[sdiy] Atari latency, was:Camel*ont* soft Da synth!

[Richard Wentk]

At 18:27 07/05/2006, rude66 wrote:
>2 years ago, i did a cover of an iron maiden track. some parts came from a 
>midi file of the track, that included the guitar solos. in the end, i had 
>to record those track by track into the mmt8, who played them flawlessly 
>when the pc choked on them big time.
>and yes, i also use multiple midi ports, and then split the signal..

All hardware interfaces are different, and some are very bad. I had a 
Unitor for a while and it was useless at timing, because the drivers only 
do proper lookahead and buffering with Logic, not with Cubase.

This was a Unitor problem not a PC problem. Since I swapped to a Midex 
timing is rock solid.

Also, considering that there are thousands of PCs being used professionally 
for tracking, mixing and post-production, I don't find it convincing that 
only the people on this list would be having problems.

The fact is professionals seem entirely happy with what their PCs are 
doing, and some are even doing exciting things like mixing multiple streams 
of hard disk audio with MIDI.

Also consider that as a rule softsynths and samplers will have far lower 
latency than any hardware setup. Plug-in compensation will remove any fixed 
delays, and because there's no MIDI latency at all when everything is kept 
internal, there should be no time smearing on busy beats, irrespective of 
how much controller data there is.

Richard