Latency

craftycurate · Post by **craftycurate** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:30 pm

Am am recent convert to Live 6 and am getting my head round it.

Can I ask more experienced users about latency. I have tried to set it to about 20ms overall, but when CPU gets up to about 50% I start to get popping, and when it reaches 80%+ there is loads of popping.

What would you recommend in setting latency levels to balance timing issues and sound quality issues?

I have a Creative X-Fi with ASIO drivers, Pentium D930, 2GB, XP MCE 2005.

Thanks
Richard

cube · Post by **cube** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:32 pm

I dont think your soundcard is good for musicproducing=the drivers is not for that, only games and music listening.

Perhaps if you download the driver ASIO4ALL you can get it to work ok?

I am not a PC owner so you should ask some PC owners if this solves the problems for you.

Good luck!

djsandman · Post by **djsandman** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:26 pm

Crafty, I had almost the same setup and the exact same problem as you a few months ago. As cube mentioned, you can try ASIO4ALL, which will help, but it only helped a little for me when I tried it. Latency was still very noticable.
The basic answer is that you are screwed with that Creative sound card. You will need to get your hands on a dedicated PCI or firewire music-production interface. The Echo products are supposed to be very good and I can tell you from experience that the Presonus Firepod is rock solid and has fairly low latency. I hear a lot of people are happy with the Firebox as a cheaper solution.

craftycurate · Post by **craftycurate** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:36 pm

OK Thanks.

At some point soon I'm going to go for the new Edirol A25 I think as I need external MIDI functionality as well.

mercyplease · Post by **mercyplease** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:16 pm

to let you know live is a intensive cpu hog regardless of sound card. a better one will help latency but not buy a huge margin.

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:26 pm

try the tweaks at musicxp.net, which should help the responsiveness of the system while using Live.

Ive also heard that MCE2005 isnt the greatest for audio work, but Ive never seen any official evidence why it should be so.

...and get a proper soundcard!

craftycurate · Post by **craftycurate** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:10 pm

Main music station is going to be the new laptop, which has Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 2GB RAM, and XP Pro.

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