Now, I have an annoying issue with latency. The concept of making WIndows low-latency, or for that matter doing any kind of serious work, seems oxymoronic, and I feel somewhat apprehensive. Nevertheless I must procede. I defragged my drive, made my virtual memory a constant size, and optimized the visual appearance for performance. Youc an do all of this from the System menu under the Control Panel, Advanced tab. I also disabled ctmmon.exe, the Microsoft handwriting/language service. Hopefully I don't need that, but it does take up a nice chunk of memory. I of course also have JAWS running, unfortunately. I have around 16% cpu usage, but still experience latency. I can clearly hear the response time between hitting a key on the keyboard and it playing through the headphones. Does anyone have any other tips? Really annoying, especially when it throws off the metronome as well.
Maybe you've already done this, but have you installed ASIO drivers for your sound card? If your sound card doesn't have native ASIO support (as most consumer-grade ones don't) you could give it a shot at ASIO4All, http://www.asio4all.com makes free drivers for any sound card. After installing ASIO you'll have to fiddle a bit with the buffering settings, which will depend on your machine. When I installed ASIO latency went way down.
By the way, some vst's seem to really whack out vsthost, I think it has to do with their visual interface. TOo bad we can't really access it, save through the parameters in the plugin menu.... Also, do I understand correctly that vsthost (or perhaps vst's) do not allow multitymbral mode? Thanks for everyone's help.
Nah, VSTs allow multitimbral, it's just many do not support it. For instance SynthFont is a VST and is perfectly multitimbral.
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