Bought an Alesis QX25 -now what??

This one for a start :

http://youtu.be/X7QY3uIdzUQ

Lol, Thansk for replying but you are waaay ahead of me.
I really have no clue here about MIDI devices.
First things first.
To start, the link you gave is for 8.5 & I have X1 but I think I get the initial process.
They seem to assume the device would show up in preferences.
If I go to Preferences, Midi, there is no Alesis QX25 showing up.
There is my BR800 which I use as my sound card. no problem there.
There is only one other check box for a "USB Audio Device"
What now?

I am using USB from the device to the computer.
Ok, I used the USB one in Preferences and renamed it Alesis.
I then opened a new song file
then opened an SI Bass Synth and made a new track
then I set the input to Alesis -omni and left the output to my BR800 for my Sound card.
Then I put Input Echo on
And I get sound! Woo Hoo.
That was easier that I expected.
Now I need to deal with the latency 
I set the # of record buffers down to 10  and the playback to 20 but still get the delay.
Any suggestions?

That did help a lot, probably enough to play along.
Thanks a bunch.
I'm excited at the potential.

With my (asio) Quad Capture driver, the Effective latency is greyed out.

I can only access the ASIO panel to change latency setting, and the result are shown as Total Rountrip. 

Are you using ASIO or WDM driver ?

Some system gets better result with one of them. You have to try out which one gives you a lower latency setting.

M_Glenn_M


the Mixing Latency shows 4 buffers 

If that is referring to "Buffers in playback queue" reducing that to 2 will make a big difference to latency times

ya i havebeen on my 2nd night trying to copy and paste the folder into the other invisible folder alesis thought id be adept enough to not only unlock so i can get my controller map to work and have id hope driver installed so i can get on with my lifeand music back on schedule.i work with soft synths i use my elec drums to trigger session drummer,etdc,im not a total dum dum.and im pretty angry at the time and energy it is taking to even get close to the 3 paragraph interlocking paths they tell me to follow so i can get things up to normal operations..i do my music for a living and this is somthing i will never forget as a maddening and also dangerous to my daws funtions misadventure,,,windows hides this folder i took all night to render visible for the reason of keeping .dll s and stuff people should not tamper with unless they really know the things that could go wrong.,...ANY HELP ON JUST GETTING THIS FILE PASTED IN THE RIGHT SPOT????ii just want to get back to my ##### work!!!
 

I could not understand what you want to achieve... I do not have Alesis, but from the Web information it has no own drivers.

littlejohn
windows hides this folder i took all night to render visible for the reason of keeping .dll s and stuff people should not tamper with unless they really know the things that could go wrong.,...ANY HELP ON JUST GETTING THIS FILE PASTED IN THE RIGHT SPOT????ii just want to get back to my ##### work!!!

Hidden Windows folders should stay hidden. That does not mean you can not see them: change Windows Explorer options "View", set options like (I have German Windows so not exact):
1) Hidden files and dirs: not show -> show
2) Hide system files: set -> unset
That is for Win10, for early versions I remember there was 3d related option.
 
Alternatively you can make Desktop link to some particular hidden folder.