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

Tue May 28 05:26:16 EDT 2013

have you guys tried  the other windows house keeping  things as well? Killing all the unneeded things that start up and sit in ram when windows starts. Making sure nothing else is running besides reaper and screen reader? Bumping up reaper's priority in the process view of task manager? Threr are  lots of articles out there of optimizing a PC for audio recording, may be oath a read. But like everyone here says, realtek and asio isn't the best place to start from, so some of these may help even if  you are running better hardware.
On May 27, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Colin McDonald <blulemon at telus.net> wrote:

> 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
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> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 7:32 PM
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> 
> 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
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> 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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