[RWP] introduction and a question?

[indigo]

The fact that Creative is showing up in your audio device field, 
probably means you once had a Creative card in there, a Live or Audigy 
2, any model, those Creative drivers aren't always removed after 
uninstalling the program; and can cause problems
You should find the word Disabled after Creative, and the word Enabled 
after M-Audio or AudioPhile.
I'm not sure  how much trouble they cause for an AudioPhile, but they'll 
wreck any Creative family member, like the Emu cardsI installed later in 
my old music computer.
It's good to get rid of lurking old drivers anyway, all useless old 
programs only clog the works and slow up the computer.

I'd do a computer search with the words creative, or Sound Blaster, or 
Asio, and delete anything the old soundcard.
Be sure it's not your AudioPhile asio driver, of course.

If your Audiophile is correctly reporting its unavoidable latency, and 
the option in audio device is checked to let reaper compensate for  that 
reported latency, you can get down to very minimal latency, under 5 ms.
Even after taking care of those settings, there are still more that can 
be made if needed.
  None of us need to use all of Reaper's thousands of possible settings, 
they're there just in case, but otherwise default settings should be 
left unchanged.
Toward the bottom of the options preferences audio device are offset 
settings; so Reaper automatically offsets   any amound of latency you 
enter there.
you can try entering numbers in those edit boxes, I seem to remember 
they are milliseconds with a dash or minus sign ahead of them, with the 
result that all your audio tracks align exactly.


AS to issues with Reaper version 4.15, if menus don't drop, when you 
press the applications key, press ctrl+up Arrow, first; then press the 
applications key and the menus will appear.
Indigo L
On 3/15/2012 8:59 PM, Joe Paton wrote:
> Hi Indigo,
>
> I've just updated to 4.15 of reaper. I've managed to utilize the asio
> driver for the m-audio card. before doing that, under audio, devices,
> there is wdm kernel streaming, direct sound, wave out, asio.
> dummy audio and an experimental option for vista machines i think.
> if you shift-tab from say wave-out or direct sound, 6 times there's a
> sample box edit field or whatever. In here, I got the samples down to
> 304 before crackling and jitter or what ever it's called. Anyway we
> don't want it.
> That setting gave me a reasonable result. So honestly I don't know if
> i've adjusted the correct buffers for latency or not, but it seems to
> have done the trick. Then of course I found the asio tree view, and
> after the machine going in to a temporary state of animation because I
> don't have a creative card installed, but reaper has a creative asio
> driver which is above the m-audio driver,, in the list, by hitting the
> end key it bypassed the creative driver and hit the one I needed. Are
> you confused yet? I somehow doubt it.
>
> Anyway indigo your guideance got me right where I needed to be, what
> with that and upgrading to 4.15 at this stage seems good. Any snags with
> this release and rea access?
>
> It's one o'clock in the mmorning, i'm having a last smoke and off to sleep.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Joe
>
> p.s.
> I don't envy you the hassle of midi at all.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> there's direct sound, At 22:57 15/03/2012, you wrote:
>> Joe, I can't get into my Emu control panel either, but I'm getting
>> away with it by setting buffer settings in Reaper.
>> Press ctrl+P to go to Reaper's preferences.
>> Try to find the tree view with Reaper's topics.
>> In version 3.78 I found it at my number pad, with the PC cursor,
>> called mouse pointer in WindowEyes.
>> I just noticed that in Reaper 4.15 i found the topics in a tree view
>> at my arrow keys.
>> Looking down the list in the topics tree view; you'll find Audio, and
>> below that Device, where you set your AudioPhile sound card as enabled.
>> Below that is Midi Device, where you need to get your midi ports from
>> your sound card enabled, if you want to use a midi keyboard.
>> Then, the next topic down is Buffer.
>> Tab down in buffer settings and set your audio buffer to a lower setting.
>> Reaper's default buffer size is an enormous 1200 samples, which gives
>> a lot of latency, or delay.
>> On this older computer I set it to 128 samples.
>> On my faster computer I think it's at 64 samples, which provides about
>> 5 milliseconds or less of latency.
>> Hope this helps,
>> Indigo L
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/15/2012 5:23 PM, Joe Paton wrote:
>>> Hello Chris and chrissie,
>>> good to see both you faces again after a long while.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris It's an audiofile 24/96 running on xp pro.
>>>
>>> It's a recent control pannel, and I haven't the faintest idea where the
>>> buffer settings are. Where in reaper would I look for these?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> At 21:17 15/03/2012, you wrote:
>>>> what is your soundcard's buffer setting? this may be accessible
>>>> through reaper, but is probably accessed through the sound card's
>>>> control pannel software itself.
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