EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:17 PM 5/04/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Does everyone hear get real-time response when they press a key on their 
>synth and hear the sampler being played on their PC/Monitors?  I was reading 
>an article and it made it sound like when you play, there is noticable 
>latency, but when you playback the sequence, it's locked in tight.  Just 
>curious what everyone else experiences...mainly Windows users.

The response latency is determined almost entirely by the drivers for your
audio interface hardware. (Logic does take some time to process midi
information and your keyboard takes some time to detect a note being
depressed) If you have an audio card with a fast ASIO or EASI driver or
Direct I/O you will get latency down below 10 milliseconds -- even as low
as 1.5 msec.  M audio  Delta and RME Hammerfall deliver this sort of
performance on PC. 

If your audio interface only has MME drivers, latency could be getting up
toward half a second -- useless for monitoring while playing. These latency
issues do not apply to the playback of recorded sequences. As a workaround,
 you can record with a sound from a soundcard or module and shift the
recorded sequence to playback through the EXS24 on an audioinstrument channel.

Regards,
Murray