Latency in monitoring

Vincent44

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Hi,
I am fairly new to the MIDI-business, but I managed to connect my Yamaha PSR to my PC (Windows 7 64 bit), using a MIDI to USB cable. Cubase 5 and Reaper both recognize it, but the latency is close to 250 ms. With ASIO4ALL installed and selected, this isn’t right. I also tweaked the settings a bit (buffer size and latency compensation), but it didn’t help. The strange thing is, if I strike a note on the keyboard, the volume bar in both Reaper and Cubase respond immediately! It seems that the signal doesn’t suffer from latency, but the monitoring does.

My goal is to play one midi VST at a time, and I experience this problem if as little as one track is set up.

I have a built-in soundcard, and I read somewhere that the monitoring latency is a common problem. Only, how do I solve this? By buying an audio interface? Or external soundcard? Or can it be solved in some other way?

Thanks a lot, greetings from Holland.
 
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