USB Midi Latency?

[aorkennykiller]

Hey i recently bought a Casio CDP-120 which only has USB MIDI. I have tried recording or using the monitor function in FL Studio 10 aswell as Reaper. Both however give me latency issues when i broadcast it through my speakers.

For the most part i think my problem has to do with the MIDI Output because i read something about Microsoft synth table was no good. Is there anyways to work around this? The latency i am getting is about a quarter of a second to a half a second.

On another note i also bought a Audio Interface cause i was hoping to record with a mic aswell. The audio interface is Scarlett 2i4 and the Mic is a MXL 920. That being said maybe there is some adapter that turns the USB MIDI into the more traditional Midi? That way i can plug the keyboard to the adapter then into the actual audio interface itself.



I'm completely new to all of this stuff so please bare with me. I am sort of a computer geek so i am pretty certain that it wouldn't be my computer causing the latency hardware wise. I'm running a core i-5 processor OC'd to 4.7 GHZ aswell as 8GB Ram. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D PCIe. I'm still learning a lot of things especially with the DAWs. Thanks for your time!

[TimOBrien]

Latency is purely a function of the soundcard and its drivers.

Midi thru usb is just fine (I use it myself). Usb is a far fatter pipe than midi was designed for.

You want to use ASIO drivers on the Scarlett and ignore the soundblaster.

[aorkennykiller]

Its weird cause i downloaded ProteusVX and the latency on that is actually bareable. Is there anyway to fix the Keyboard portion of it? Are you saying that i should be able to route the keyboard to the scarlett and just use the scarlett as the only output?

I actually dont have studio monitors so is there anyway to continue using my regular PC speakers? I'm on a tight budget with limited space so i haven't purchased it. I didnt think that it would be neccesary.

[TimOBrien]

It is. Use the decent interface and get some monitors.
Onboard soundcards and soundblasters are for gaming, not music production.

[aorkennykiller]

Damn i guess the only real way to avoid buying monitors is to use the actual keyboard's speakers right? I mean i'm only going to recording one thing at a time. For the most part atleast.

Theres no way to route the keyboard to the audio interface so it skips the sound card?

[Ben Linus]

you ll need a good clock

[aorkennykiller]

Can you please elaborate?

[aorkennykiller]

I just dont understand why im lagging more when using DAW incomparasin to proteusVX

[the-music-man]

Plug your midi controller into your pc via usb, And use your external sound card as the audio output

[aorkennykiller]

External sound card as in my audio interface right? For some reason im not sure how to get sound from the keyboard through my computer and to out of the scarlett 2i4. Any pointers on how i would configure that?