[RWP] Latency

[Jim Snowbarger]

indigo, sorry, I had not seen this yet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:57 PM
Subject: [RWP] Latency


>I solved the excess midi latency problem.
> Audio settings do affect midi latency extremely, as I read in posts in 
> Cockos forums.
> First, in Options/audio  I set the buffer size to 128 samples, said to 
> be a reasonable comprimise, instead of the original default 1200 samples.
> Some users with fast computers report that 64 samples is enough for the 
> audio buffer.
> Tabbing down in the audio settings I found that my EMu sound card's ASIO 
> driver had accidentally become replaced with a generic ASIO driver 
> that's on my computer.
> Trying to learn what changes I could make in that ASIO driver that 
> occupied the edit box, like right clicking on it, hitting enter on it, I 
> right arrowed on it and discovered that my named EMu ASIO driver 
> suddenly appeared there.
> I don't know how it got replaced with the generic driver, maybe I 
> snagged that selection somehow by accident earlier.
> Also, a few tabs down from there is a button to configure my EMu ASIO 
> driver.
> I hit enter on it and got a small dialog that didn't let me set the 
> buffer size in my E-Mu control panel with speech, as I hoped, but did 
> let me set latency.
> I set it to 5ms for now, if I hear no crackling I'll go back and set it 
> lower.
> I also checked the option in audio to use the reported latency from the 
> sound card.
> This is important, since Reaper uses the reported latency  to calculate 
> compensation for the sound card's  latency.
> 
> Now, with 5ms latency, when running various soft synths, they feel like 
> I'm playing hardware synths, with midi latency low enough to not be a 
> problem.
> 
> 
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