On Audio playback and recording, my driver mode says MME 32 bit. Would ASIO be better?

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

Yes M_Glen Asio would be better.  Asio will give you better results than MME you'll get that latency down using the better driver.  You'll obviously have to have a sound card that uses Asio. After choosing ASIO you will then use the ASIO control panel to control the latency.  At the moment as you are using MME the ASIO button in preferences will be greyed out.  Once you change the driver it will become active.  You should then be able to get the latency down.

The other driver option is WME, it's as good as ASIO, depending on what interface/soundcard you have WME may yeald better results than ASIO you will have to play with both.  

With my Edirol UA101 I get better latency with WME but I find that ASIO is more stable. So it's a case of experimenting.

If you don't have a pro sound card download the ASIO4ALL drivers this will allow you to get better results using your on board sound card.

HTH some

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

Great thanks!
It's all starting to work.
Now I'll start learning about some of those mysterious other knobs and buttons and the overwhelming sh*t load of softsynth choices.
Thanks guys, look for my name on next years Grammys. Lol

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!!!
 

the last 2 places icant reach after a tense night of effort and anger are.preferences /user remote scripts.....and it aint the p for preferences under the edit.
 

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.