KVR Audio

electro · Post by **electro** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:35 am

I would love to get a hardware unit like this that could provide 16 notes of polyphony of Yamaha VL synthesis at 0 latency. That is the proper use for integrated hardware at this stage.

AndrewSimon · Post by **AndrewSimon** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:13 am

ArneyS wrote:Is this card using USB or USB2, becuase USB2 is faster than firewire.

I'll take firewire over USB2 anytime.
USB2 with it's latencies and hickups are not suited very well for real time music production.

DuX · Post by **DuX** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:37 am

USB2 faster than firewire? No way. On paper, yes. In practice, no. Firewire is made for streaming applications, USB is not. IMHO PCI still rules, but if I should choose between the two I'd definitely choose firewire.

Cheers.

Omniphonix · Post by **Omniphonix** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:12 pm

electro wrote:I would love to get a hardware unit like this that could provide 16 notes of polyphony of Yamaha VL synthesis at 0 latency. That is the proper use for integrated hardware at this stage.

There is no such thing as 0 latency, not even with a purely hardware setup.

electro · Post by **electro** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:15 pm

The same latency as a DSP plugin (2X) buffersize, but hardly any internal latency.

electro · Post by **electro** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:26 pm

And 16 voice polyphony is at 192Khz too.

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:48 pm

electro wrote:I would love to get a hardware unit like this that could provide 16 notes of polyphony of Yamaha VL synthesis at 0 latency.

Sounds like a Korg OASYS PCI. As a matter of fact, sounds exactly like a Korg OASYS PCI. Not zero latency (nothing is) but it responds as quickly as any other hardware synth. Only thing is you can run out of polyphony really quickly.

You know you have an old Win98 typewriter collecting dust in the closet...

I just sold mine (along with the G3 it was residing in, my G4, and my 20 inch flat panel, to get a G5, Tassman, and an Ion) but I enjoyed every bit of this wonderful synth/effects unit for the 3 years I had it. Oh, and did I mention, it doubles as an outboard effects unit with pretty much the same latency as hardware effects units?

If Korg ever does a V2 of the OASYS PCI, I'm all over it...

Lawnmower Of The Damned · Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:24 pm

A little bit of latency isn't the end of the world. Sound travels at roughly 1 foot per ms. If your monitors are 3 feet away from your head, then you've just added 3 ms in latency.

If I grab my guitar and play a riff, and I'm standing 10 feet away from my amp, then there will be roughly 10 ms of latency. You'll never get rid of latency entirely, so don't sweat the small stuff.

2005,Hardware effect company finally gets the picture