AARGH! I can't get rid of the looong latency.... Now solved!

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AARGH! I can't get rid of the looong latency.... Now solved!

Post by the older brother » Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:52 pm

...on my PC!

It's almost brand new. Got Vista installed. My basic home recording set up is the same as I had on my old computer (4-5 year old with XP).
I use Cubase SX for the audio and ReWire Reason for the midi stuff - It's an easy and fast recording set up IMO. It worked super with the old PC, but with my new ultra-mega-powerful Vista PC the playback sound from Reason have half a second delay in time!!!! When I play Reason stand alone it's NO problem and when I record audio  there's no problem either....

Anyone got a clue what to do?  :(

both Reason and Cubase reacts  immediatly on the midi input signal (the input midi signal marker reacts that is), but the output is delayed.

Please....help.....
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Re: AARGH! I can't get rid of the looong latency....

Post by Pingu » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:19 pm

I would blame Vista or ReWire. Ask google, there's probably a thread started by someone with exactly the same problem on a forum somewhere, and hopefully an update to fix it available for download.

And ASIO drivers are always good to have, even if i don't think they have anything to do with your problem.
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Re: AARGH! I can't get rid of the looong latency....

Post by mjet » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:24 pm

Which version of SX are you running?
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Post by the older brother » Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:24 am

Pingu wrote: I would blame Vista or ReWire.
I've already done that!  :P
mjet wrote: Which version of SX are you running?
I'm at work at the moment but I'll check when I get back home....It's a"Try before Buy" version though  ;) so I can't really use the regular Upgrades/fixes from the Propellerhead or the Steinberg sites...

a shorter version of my question is: Is there anything I can set up in Vista (a box to check, a slider to move etc) to get rid of the problem or will I need to upgrade the actual programs?
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Post by haesslich » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:39 am

what's your soundcard and what driver settings do you use?

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Post by the older brother » Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:43 am

haesslich wrote: what's your soundcard and what driver settings do you use?
I got Roland/Edirol UA-25 with the latest drivers for Vista. I have the buffert sizes set to minimum before they pop and crack all the time....
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Post by haesslich » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:28 am

hm! sounds to be all right.  :(
dunno. have not tried vista but maybe the vista drivers are crap?

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Post by northern_dirt » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:52 am

Vista :k
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Post by the older brother » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:41 pm

:)

Found the problem via an online Cubase SX tutorial.

As I suspected it was a box I forgot to check... I had forgotten to choose the UA-25 ASIO driver (the directX ASIO was choosen - dunno why..) This happend by default with my old computer (or I have forgotten that I needed to do this settings by hand)

Thanks anyway!

Now Im off to the "B3" :P 
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Post by mjet » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:26 pm

Glad to hear you've sorted it out (and that it was relatively painless!).
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Post by the older brother » Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:57 pm

Thanks!

I think I'm doing pretty well - considering I was against computerbased home recording until 3 years ago  and had NEVER used a sequencer program before - just using a 4 track until then  :-[

...but even an old grumpy retro loving guy like me had to surrender at last and now I couldn't be without my PC and my midi keyboard  ;)

It's just sad that my Vintage keys stands pretty unused though...
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Re: AARGH! I can't get rid of the looong latency....

Post by haesslich » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:00 am

the older brother wrote: ...but even an old grumpy retro loving guy like me had to surrender at last and now I couldn't be without my PC and my midi keyboard  ;)
and then cubase comes along and thinks "ha! i'll show this guy what REALLY shitty default configurations are!" ;-)

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