Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "boodatat" <boodatat@y...> wrote:
> Hey Everyone, sorry if this is a dumb question but I just got the 
> DTX2 kit and I want to plug it into my Digi001 so that my guitar 
> player and myself can play and hear eachother in headphones. I'm 
not 
> to concerned with recording at the moment...
> So I have a guitar cable going from the DTX2's L mono jack into the 
> digi001 but I'm having a latency problem. Am I going about this the 
> right way? Can anyone offer me some suggestions?
> 
> Thanks a lot!

Hey Boodatat,

Remember: There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers, and I'm 
about to do my bit to confirm this principle. I don't use Digidesign 
stuff, so I'm making suggestions on the fly. If you're running both 
instruments through the hardware interface into your computer and 
back again, then, depending on your PC, and LE settings, the original 
signal may be undergoing too much processing before it returns to the 
outputs. From what I understand, inputs 3 and 4 on the interface, aka 
the Monitor Inputs, can be mixed w/o the computer being involved at 
all. When you switch into Monitor Mode on the panel, signals sent to 
inputs 3 and 4 go directly to Main Outputs 1 and 2, respectively, 
without passing Go and paying $200. If that's the case, you should be 
able to hear your mono DTXpress and guitar (assuming that the guitar 
has enough gain) without any delay. If you take the longer loop 
through your computer, you should have a setting in the LE software 
called Buffer Size. The smaller this setting is, the less will be the 
latency in the signal path. Make sure also that you don't 
inadvertently take the long way home (through, for example, software 
monitoring). By the way, your RAM size should be greater than the 
recommended 128MB. I hope that these elementary observations are 
useful, or stimulate something that is.

Ed