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How important are soundcards REALLY? (pg. 3)
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| costizzle |
| i have a soundblaster soundcard and its pretty top of the line yet when i connect my midi controller to it and try to run sounds off my synth and synth sounds in cubase it lags when i press the keys. i heard about latency and put my sample rate all the way down but that doesnt seem to help...any suggestions? |
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| kitphillips |
Lol:stongue:
1/ all soundcards have latency
2/ sound blaster are NOT top of the line and hence have even more latency than most sound cards.
3/ sample rate has nothing to do with latency, most soundcards have a setting called buffer or latency which you can lower
4/ Please explain what you mean about synths? Are you trying to route MIDI out of cubase and into a hardware synth, or trying to route midi out of your keyboard...? |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by costizzle
i have a soundblaster soundcard and its pretty top of the line yet when i connect my midi controller to it and try to run sounds off my synth and synth sounds in cubase it lags when i press the keys. i heard about latency and put my sample rate all the way down but that doesnt seem to help...any suggestions? |
Dude, I already told you what you have to do in the thread you started specifically for this issue. :p
Your audio buffer is too long, you need to shorten it.
Sorry to dissapoint, but soundblasters are far from top of the line, infact theyre basically bottom of the line :p. If you want to get any decent performance out of it, you need to install an ASIO driver. ASIO is a low latency sound driver basically... Seeing as soundblasters don't come with an official ASIO driver, you need to download and install ASIO4ALL. Google it ;) |
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| echosystm |
| $10 says this guy is rubez? |
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| kitphillips |
| Mwa ha I got to laugh at the newbie first:p |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
Mwa ha I got to laugh at the newbie first:p |
Yeah... but my post count is still 6 inches longer than yours :haha: |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
$10 says this guy is rubez? |
Lol, just read that other thread he posterd, obviously new, but still, quite polite compared to rubez... Costizzle, do yourself and everyone else a favour and read the stickies, then read the manual. Once you do this, if it is still unclear what is going on, nothing anyone here says can help you. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
Dude, I already told you what you have to do in the thread you started specifically for this issue. :p
Your audio buffer is too long, you need to shorten it.
Sorry to dissapoint, but soundblasters are far from top of the line, infact theyre basically bottom of the line :p. If you want to get any decent performance out of it, you need to install an ASIO driver. ASIO is a low latency sound driver basically... Seeing as soundblasters don't come with an official ASIO driver, you need to download and install ASIO4ALL. Google it ;) |
i've used ASIO4ALL and it doesn't seem to make a difference in latency. i still get clicks and pops in FL studio if i have too many VSTs running at once and guitar rig still lags like a bitch. is that because i'm using a cheap-ass SB USB card, or is my comp not good enough? (AMD 3400+ 64bit processor, 1gb RAM) |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
i've used ASIO4ALL and it doesn't seem to make a difference in latency. i still get clicks and pops in FL studio if i have too many VSTs running at once and guitar rig still lags like a bitch. is that because i'm using a cheap-ass SB USB card, or is my comp not good enough? (AMD 3400+ 64bit processor, 1gb RAM) |
So many issues here, I think we already discussed ASIO4ALL and snap crackle and pop in this thread, so read back for that, short version: no ASIO4ALL won't help. Yes the soundblaster is crap, upgrading would help... maybe... a bit.
Your computer should be good enough too, but your expecting too much out of a computer to expect to play a live guitar in and use that as an amp modeller. Forget about this, it won't work atm, maybe not ever. I've been and tried, buy a hardware amp modeller. |
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| Storyteller |
With a decent soundcard this definetely is possible.
NI guitar rig should be right for the job. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
So many issues here, I think we already discussed ASIO4ALL and snap crackle and pop in this thread, so read back for that, short version: no ASIO4ALL won't help. Yes the soundblaster is crap, upgrading would help... maybe... a bit.
Your computer should be good enough too, but your expecting too much out of a computer to expect to play a live guitar in and use that as an amp modeller. Forget about this, it won't work atm, maybe not ever. I've been and tried, buy a hardware amp modeller. |
appreciated for the info. i guess i could always save up for a line6 POD or something.
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
With a decent soundcard this definetely is possible.
NI guitar rig should be right for the job. |
care to elaborate? the poster before you just said it won't work.. |
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| costizzle |
1. thanks for replying
2. you guys dont need to be hatin on the newbie, i just dont know much about this stuff so i asked, you cant blame me.
3. i dont know what stickies are so please explain.
4. my sound card is legit and has an asio driver in it. but i just dont know how to work it all. i have a fast computer just for some reason it lags, im trying to get the sound bank from my midi controller/synth into cubase so i can record those sounds. |
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