[RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper

[Colin McDonald]

yes, you are supposed to be able to manually offset the latency...but it 
doesn't work that way in reaper.  That is to say, the fields and 
functionality exists, but it doesn't actually do the trick like it did with 
audacity using the same pc and onboard sound card.
Yeah, I know, the onboard soundcard, lack of ram and 9 year old computer 
running a 2.8GHZ processor, 512MB of ram and xp service pack two don't help 
my situation.
My only point was that in audacity the latency offset actually allowed you 
to buffer everything so that it was very very close to in sink.  Reaper has 
all the right fields and settings and so on, but none of them appear to 
actually change anything.
I've gone through every single area which has anything to do with buffering 
or latency sound card samples etc etc and the only thing that reduces 
latency is to reduce the sample size...but when I get below 192 or so, the 
audio gets really bad and distorted and has that low sample rate crunchy 
sound to it.
it breaks up and sometimes won't even play back or record anything when set 
below 192.
The fix, I know is to get a newer computer, more ram, proper audio interface 
and then my problem will disappear.
Sometimes I still use audacity for multi-track recording because of the 
issue in reaper.
I can make it sink with the system I've got.

regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper


> You certainly can manually subtract the latency in Reaper's latency 
> offset.
> It's near the end of the list you tab to in audio device, if I remember.
> I haven't needed it, so can't give details how to use, but it has edit 
> fields to enter milliseconds.
> If you need less latency; enter something in those fields and report back 
> if it helped.
> That's a sledgehammer approach to a latency problem though.
> What if the actual problem is lack of the latest USB midi driver, or too 
> huge an audio buffer size; or a cheapo soundcard with large processing 
> latency, it would be so much better to handle those first.
> Indi
>
> On 5/27/2013 4:34 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
>> at least in audacity you could taylor the offset so that you ended up 
>> with very little latency...reaper doesn't appear to have anything that 
>> will do that.
>> I've tried everything in reaper to offset the latency that I could kill 
>> with audacity on the same machines using the same sound cards.
>> Asio, WDM and direct sound and the rest don't seem to make a whole lot of 
>> difference on my stuff...I'm still stuck with probably a 2 or 300MS 
>> latency issue.
>>
>> regards
>> Colin
>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>    From: Chris Belle
>>    To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>    Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 11:33 AM
>>    Subject: Re: [RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper
>>
>>
>>    What are you using for an interface?
>>
>>    If your not using a professional audio device, or aren't in asio or 
>> wdm mode, then your timing could be dodgy.
>>
>>    It's the same problem with audacity a nice multi-tracker that's free 
>> but because it doesn't support accepted low latency high precission 
>> standards for recording, you have to set an off-set which will vary with 
>> each sound card, and even then might not work quite right.
>>    depending on what mode you are in.
>>
>>
>>
>>      ----- Original Message -----
>>      From: kyle
>>      To: rwp at reaaccess.com
>>      Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 7:24 AM
>>      Subject: [RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper
>>
>>
>>      Hi,
>>      I have a problem with reaper. At least, i think its a problem with 
>> reaper. I can record all my tracks, and then go back to listen to them. 
>> for example, a drum track and piano track, and they are out of time. I 
>> know i've recorded them in time, and its starting to get a little old 
>> using wav files and mixing them down.
>>      Any help would be appriciated.
>>
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