midi problems

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theres a split second delay when i play my keyboard via midi, what am i doing wrong? ive got soundblaster soundcard and im using my midi via USB, ive messed around with the latency but still got no result, and sometimes my magix music maker crashes and i have to reboot all the system again :(
 
Try this. Follow the installation instructions and it may solve your latency problem.
 
http://www.tweakheadz.com/soundcards_page_2.htm

Q) What is the thing with Latency everyone makes such a big deal about?

Tweak: Latency refers to the amount of time it takes from when you press a key on your midi keyboard to when you hear the sound, when playing a softsynth. A few years ago there were big problems with soundcards that did not support ASIO. The windows MME drivers had terrible latency. Now with WDM and Asio drivers, on Windows, latency is at an all time low. The Mac's Core Audio has good latency out of the box. The improvements over the last few years in soundcard drivers actually make playing the faster soft synths a better experience than playing older slower MIDI synths.

Q) How can I tell what my latency is?

Tweak: Find out the size of your audio buffer in samples. It should be listed in your soundcard's control panel. (Consumer cards may not do this) You can usually select among buffer sizes of 512, 384, 256, 128 and even 64. This number of samples divided by the sample rate (i.e., 44,100, 96,000, etc) is the latency in microseconds (ms) or thousandths of a second. For example, my delta 1010 uses a 256 sample buffer and i record at 44.1. 256/44.1=5.84 ms of latency. Note that if you use a 96k rate, your latency is halved. Hmm, that might be a test question later on. :)
 
kool, well its just that many ppl thought USB connection are always poor and my cheap sounblaster card doesnt help at all!! true? :confused:
 
when i playback my virtual synths, it always misses the first note and plays the rest but with a good 2sec delay, whats wrong? (its so annoying) :mad:
 
n4eem said:
USB connection are always poor and my cheap sounblaster card doesnt help at all!! true? :confused:
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There's nothing wrong with using USB to connect a controller keyboard. I use one all the time with no latency at all.

You are quite correct that you need to lay out for a new soundcard. If you are using a PC this is relatively cheap and good.


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