latency probs

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Hi all,

I'm running a tweaked Win2k with Sonar 2XL on

amd athlon 1700+ xp
abit kg-7-raid
2 x deskstar 60GB
512 DDR
SBLive! Platinum

Ok, obviously my weakest link is the SBLive. I'm running ver 5.12.1.3520 WDM drivers. Originally I had the updated drivers from the creative website which were horrendous, couldn't even record in stereo and midi didn't work correctly. Now I'm back on the original W2k drivers that it was shipped with. I've tried some independent drivers too which although they sorted out the recording probs, didn't help latency much.

The problem is I can only set my latency to a minimum of 10ms with 3 buffers in queue, IO buffer size of 256, @48kHz.

I've tried suggestions of clearing out all references to it in the aud.ini file to reprofiling the sound card. When i do this it automatically comes up with a latency of 170.7ms. I profile it (although I thought it did this automatically on startup) and it drops to 20ms. First I wondered if it was being reported wrong, but after playing one note i realised it was being reported correctly.

Now tell me if i'm wrong, but i'm sure this should be a lot lower, closer to 5ms. As I record guitar with software effects, this is a biiiig problem.

Any suggestions from people who know far more about this than me?

Cheers

blubbs
 
I believe 10ms is the lowest latency you can get with an SB Live. To get to 5ms or lower you will need to get a better card.

What are you recording? Can you work without enabling Input Monitoring? I use hardware monitoring for my audio stuff, and am able to record with 100+ ms latency without problems.
 
i mainly record guitar at the moment, and using software amp simulation and other effects means i could really do with it enabling. i can record without but its a whole lot more of a pain in the back side when i'm not actually sure what its gonna sound like.

how do you monitor it by hardware? i got the new kx drivers and they're cool. drivers seem ok so far and the control centre is an awful lot more use than the creative one.

i'm glad someone can get it right...
 
In my case, I just take a headphone tap off my mixer. However, if you are using software amp sims, I'm pretty sure you would need input monitoring in order to be able to hear the effect. Sounds like you're SOL.

Looks like you might want to think about a better sound card.
 
indeed...

had my eye on the delta 1010 for a while... now just gotta wait till i can actually afford one... any other recommendations?

this sblive sucks. i'm sure they could get sued under trade descriptions act for saying its a musicians card. lol.

i read somewhere about taking out all references to the soundcard in the aud.ini file to force it to profile the card again. i did, and i had to manually press the wave profiler button anyway. so whats the use?
 
10ms isnt' fast enough? I thought 10ms was considered 'real-time.'
 
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