latency/delays

[actionjetzon]

Hi

I have bought me a midi keyboard (oxygen 8 by m-audio) and have some really high delays when i playing the keys,...up to one second!

As i´ve installed it first time, it works absolutely fine. But after i have installed some other vst PlugIns, these probs showed up.


I´m a newbie in that whole software thing, so whats to do now?


cheers
aj

What soundcard are u using?

[actionjetzon]

...Delta 44 also by M-Audio (Midiman)!

In that case you should be able to dispose of the latency if you set up things right:

In the Delta control panel, first check the Buffer Size (Hardware Settings tap): I have it set to 512 samples (approx 12 ms @ 44.1kHz), I'm sure you could go even lower.

Most audio progs will allow you to set the audio port, make sure they all use the M Audio Delta-ASIO driver (e.g. in Native Instruments software go to System -> Audio port -> ASIO)

Same goes for your VST host (sequencer); if you have a version of Cubase installed, you might see several ASIO drivers, like 'ASIO DirectX' and 'ASIO Multimedia Driver'; these are drivers provided by Steinberg for soundcards that don't have dedicated ASIO drivers; in your case always go for Delta ASIO.

[actionjetzon]

Thx, will take a look this evening again....

But i think i´ve checked all that points...the midi timing between Cubase and VST´s works fine...only when i want to play the sounds via Keyboard In Cubase comes that long delay...

When i only open the VST Instrument, as Stand Alone, and chose that midi Keyboard in the midi-section it also works fine without any latency..


peace

[pille'ocheoni]

i alos have the oxy 8 and had problems in the begining but now that i messed with the buffer it works fine...trip has the ticket.......

actionjetzon,
what version of cubase are you running? I seem to recall that there was a VST version 3.6x or .7 (can't remember which one exactly, probably the first to come with VSTi support) that had this long delay you describe, between external MIDI input and plugin response, in that case it has got nothing to do with soundcard latency, only remedy is a cubase upgrade.

[actionjetzon]

No no Triptonizer, its already Cubase VST 5...
the curious thing is, that it worked really fine in the beginning, than i have installed some PlugIns and the latency was there...

i will try it again with the buffer size...thx

aj

[actionjetzon]

alright,
it was the false asio direction!

Don´t know why it was off from the Delta 44 selection.

Thanks a lot Triptonizer


tse tse....beginners

cheers pille