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Jim Y
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If you have win98 and using MME drivers, the latency is about 450ms (if I remember correct).
Another source of lag is the multitrack mix prepare buffer, and you can experiment with the size of that. A lower buffer will give a faster response but more disk accesses and higher CPU usage. The program always does the mix from the play cursor time up to the size of the buffer so it's ready to play. When you change vol, pan etc, the effect won't be heard until the mix buffer refreshes from the point it sees your changes. Automation envelopes are calculated at this point while it fills the mix output buffer so these happen at the correct time.
With WDM drivers, the latency is so small (even with generic soundcards and MME) that you don't really notice delay caused by the driver - unless you play softsynths or have input monitoring, and you can't do those in Audition anyway.
I think even the edit view suffers a disk buffer lag - the delay between tweaking an effect in preview and hearing a change.
That's the thing with Samplitude, if you have enough ram, it will host and run the audio from there and goodbye to waiting for a disk buffer.
With a gig or two of ram, you could do without mixing off disk altogether and software DAWS will be much more like hardware mixers and fx.
Another source of lag is the multitrack mix prepare buffer, and you can experiment with the size of that. A lower buffer will give a faster response but more disk accesses and higher CPU usage. The program always does the mix from the play cursor time up to the size of the buffer so it's ready to play. When you change vol, pan etc, the effect won't be heard until the mix buffer refreshes from the point it sees your changes. Automation envelopes are calculated at this point while it fills the mix output buffer so these happen at the correct time.
With WDM drivers, the latency is so small (even with generic soundcards and MME) that you don't really notice delay caused by the driver - unless you play softsynths or have input monitoring, and you can't do those in Audition anyway.
I think even the edit view suffers a disk buffer lag - the delay between tweaking an effect in preview and hearing a change.
That's the thing with Samplitude, if you have enough ram, it will host and run the audio from there and goodbye to waiting for a disk buffer.
With a gig or two of ram, you could do without mixing off disk altogether and software DAWS will be much more like hardware mixers and fx.
