midi latency

[leegodden]

I have a slight delay from my keyboard when using midi. Have searched for hours trying to sort this. The problem occurs on all my soundcards:
ASIO Directx
Full Duplex,
ASIO for EWS88 MT (my installed soundcard), A
SIO Multimedia Driver and ASIo4All.

On all of these cards I have tried a host of combination's of latency and buffer adjustments, sample rates etc, downloaded and updated new drivers, changed all the relevant settings in cubase SX, removed system sounds and cleaned up windows OS on my computer all to no avail and I still have this slight delay that I cant live with.

So my question is, what is left for me to try?

I am using Cubase SX with a relatively new computer with a Terretec EWS88MT soundcard and a Yamaha 9000 pro keyboard,

Am really stuck with this on, any ideas gratefully appreciated

thanks

Lee

 

[Shadow_7]

Get a faster computer? Get more RAM? Only use simple sound fonts at the time of capture.

Or try fluidsynth in an optimized linux system. With optimizations of course. I was in the realm of a 0.5 second delay until I found that little trinket. It's still a bit of a latency, but small enough that some content can be anticipated by the performer if anything needed to be done LIVE. Granted that it'd have to be medium to slow in tempo or content. i.e. No ensemble performing flight of the bumble bee.

Beyond that get a keyboard with onboard sound generation. Lowest latency possible. Perhaps not the sound you want, but once you record the midi events, you can change the soundfont in post.

 

[c7sus]

Add more RAM, turn off anti-virus and screensavers, increase virtual memory to max.

 

[leegodden]

Thanks guys

I knew it was something stupid. It was to do with a Midi out setting within Cubase