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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 19, 2005 15:08
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hi my processor is a 2.8 with 1 GB ram my sound card is an ESI wami rack 192L .i use the latest cubase .recently I noticed that I have a delay in the audio which I recorded as it appeared late on the time line, so I was told to change my soundcard latency settings from 1024ms to 42.this does improve timing but really effects the CPU usage in cubase .if i open only one moog vst the system can not handle it .therefore my question to you is what do i do to get the optimal settings. do I need to change the latency in the sound card or cubase
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Nemco
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Posted : Feb 19, 2005 19:02
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You had a latency of 1024ms!? Wtf lol.
Anyway, have you set up Cubase to use the ASIO driver of your ESI card? In any case, it should never be the ASIO Multimedia driver. Click "Devices" then go to "Device Setup" and in the list click "VST Audiobay". You should be able to see what driver you are using there.
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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 19, 2005 20:04
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i set it up as the wami rack 192L ASIO driver which is the actual driver for the ESI card.but do u think its posible that i can not use 42 ms in my mechine ?or have i done somthing wrong ?
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Elad
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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 20, 2005 16:24
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42 is the lowest my card will go .i probely need a new card than :-( and what about my computer why is it not working properly in the (slow)settings
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Nemco
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Posted : Feb 20, 2005 19:58
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42 is still not acceptable imo... You might want to check the ESI site if they have new drivers availble. Some other things that might help are finetuning your computer a bit, making sure there are no programs running that don't need to be running... It's really more of a cpu issue actually, but it can't hurt. Check www.musicxp.net. Also, there is an upgrade for SX3 available on the Steinberg website as well, www.steinberg.net.
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TRANCER
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Posted : Feb 20, 2005 21:14
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ESI isnt a pro-audio card, get something from M-audio or RME...
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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 20, 2005 21:18
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opps made a big mistke its samples not ms
is it still bad
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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 23, 2005 00:15
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cheers
for that
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Nemco
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Posted : Feb 23, 2005 15:31
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shilshoolon, setting high sample amounts in your buffer might cause pops, crackles and dropouts... however, if a buffer of 1024 works fine with your card, and doesn't make your latency high, then it should be fine...
I personally have a buffer of 512 samples, with a latency of 11ms, and that's just fine for me 
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You're a bit off there... ESI soundcards all do give ASIO 2.0 support. The one shilshoolon has even comes with an external 19" unit. So that does qualify as being a pro-audio card, even though ESI isn't really that popular.
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fregle
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Posted : Feb 23, 2005 15:45
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@ tsabeat: ur ad converter takes 3ms and ur da converter takes another 3ms, how did u ever get a latency of 5ms? The smallest theoretically possible latency was 6ms i thought? |
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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 23, 2005 20:05
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thanks i
cheked the latency at 256 samples is 5 ms but the computer does not seem to like .is there anything i can do in cubase to improve this cos it i think my coputer should handle this,no?
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fregle
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Posted : Feb 24, 2005 19:37
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if u only run audio, with no fx, it should handle it no problem... If that's not the case, there is a problem, but prolly not a problem with cubase, but a problem with your drivers/OS... Anyway, don't expect your computer to be able to handle such a low latency while ur using lot's of plugins (that need lot's of processing power...), unless u have a powerhouse soundcard, filled to the brim with DSP's That's why the tc powercore cards and such are so popular, they run on the hardware provided by the manufacturer, not on your cpu, and they put a limit on the number of plugins u can use, to prevent u from loading too much plugins for the computer to handle in such a short latency time... |
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Kemic-Al
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Posted : Feb 24, 2005 21:35
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On 2005-02-20 21:14, TRANCER wrote:
ESI isnt a pro-audio card, get something from M-audio or RME...
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then if you are about to change the card i agree to go for M-Audio 0 latency !
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shilshoolon
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Posted : Feb 25, 2005 02:17
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thank you
I guess for now if i want to record audio in time i will have bounce all my tracks and than drop the latency down to 42samples then bring it back up and bring the recrded audio to the original mix in 512 samples
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