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Posted by Trancevision on Jul-17-2002 12:39:

Latency in Reason

I got an old Pentium Celeron with about 500Mhz and 192MB Ram.
I want to play notes with my QS300 Synth sending these notes to
Reason.
But the latency makes it impossible to play realtime, because it takes about half a second until
Reason reacts on my key at my Synth.

Do you know how can I improve latency ?

Does anyone have a faster computer doing the same like me and not having those problems ?

Trancevision

Posted by phasedout on Jul-17-2002 23:30:

I'm only getting some latency..probably a fraction of second but i can still notice it.

my setup is an old p2 266 running on a 440fx chipset with 128 mb of edo ram...all this is on windows 2000 *have to swap constantly* using the midi interface from the ess soundcard i have

i'm planning to move over to a p2 433 on a 440bx with 192 mb of sdram running windows 2000, hopefully latency will be lower..

Posted by Ray_Finkle on Jul-17-2002 23:44:

stupid question but have you guys played around with the latency bar in the midi settings? lower it until you can hear pops and cracks then it is as low as your soundcard will allow

Posted by phasedout on Jul-18-2002 01:03:

Yeah, its a tad higher than where it would crack at.

Posted by Ray_Finkle on Jul-18-2002 02:03:

Then I'm assuming it is your computer. Once you upgrade, it should go away.
SOrry I can't help you any further...

Have you DLed new ASIO drivers?/have you tried ASIO?

I'm only throwing out possible suggestions/

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jul-18-2002 10:19:

I should think that only by getting a better soundcard you should get a considerably lower latency...

Then again - I have no idea whether it actually works...

Posted by flutlicht junky on Jul-18-2002 12:42:

Its the soundcard that affects latency not the pc. I take it you have got a soundblaster? Do you know what kind?

A good soundcard will allow either asio or direct x drivers. ASIO is the most commonly used lowest latency drivers.

Posted by MekTek on Jul-18-2002 20:28:

yup lateency (as long as your not overloading your cpu and spiking) determines your latency. Sound blasters are, no offense of course, crap for music production. invest in another sound card to get better latency. until then, use the ASIO drivers for the SB live to get lower latency.

Posted by phasedout on Jul-19-2002 17:50:

Do they have the asio drivers for the soundblaster ensoniq pci?

Posted by MekTek on Jul-19-2002 18:37:

sorry bro, i don't think they have ASIO drivers for the ensoniq. i did a search on google n the SB site but couldn't find ASIO drivers for the ensoniq..it's their low end sound card, so i doubted they would have ASIO drivers for it, but i gave it a go anyways.

Posted by phasedout on Jul-19-2002 21:30:

ahh ok...thanks anyways man

Posted by phasedout on Jul-20-2002 01:47:

hmm, i just installed cubase sx and the computer with the ensoniq passed the asio driver test..wonder if that is real or not

Posted by MekTek on Jul-20-2002 08:26:

nope. thats a general asio driver. it's not one specifically for your card so the latency is horrid.

Posted by phasedout on Jul-20-2002 14:32:

aww ok, well i'll just play with this thing until i get another soundcard

Posted by MekTek on Jul-20-2002 16:40:

good luck n have fun.

Posted by DamnDirtyApe on Jul-21-2002 04:52:

Wow, I can't imagine trying to run Reason 2 on a 266Mhz computer! Mine is 750 and it uses up 100% of my cpu when things get fairly complicated. I can still almost always do realtime though..

Posted by phasedout on Jul-21-2002 23:40:

Yeah, well i haven't done anything really extensive with reason yet but using sampler, redrum, and 2 subtractor synths brings the cpu utilization up to probably 50%-60%

Posted by DamnDirtyApe on Jul-22-2002 01:17:

heh, time for an upgrade.. It's funny that no games really tax my computer enough to make me want to buy a new CPU, but this silly music making program brings it to it's knees.

Posted by phasedout on Jul-22-2002 04:49:

heh, yeah well im almost done fixing up the 433 so it will be a bit better....