slow sound transmission from keyboard

[kboad]

My problem is timing: playing back the recorded midi (from the computer) and playing live from the keyboard at the same time. The sound transmitted from the keyboard is always delayed. I'm using Sonar and Yamaha PSR-172. What do I do to have both transmit sound at the same time?

[Boldgamer]

I haven't used Sonar but there should be a setting that allows you to control latency. Reducing the latency too much though may cause audio clipping (depends on your computer).

[AlChuck]

I assume that you are using the Yamaha to trigger a DXi or VSTi (DirectX or VST instrument - a softsynth) from within SONAR.

This can only work with reasonable latency in real-time if you have WDM or ASIO drivers for your sound card and you are using them in SONAR.

What soundcard and what operating system are you using?

[Jeyan]

It is usually your driver problem, update your midi interface/soundcard driver and see if it works. If not select Options>midi devices>click ok everytime before you record and see if that works (worked for me when I had this issue in Sonar 2)

[AlChuck]

Even if the driver is flawless, if it's the older MME architecture you simply cannot play DXi or VSTi from within SONAR in real time.