Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- 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

Hey thanks a lot you guys. I'm gonna try some of this when I get home 
from work. I've read so many posts (on other newsgroups) where people 
are just nasty. What a pleasant surprise this is. Thanks again.