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echelons6
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Hello,
I'm new to music production and I have a question about my equipment and latency? Recently I purchased Ableton Live, a Presonus Audio Box USB audio interface, and some monitor speakers/headphones. I've been jamming on different synthesizers through different amplifiers for years, but this is my first attempt at integrating my PC into the mix to record and mix full songs.
Currently, I'm using an 88 key Kurzweil k-250 and a Korg Radias-Rackmount for my music production. Between those 2 units and Ableton I have plenty of sounds. They are hooked up to my Audio Box MIDI in and out, so they can send MIDI to Ableton, and they can receive MIDI for playback on whatever channel. I like this setup because I can program notes into Ableton, and then design and manipulate different patches through the Radias while Ableton plays the notes.
My issue however is when I play to the metronome, or program a simple 4/4 beat, both the audio and MIDI playback will always be off. If I program some MIDI notes, and then try to capture them to audio the timing will be off. If I just try and capture an audio file, the timing will be off. I can move the MIDI notes or audio around to make it in time but that seems like a backwards workflow.
I've downloaded the latestest drivers for the Audio Box (maybe rename it the POS box?) and made sure Ableton was utilizing them. I tuned the driver latency correction to 0ms even, but I didn't notice any change in the latency. I downloaded ASIO4all drivers, since I googled that ASIO setup's have close to 0 latency. With these driver however I had significant clipping below a some 1600 sample buffer. So I couldnt fish a good latency from that either because of the large buffer.
My PC isn't top of the line, 2.6ghz dual core with 4gb of ram (DDR2), but is that the culprit for not getting the ASIO setup to work? What kind of configuration should I have, either harware wise or software wise, to simply be able to record while a beat plays, and have that recording be in time? Both in terms of MIDI and audio clips.
I'm new to music production and I have a question about my equipment and latency? Recently I purchased Ableton Live, a Presonus Audio Box USB audio interface, and some monitor speakers/headphones. I've been jamming on different synthesizers through different amplifiers for years, but this is my first attempt at integrating my PC into the mix to record and mix full songs.
Currently, I'm using an 88 key Kurzweil k-250 and a Korg Radias-Rackmount for my music production. Between those 2 units and Ableton I have plenty of sounds. They are hooked up to my Audio Box MIDI in and out, so they can send MIDI to Ableton, and they can receive MIDI for playback on whatever channel. I like this setup because I can program notes into Ableton, and then design and manipulate different patches through the Radias while Ableton plays the notes.
My issue however is when I play to the metronome, or program a simple 4/4 beat, both the audio and MIDI playback will always be off. If I program some MIDI notes, and then try to capture them to audio the timing will be off. If I just try and capture an audio file, the timing will be off. I can move the MIDI notes or audio around to make it in time but that seems like a backwards workflow.
I've downloaded the latestest drivers for the Audio Box (maybe rename it the POS box?) and made sure Ableton was utilizing them. I tuned the driver latency correction to 0ms even, but I didn't notice any change in the latency. I downloaded ASIO4all drivers, since I googled that ASIO setup's have close to 0 latency. With these driver however I had significant clipping below a some 1600 sample buffer. So I couldnt fish a good latency from that either because of the large buffer.
My PC isn't top of the line, 2.6ghz dual core with 4gb of ram (DDR2), but is that the culprit for not getting the ASIO setup to work? What kind of configuration should I have, either harware wise or software wise, to simply be able to record while a beat plays, and have that recording be in time? Both in terms of MIDI and audio clips.
