[Rwp] New to the List and a question about ASIO Driver

[Patrick Perdue]

Short answer: yes. With nothing special, you can select the Focusrite 
Asio driver in Reaper, and have much low latency than can be achieved 
with Audacity, especially the case with DirectSound, which is horribly 
latent. On some systems, you can get reasonably OK(ish) or at least 
useable latency with MME, or at least decent enough to mix on if you 
don't have anything better at the time.

  You may be able to decrease the latency of your Focusrite further by 
enabling "request block size" in Reaper's audio/device preferences, and 
using a lower number of buffers, such as 64 or 96. This, for most but 
not all audio interfaces, overrides the default latency setting in the 
control panel for that device. Not sure if it does for the 2i2 as I 
don't own one. This doesn't work with my MOTU interfaces. I have to 
change that setting in the MOTU Audio Console, but this does work with 
all of my other audio interfaces.

Be careful not to set that value to the point where putting a bit of 
load on your system causes audio crackling or drop-outs.

On 12/3/2015 9:45 AM, Marion & Martin wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>                  I am a solo musician, as well as a music director for a
> church in Tampa, Florida. I was referred to this list by a couple of
> subscribers to the NFB’s Performing Arts Division. Last Christmas I
> purchased a Focusrite 2i2 audio interface and soon found out it didn’t
> work well with Audacity, since Audacity is not compatible with the ASIO
> driver used by the interface. Before I get too involved in trying to use
> Reaper, can someone tell me if I can use the interface and its drivers
> without the latency I experience with Audacity? Any input would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Marion Gwizdala
>
> “Marion & Martin”
>
>
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