[RWP] introduction and a question?

[indigo]

The only way around high latency  is to buy a decent sound card.
I don't know what's something good to recommend, since I got started on 
Emu cards, which have extremely low latency, but impossible control panels.
Chris Belle on Midi Mag has a couple of delta cards for sale.
He'd make you a good deal, and they're sturdy and full featured cards.
His address is:
cb1963 at sbcglobal.net
You could get a pro level card for the price of a cheap new card
He's just built a new studio and doesn't need them now.
Tell him I mentioned his delta cards, and he'll help.
Indigo L.



On 3/15/2012 11:18 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
> it definitely lowers the latency compared with the wdm or direct sound
> drivers, but it's still very much there.
> enough to throw off guitar recordings and metronome clicks and so on.
> guitarists need zero latency to properly multi-track.
> even vocals would be off on my system right now unless you wanted that
> slight delay for an echo effect.
> about half the latency as before, but still very much there.
> I'm using asio for all V2.1.
>
> Regards
> Colin
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] introduction and a question?
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>> I haven't done it, only read about it, but it is said the asio4all
>> driver you can download from the web can get latency very low from
>> even the RealTech built in sound.
>> It's worth a try.
>> Indigo
>>
>>
>> On 3/15/2012 9:43 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
>>> I'll have to reinstall asio drivers, then try these suggestions.
>>> I tried adjusting these properties before, with no success in lowering
>>> the latency using the onboard realtech sound card.
>>> I know, crappy sound card, but I should have been able to at least
>>> reduce it somewhat.
>>> I'll try again with asio drivers on a mostly clean system.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Colin
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] introduction and a question?
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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