[RWP] useing asio driver with reaper

[Chris Belle]

More to this, if you are going to use microphones and or record line level 
audio, the realtek cards are terrible, they combine line and mic connections 
and have that choose your input/output thing instead of dedicated ore-amps 
which even older consumer cards had, the impedances won't match, and your 
asking for terrible signal to noise ratio, and distortion.

They also color the sound because they have that audio effects thing and 
built in presets for eq, so you'll never get a true sound.

Good enough for your surround sound or stereo audio for your mp3 collection, 
but not serious recording.

You won't get balanced connections on those 8th inch connectors either, 
signal to noise again.

So even a very modest prosumer or pro audio interface is better, also the 
internal cards can cause high dpc latencies themselves, on professional 
purpose built daws, they are often disabled by default for sighted people, 
who don't need speech anyway, but we haveto bend that rule ofcourse.

I've seen dpc latencies drop from 1000 to 50 us just by disabling the 
realtek card and using another one for speech even if you don't turn off 
hpet or do any other tweaks.

usb is the lamest performer in the audio realm compared to firewire, and or 
pci or pci express but you'll get something approaching proper pre-amps and 
line level inputs instrument inputs for audio gear, synths, guitars, mics, 
etc.

Ok, that's your audio 101 primer for beginners this morning.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] useing asio driver with reaper


It's best to get a real audio interface and leave the junk cards in your
mobo for speech or general use.

Even if your a novice,k your music is worth buying a 80 dollar lexicon
alpha, or a presonus audiobox or even a delta card not recommended for w7,
to do your music with.

I once had a student who inssisted she could run sonar ona netbook, and we
wasted lots of time trying to do that.

Ridiculous.

But people will do anything thinking they are getting a bargain and spend
weeks trying to make it work and being more frustrated, and bugging
everyone, because they think they know better 'smile'.

Always use the right tools for the job if you can im summary.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <khoath at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] useing asio driver with reaper



The thing you must remember with asio4all is that it uses kernel
streaming to achieve low latency.
As a result you can not share the card with any other program so make
sure that reaper is the only thing using your asio4all device and that
your screen reader is elsewhere.
Many Realtek cards and HDDA cards have 1 or 2 playback streams, mixing
the rest in software. This means Once asio4all has hold of your card
there are no streams left for your screen reader or system sounds.
route accordingly so that you only use the asio4all card for sound work.

You can pull nasty tricks with asio4all and virtual audio cable however
watch cpu use and latency.

Regards, Kerry.

regards, Kerry.

On 31/10/2012 7:08 AM, Daniel Santana wrote:
> Hi,
> I was also trying to set up this drive to use in real-time...
> However, I could not did it. The solution I found was decrease samples 
> from 1024to
> 256, using the same drive from
> microsoft...
>
> I hope that's help!
> - Daniel -
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: MATT TURNER<METURNER88 at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Para: reaper<rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Data: Terça, 30 de Outubro de 2012 18:16
> Assunto: [RWP] useing asio driver with reaper
>
> hay there, I'm trying to configure the asio for all driver to work with
> reaper.
> not sure how to go about dooing this.
> anyone got any tips?
>
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