New Soundcard setup
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- KVRer
- 6 posts since 30 May, 2004
Well, I just got an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro, and so I plug in my guitar, and open up Cubase, I try to play at the current setting in my Asio setup, however, my latency is horrible. So, anyone have any suggestions as to what I change my settings to, so that I have a good latency, and good sound?
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- KVRist
- 90 posts since 20 Jul, 2003
Creative soundcards are good if you pay $50 or less. M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (around $100) is my 1st choice for home studio card. Check: http://www.computermusic.co.uk/reviews/ ... ophile.asp for more details.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 30 May, 2004
Well, I'm more interested as to what I can do in regards to this soundcard, not only that, but I'm a gamer as well, so I need a good gaming card at the same time, so this card is my best solution.
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- KVRian
- 1171 posts since 21 Feb, 2004
dOESN'T cubase have its own asio drivers? make your you have picked the corrdct creative asio drivers and a latency no higher than 10 ms 
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- KVRian
- 1379 posts since 26 Apr, 2004 from UK
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- KVRian
- 974 posts since 10 May, 2003
Have you checked the latency/buffersize in the Asio setup screen in Cubase? Check your Cubase-manual because Creative Asio Drivers can give you low latency (2ms)
On my Pentium 1.7 GHZ i got 4 ms with an Audigy 1 Platinum EX, so it CAN be done.
On my Pentium 1.7 GHZ i got 4 ms with an Audigy 1 Platinum EX, so it CAN be done.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 30 May, 2004
I did check, and it's at 2048 at the moment, what would be my best bet to change it to? And, doesn't lowering this number effect the sound quality?MelodyMan wrote:Have you checked the latency/buffersize in the Asio setup screen in Cubase? Check your Cubase-manual because Creative Asio Drivers can give you low latency (2ms)
On my Pentium 1.7 GHZ i got 4 ms with an Audigy 1 Platinum EX, so it CAN be done.
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- KVRian
- 974 posts since 10 May, 2003
It should be 256 or 128. And no, it doesn't affect soundquality.
As i see from your questions, you have a lot of reading to do. Take your time, it's not as easy as it seems, especially not with an Audigy. It took me more than two weeks full-time study to get an acceptable result.
Good luck!
As i see from your questions, you have a lot of reading to do. Take your time, it's not as easy as it seems, especially not with an Audigy. It took me more than two weeks full-time study to get an acceptable result.
Good luck!
Buy Darling Sister's new album "Rise and fall" now! Just send a pm or an email. Visit our myspace page on www.myspace.com/darlingsister for songsamples.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 30 May, 2004
Okay, well, I tried to set it to 256, but for whatever reason, it set it to 512 instead, at any rate, the latency was good, although, it started to cut out after a few minutes. Any reason for this? and are there any websites, or something, that I can look through to figure this stuff out?MelodyMan wrote:It should be 256 or 128. And no, it doesn't affect soundquality.
As i see from your questions, you have a lot of reading to do. Take your time, it's not as easy as it seems, especially not with an Audigy. It took me more than two weeks full-time study to get an acceptable result.
Good luck!
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- KVRist
- 164 posts since 10 May, 2004 from England, UK
Its about getting a balance between latency and what your system can cope with. The lower the latency, the more work your computer has to do to keep up. If you have lowered it and it is dropping out then you need to increase it a little bit until it stops dropping out.
Of course it also depends how good the ASIO drivers for your sound card are, and I think it's common knowledge that the Audigys arnt the best. I think you should take a look at the kx drivers as they seem to make the most of the audigy for music production.
I also know some people will vary their latency depending on what they are doing. Whilst they are recording they will mute / render to wav everything else (which reduces cpu usage) and just record that single part with the latency reduced. Then when it comes to mixing / arranging the whole project they will increase it so the computer can cope, and tbh a latency of around 50ms is acceptable for arranging and mixing.
It's mostly a case of trial and error, if after you have played around for a bit you still arn't happy with the latency then it's time to look at upgrading your computer (cpu and ram, will make most difference) or...a different soundcard with better asio drivers
. Although i'd try working with it for a couple of months before I did anything like that.
edit: also the fact that you are dealing with buffer sizes (256, 512) suggest you are using the "DirectX Full Duplex Driver" (it's called somthing like that) which comes with Cubase and not with the Soundcard. Look for somthing like "Creative ASIO driver", there you will be able to set the latency in ms rather then messing about with buffer sizes, and get a better latency.
Of course it also depends how good the ASIO drivers for your sound card are, and I think it's common knowledge that the Audigys arnt the best. I think you should take a look at the kx drivers as they seem to make the most of the audigy for music production.
I also know some people will vary their latency depending on what they are doing. Whilst they are recording they will mute / render to wav everything else (which reduces cpu usage) and just record that single part with the latency reduced. Then when it comes to mixing / arranging the whole project they will increase it so the computer can cope, and tbh a latency of around 50ms is acceptable for arranging and mixing.
It's mostly a case of trial and error, if after you have played around for a bit you still arn't happy with the latency then it's time to look at upgrading your computer (cpu and ram, will make most difference) or...a different soundcard with better asio drivers
. Although i'd try working with it for a couple of months before I did anything like that.edit: also the fact that you are dealing with buffer sizes (256, 512) suggest you are using the "DirectX Full Duplex Driver" (it's called somthing like that) which comes with Cubase and not with the Soundcard. Look for somthing like "Creative ASIO driver", there you will be able to set the latency in ms rather then messing about with buffer sizes, and get a better latency.