
I’m stuck on MG2 until I can sort this - MG3 is basically unusable for me as things stand.
I retired my UX2 years ago - it was a great device with some pretty solid sounds in the Line6 software as I recall - but the newer generation of interfaces are far more reliable and compatible. The focusrites are terrific - personally I use a behinger UMC404HD which has simply worked and never really got in the way fo anything. ymmv.
in the $200 price range another option is the motu m2. i’ve used its brother (m4) in a variety of circumstances with mg2 and it works reliably.
on your dpc issues, i invested a fair bit of time with not much payback on this type of problem earlier this year.
perhaps the most effective partial ‘solution’ was process lasso:
but it required more management and oversight than i was willing to give it.
this post suggests the ‘balanced’ power plan on win11 and an external display instead of the laptop’s screen, as well as process lasso. strange, but apparently it worked.
Amplifiers from the following developers tested:
Lostin70S, Melda, Mercuriall, Nembrini, Neural Amp Modeler, Neural DSP, Overloud, Voxengo.
All work perfectly with few CPU cycles even in my old 2012 Lenovo i5-3320.
@JamO Only S-Gear3 by Scuffham Amps does not work at all: I hear a crackling sound of a few milliseconds every time I attack a note and nothing more.
I hope it gets better because it’s my main amp. 
That gives me some hope Herold
I’m using an HP ProBook 450 G4, HP
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
I’ll give a couple of those amps a try.
Hey kimyo,
Pricing on the motu m2 are a bit higher here than the Focusrite but worth a look (you should be able to test drive these things 
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I’m currently looking at updating drivers, hopefully that might work - I’ll also try the disabling the monitor trick.
Welcome to the forum Serge,
Yup - I thought I’d need to replace my UX2 when I moved to Windows 10 but the thing just kept on going… even though it probably shouldn’t have!
there are some hp probook 450’s listed here, unfortunately all have very high (bad) scores in their native state:
a problem is that laptops are tweaked for power savings and graphics performance. we want neither.
a recycled five year old corporate desktop will probably provide superior performance than most modern laptops in terms of music production.
some u.s. vendors will accept returns on audio interfaces. it’s impossible to know if this type of gear plays nicely with one’s particular combination of hw and sw without giving it a full road test.
Wow - that is a very comprehensive list!
I’m in country Queensland Australia - it can get expensive in freight alone!
I also vouch for MOTU, I had a M2 then a M4 for awhile…only to one day replace them with MOTU 8 Pre USB!
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@JamO If a License is purchased now for Windows beta version of Midi Guitar 3, will the ‘interruptions’ page be switched off so the it runs continuously? Thanks.
As been said here many times that if you purchase a MG2 license, there will not be interruptions at all with the beta and you will have free MG3 when ready.
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Thank you for clarification. I’m a new member and haven’t read all past posts. 
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Testing MG3 for Windows on my desktop and Surface Pro. MG3 doesn’t let me use a higher buffer size than 256 which I sometimes need on the Surface. It provides a warning and tries to force the issue. I would remove that limitation for our lower end systems which work fine on MG2.
I also cannot active MG3 on my second machine. Is this a limitation on the testing or something I’m doing wrong.
Is anyone using KONTAKT 7 with MG3 Standalone?
If so, are there any audio dropouts or glitching with string, orchestra, layered presets?
Is it too CPU intensive or not?
My laptop is 2Ghz and I have issues with Pigments 5 and Falcon 3 so am trying to find replacements that don’t glitch when using layered string presets.
Thanks!
@MGX
The CPU load is very moderate (like with any other VST) and I do not have any glitches or dropouts using Kontakt 7. However I think that not only a “weak” CPU might cause dropouts but also MB speed and RAM.
Here my system specs:
