Dave King
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How to reduce MIDI latency?
Hi,
I am setting up a whole new DAW with Sonar X2 Producer. Yippee!
My midi interface is the M-Audio MidiSport 2x2. Audio Interace is M-Audio Delta 44.
I downloaded the correct drivers for my new DAW.
On first test, when I play my midi keyboard controller, there is noticeable latency between the time I play the key and when I hear the sound. It didn't do this on my previous setup. What settings should I look at to correct this?
Thanks.
Dave King www.davekingmusic.com SONAR X2 Producer 64-Bit
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/11 11:59:43
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☄ Helpfulby acrichte 2016/04/04 18:36:20
Press P for Preferences and choose the Audio - Driver Settings category. If you're using WDM mode, adjust the Buffer Size slider. Set it for 10ms or lower. The lower the setting, the lower the latency. Anything below 10ms is usually unnoticeable. If you're using ASIO mode, click the ASIO Panel button and adjust the buffer size there. Each ASIO panel is different depending on your interface. Scott -- Scott R. Garrigus - http://garrigus.com * Author of the Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge Power book series: http://garrigus.com/?PowerBooks * Author of the Cakewalk Sonar ProAudioTutor video tutorial series: http://garrigus.com/?ProAudioTutor * Publisher of the DigiFreq free music technology newsletter: http://digifreq.com/?DigiFreq * Publisher of the NewTechReview free consumer technology newsletter: http://newtechreview.com/?NewTechReview
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Dave King
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/11 14:02:03
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Thanks Scott. I switched to ASIO and that fixed it. 
Dave King www.davekingmusic.com SONAR X2 Producer 64-Bit
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CJaysMusic
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/12 11:00:38
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Also, the higher your smaple rate, the lower your latency can go. So record at 48kHz or 88kHz or 96kHz. Any higher is just a waste Dave
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Dave King
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/12 12:36:45
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Also, the higher your smaple rate, the lower your latency can go. So record at 48kHz or 88kHz or 96kHz. Any higher is just a waste Dave Huh. That's totally counter-intutive to me. Seems like the higher the sample rate, the greater the latency. Thanks for the tip.
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/12 12:55:01
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One weird thing I've noticed with Sonar is that sometimes my latency will increase with time. If I've really been pushing Sonar for hours and I insert a new synth and start playing with it, the latency will gradually get worse until there's like half a second between hitting the key and hearing the sound, even though I have it set to 128. However if I turn the audio engine off and on (or restart Sonar), it goes back to normal.
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/12 19:27:08
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I had a problem with similar latency I increased my Ram from 4 gig to 8 and this seemed to work for me!
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/12 19:34:15
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CJaysMusic
Also, the higher your smaple rate, the lower your latency can go. So record at 48kHz or 88kHz or 96kHz. Any higher is just a waste Dave
CJ
Can you elaborate on that please?
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Re:How to reduce MIDI latency?
2012/11/12 20:09:12
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I assume he means the lower you go the better for latency, tho his listing the options in rising order might have been confusing.
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