[RWP] useing asio driver with reaper

Wed Oct 31 09:25:35 EDT 2012

Now one point with the below:

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.

That stuff can be turned off in windows 7 and the audio does indeed 
bypass the affects chain completely. Sounds far far nicer.

Sure they are rubbish from an snr perspective but they can be made to 
perform better than dreadful with a few system tweaks.

disabling hpet? You probably wouldn't want to do this on a machine that 
wasn't dedicated to audio as the ACPI subsystem uses this for 
high-resolution timing.
I'll google see if I can find who suggests turning this off, there is no 
better highspeed timing source in a pc as applications can't use the 
timestamp counters easily.

regards, Kerry.

On 31/10/2012 8:54 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
> 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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