Any way to decrease latency?

[Marcel]

I've been able to decrease the audio buffers to the minimum without any problems (23ms) BUT, the latency is too great for live monitoring of DXi plug-in instruments (including EDIROL). Is there any way to get this down to, say, 10ms or so? Computer configuration is P-III, 866mhz, 256M RAM, 40G hard drive, Tascam US-428 used for I/O (inclusing MIDI), Win98SE, Cakewalk Sonar 2.1. Also am using Native Instrument B4 with same problem (latency). Tascam has WDM drivers installed. I tried defragging the hard drive but get the same results. Am using the latest updates to the software.

A final word: I am able to get around this by not monitoring the DXi instruments, but, rather, monitoring the sound output of the keyboard I'm playing. MIDI records fine and in time. Playback is fine and in time. The problem is only while I'm recording and monitoring the DXi instruments live at the same time.

Marcel

 

[crosstudio]

although i can get my latency down to 10ms, the effective latency is still no less than 20ms. how close you get to 10ms can depend on how many audio buffer you use during playback.

on my desktop i always use 8 buffer, hence the latency is 10ms, but the effective latency is 70ms.

since i don't do DXi and I always monitor the input from my audio card hardware instead of sonar software, i don't suffer the latency issue.

however, when i'm mixing on the laptop (dell inspiron --> tascam us-428) i'll reduce the number of buffers until i stop getting dropouts but can still use the mix console. normally 2 doesn't work, but i can get away with 3 most of the time. that puts my effective latency at 20ms.