emagic emi 2/6 headphone signal delay - help

[nuperspective]

When using the headphone monitoring of the emi there is a distinct delay between the audio out and headphones. i presume it the latency settings for the card. so...

does anybody have any tips for the best settings.

or

whats the best way to optimise the settings in live.

cheers

[brecht]

When using the headphone monitoring of the emi there is a distinct delay between the audio out and headphones. i presume it the latency settings for the card. so...

The first thing you have to do is edit the Options.txt file in your Preferences folder and add the line:

"-AsioSupportProcessNow=1"

(see
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic ... tions+emi )

This will halve the achievable latency.

But I've been getting pretty lousy latency even with this setting. I can get Live to run without glitches with the emi's latency settings at 4ms. But when I do the Live Latency Test (as in section 5.2.3 of the manual), the overall latency is actually 30ms. The crappy built in Direct X sound card on my laptop performs better than that!

Has anyone gotten better overall latency performance out of the EMI? Or is it time for me to buy a new sound card?

[nuperspective]

I've seen that tip before but i wasnt sure if it was for older versions of live and not live 4.0. did anybody notice an improvement? the seems to run okay when djing a couple of channels but the delay is terrable between the phones.

[brecht]

I've seen that tip before but i wasnt sure if it was for older versions of live and not live 4.0.

Nope. It's for all versions of Live. They moved the preferences folder in Live 4 to

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Ableton\Live 4.0.4\Preferences

The Options.txt still helps.

[nuperspective]

right i'll try it when i get home. i've your other post 29ms is the best with this card anyway. i'm not doing much recording at the moment - just playback, but it looks like an ugrade might be in order.