Latency

[joebingo]

hey,
I've just got my midi keyboard up and running in cubase SX 3.1.1.

I was wondering how to reduce the latency, there shouldnt be any but i get about 1 and a half seconds delay between me hitting the key, and the note coming out of my computer.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 3500+ and have 2 gb corsair DDR ram. My soundcard/audio & midi interface is the creative soundblaster audigy 2 ZS platinum.

cheers,
-Joe

 

[thehurlatron]

Dang! I thought I had it bad with like 24ms of latency.

What rate are you recording at? What do you have your buffers set to?

 

[joebingo]

that's my question, how do i change the buffers?

this doesnt happen when recording guitars etc, just midi. I have like 2ms latency normally, it's just absolutely ridiculous on midi.

edit: by rate, do you mean sample rate? if so, I'm recording at 44100. if i change it to 96000, i get the same latency as 11000

 

[TheButler]

It might be something to do with the input device your are using ? I plug my bass into the computer via a M-Audio USB interface and get 8m/s latency. Dunno if that is of any help ?

 

[joebingo]

my guitars and basses go through the same interface (that of my audigy 2 ZS). I set it to 2ms when using guitar rig 2, that's the lowest it'll go.

how do you find out the latency otherwise?

 

[Eldermike]

Are you monitoring (hearing) latency or actually recording it?. I remember reading something about this on Steinburg's website. Go to their site and look at FAQ's, it's there.

 

[TheButler]

Yeh, it is on guitar rig 2 that i am getting 8 ms latency

 

[joebingo]

just hearing apparently, cheers man!

I cant find any easy to understand info about it on their site, would somebody who understands how this kinda stuff works let me know how i do this, cheers for the help everyone!

 

[emils]

What software instruments and what recording software are you using?

 

[joebingo]

just the standard cubase synths (a1 mostly)

cubase sx 3.1.1:994

 

[emils]

I can't think of anything obvious but it is probably some setup issue in Cubase. Try Cubase forums at Invalid Link Removed

I found this in the FAQ Invalid Link Removed

 

[shifter]

This may sound like a silly Q. but how have you got your midi cabling routed?

You should just be running a single midi cable out of your keys into your interface...

 

[joebingo]

Emils, that was exactly it, cheers man,. that's exactly what I needed to see (my asio driver was set up wrong, instead of using the creative one, it used some other one (I think it was the ASIO multimedia driver)

yay, now i can make slow jams HA!

 

[emils]

No prob. It took me a while to set everything up in my Cubase as well.