ASIO Driver Settings

Hi Folks,
I am experiencing a slight delay effect when recording and monitoring directly out on my Roland Quad interface on a channel with the echo button activated.  I looked at my driver settings on the Quad and notice that the "use ASIO Direct Monitor" check box is not checked.  Does anyone know if that might make a difference when I "monitor" off the record channel in Sonar?
I hope this question makes sense.  I can offer more information about the Roland Quad settings.  I would really appreciate some help in getting the monitoring issue cleared up.
Thanks,
Micky D

That is very helpful.  But how can I get reverb applied to the record channel for monitoring purposes?  Seems like it will only work when the Echo button is enabled.  I'm sure I am missing something in my Sonar education. :-)
 

neirbod
As long as your buffer size is low enough, you can use the echo button and run through a reverb plugin.  Since you are hearing a delay, this suggests your buffers (and therefore your latency) is set too high.  Go to the drivers section in Edit/Preferences and try adjusting your buffers to get 5 ms or less of delay. 

I opened Sonar and went to Edit/Preferences, but the mixing latency area of the dialog box is dithered out...no adjustments can be made there.  Current time showing is 11.6 msec.  Hope to find a way to change it.

Sidroe
Are you using ASIO drivers? You can click on the ASIO control panel and set the latency there.

I think I'm getting somewhere now with your input.  I just looked at the ASIO Panel and it brought up my Roland Quad settings window.  Under the driver settings there is an "Audio Buffer Size" slider with numbers from 1-10.  Currently it is set at "7" and 512 samples.  It appears that "6" is the default setting at 256 samples.  I wonder if that change will make a difference?

Thanks guys, I'll give your suggestions a try.  I bet it will make a huge difference!  I'll let you know how it works out.

I set the latency at the default setting of 6 in the Quad driver settings.  That gives me a 256 sample rate and a latency time of 5.8 msec.
I think I'll try that on my next recording project which should be done in the next few days.  I hope that will do the trick.  If not, I'll move it down to 128 sample rate and give that a go.
Thanks all for the input!

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If he is still there with that, by all means look it up.  Incredible musician, and I would imagine any student performances would be well worth seeing.  :)
 
Bob Bone