On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:16:26 GMT, "Frank McMahon"
wrote:


Mike, emil or anyone else...not sure what type of latencys there are but
here is what I need: I need a setup that when I hit a note I hear it through
the monitor at the same time, and I also need that sound recorded at the
exact same time in my program.

There are some cards that offer zero latency monitoring, which I guess is
not terribly hard to offer with the correct cabling, but I am most
interested in playing back a midi track with say a drum beat and then laying
down a second drum track where I am playing in real time to the beat of the
tracked played back, and I am hitting the notes on my keyboard exactly on
cue.

Right now I have a sound blaster live and an M-audio Keystation 49e that is
hooked up via a USB (1.0 I believe)

Using programs such as live, sonar, etc I want to make sure that if I am
playing a metrodone in live and I hit a key at the exact time as it clicks,
that when I play it back it is right at that exact time.

Not sure what would help..but the two audio cards discussed seemed to be
highly rated. I am also now wondering if I should get a card with an actual
midi port and use my keyboard midi port, as opposed to the plug and play USB
cable.

Hopefully this explains it better...and any suggestions you would have, for
a card, setup or port, would be great..thanks!


Mike is not looking at the problem from a musician's viewpoint,
certainly not a musician using the software synths and samplers
included with programs such as Sonar.

If this is what you're doing, I suggest you read the discussion of
latency on my Cubase FAQ page. It is equally applicable to other
similar programs.

Your problem isn't the midi interface.

Your SB live possibly is.


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