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

[Colin McDonald]

Further to this, I found I can lengthen the latency as much as I want, through the recording and playback latency controls.  but it won't change below a certain offset number.  So if I put a big number in there, I can increase the latency, but less than say 200MS it doesn't seem to change at all.  So my conclusion is that it's in the hardware and or processing more than anything else.
It's just odd that I can get that latency right down to nothing in audacity by using a negative value in the record/play offset fields.
Trust me, I've spent hours trying to tweak things and I can get it to have a slightly lesser delay time, but still very large compared to how it should be.
The best way I've found to measure latency is to run a sound source, like a drum machine, into the sound card, then use the record monitor (F8) set to normal I think, and you can hear the huge latency between the signal playing through the sound card, and reaper playing it through the record monitor.
I do it this way because that is how one would organize things during a multi-track over dub recording.

It is possible I am missing something, but like I said, I've done extensive tests to get rid of that latency and it just will not reduce to less than a certain amount.

Regards
Colin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colin McDonald 
  To: Reapers Without Peepers 
  Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 7:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper


  did that...tried lots of different rates and it does minimize it a bit, but still it's a good 200MS.
  shrug, it's the sound card and processing power of the machine.

  Regards
  Colin
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jim Snowbarger 
    To: Reapers Without Peepers 
    Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 7:26 PM
    Subject: Re: [RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper


    Look at buffering time, both on play back and recording, and shrink those down to the lowest level that still provides reliable performance.   That will help a lot.

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Colin McDonald 
      To: Reapers Without Peepers 
      Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 3:34 PM
      Subject: Re: [RWP] I'm having trouble with latency and reaper


      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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