• SONAR
  • Latency problems, can't trace the cause (p.2)
2014/02/04 11:47:46
bitflipper
Instead of disabling velocity on the piano, check the user manual and see if there's a way to scale it. Pianos by nature need the full velocity range, but most sampled instruments don't, so excessive velocity range is often a nuisance. If the Casio doesn't offer velocity scaling, most Kontakt instruments do, so you can always adjust the velocity range after the fact.
 
Getting adequate volume from Kontakt is sometimes a problem if the instrument's CC7 range is too low by default. You can edit the Kontakt instrument to raise it - go into the instrument options and there are selections for the CC7 range. I often have to bring it up to 0db or even higher to get suitable volume while recording.
 
19ms of latency will make playing soft synths in real time awkward, especially instruments with fast attacks. You'll need to get down to half that or even less if you want to use, say, a marimba or other percussive sound. Reducing latency is largely a matter of decreasing your sound card's buffer size, but can also be accomplished with higher sample rates. Just going from 44.1KHz to 48KHz (which is the native rate for the RealTek) will knock a couple milliseconds off. 
 
The way I deal with soft synth latency is to monitor the hardware synthesizer while recording MIDI and then re-routing the finished MIDI track to a soft synth. Because you're  using a piano rather than a general-purpose rompler, this will probably only work for percussive-type sounds. If, for example, you want a harpsichord, play it as a piano part while monitoring the Casio directly and recording the performance as MIDI. Then find a harpsichord instrument and route the MIDI track to it.
2014/02/04 12:00:13
Cactus Music
There's no way around it, the heart of using a DAW is the audio interface. $300 software won't run on a $10 sound chip.  It's a huge waste of time talking or even thinking about any other approach to recording audio or MIDI.
You need GOOD ASIO or WDM drivers. Not a band-aid like asio4all. 
These day's the Scarlett 2i2 ($150) is very popular. I bought the 6i6 ($240) because I needed the extra connectivity. If your Casio uses USB you will not need the MIDI ports as an example. I need them to drive old outboard gear. 
 
2014/02/04 15:20:32
markyzno
I bet my bumcakes its ASIO4ALL.
2014/02/04 16:35:21
robert_e_bone
Oh, so you want to bet - I'll see your bumcakes and raise you one international incident.
 
(please interpret the above as meaning I concur that ASIO4ALL may well be the culprit).
 
Bob Bone
 
2014/02/04 16:48:27
Cactus Music
ASIO4all is known as a last resort fix.Say your trapped on a desert island without your audio interface but you have a laptop and internet. 
2014/02/04 20:40:20
Splat
Cactus Music
ASIO4all is known as a last resort fix.Say your trapped on a desert island without your audio interface but you have a laptop and internet. 



And you don't have any suicide pills.
2014/02/06 09:18:38
Ken77
Thanks you for the suggestions on the audio interfaces. I'll check them out and buy one in the near future.   
 
Bitflipper, I'll have a few questions on what you said, but would like to play with some settings first and post back. I tried adjusting volume in Kontakt already and didn't see any change at all, but I'll keep playing around with it.
 
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