From my understanding, Asio is imbedded into something. So for it to work,
you would have to enable it in the device you intend to use it with. I
believe QWS could care less whether it is Asio or not, since it is just
sending midi messages to a midi device. The device takes care of how those
messages should be used and how the Asio works. Again, this is how I am
understanding it, maybe somebody has a better understanding of Asio and can
correct or confirm what I have said in this topic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Adamson" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List avoiding latency, are ASIO drivers the answer.
Hi Raymond and all.
So from this can I take it that ASIO drivers will appear in the same list
as any virtual midi cables and software synths? From what I'd read I
thought the sequencer has to support the ASIO format, is this not the
case?
I'm not even sure if ASIO is what I need. All I want is something that is
responsive enough that I can record one track while listening to the
others. when I try this using the Microsoft gm soft synth built in to
Windows theirs around a 250 ish millisecond delay. From the tests I've run
it looks like the delay is on the output rather than the recording. Will
getting a decent external soundcard and rooting the midi through that work
for me?
It was a lot simpler in the days of win 98, for MIDI it just worked. not
much else did but at leased MIDI was ok. <grins!>
thanks for any info.
Nick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Grote" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List avoiding latency, are ASIO drivers the answer.
Well, here's my experience with Asio drivers.
First, you are right in saying that the default Windows stuff is not very
good. Although you can use it if absolutely nothing else.
If you want to be garenteed no delay, you can get a cheep keyboard, many
of the keyboard nowadays have sounds that are much better than Microsoft
for a low price. If you want to use Asio, I would recommend getting a
soundcard which supports it. I don't know which do though, so that will
be up to others to help make that decision.
If the soundcard you're getting has a synth with Asio drivers, you should
be able to use it in QWS, since QWS will search for and use any input and
output ports detected on the system. I haven't really come across a
situation where it didn't work with anything. However this is just my
theory, I haven't tried it as of yet because i don't have a soundcard
that supports this.
I do know, that if you want to use soundfonts, you can use Synth Font, or
a vst plugin with a vst host that supports Asio drivers. Then you can
install a virtual midi cable to route the signal back to qws and it will
definitely work so long as the asio driver works properly and you have
everything set up correctly. I haven't really gotten this to work either,
well I did once, but that was on an old laptop which died several months
after. The latancy wasn't totally gone either, but it was mch lower than
with standard drivers.
Since my struggle to get Asio drivers working has led to a computer crash
with too many conflicting drivers, for now I am living with the average
100ms delay I get. I use the on screen keyboard on this computer anyway,
and so the delay doesn't bother me too much as I am often playing slowly.
My other computer has a keyboard hooked up to it and there is no delay
because the keyboard is a hardware synth.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Adamson" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 2:55 PM
Subject: QWS List avoiding latency, are ASIO drivers the answer.
Hi All.
I'm new to the list. I've played with QWS a bit in the past but want to
get back in to doing more composing.
When I was in my teens I did quite a bit of playing around with MIDI
music on windows 98. I've recently started to look at this again.
On my windows XP laptop there seems to be a huge latency between the
time I play a note and when I here it, anything up to half a second.
Doing some googling it would appear that the built in midi stuff in
Windows XP is rubbish and that for best results I should get an external
soundcard which supports the "low latency ASIO drivers". The use of
these drivers would also be needed by the sequencing software I would be
using. I'm currently using an ancient version of cakewalk express I got
free with a magazine in 1999 and I guess it doesn't support these ASIO
drivers. Is all of this correct or is there something I can do with my
current setup?
What software would people recommend with screen readers in mind. One of
the sound cards I'm looking at comes with a cut down version of pro
tools, and one with a cut down version of a-base. Are either of these
accessible? If I'm wrong about any of this please let me know. Its been
some time since I looked in to this and stuff has changed.
Does QWS support the ASIO drivers?
I also don't want to spend a load of money either, this is just a hobby
thing.
Any information that could show a little light on this would be
gratefully received.
Thanks.
Nick.
To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com
for archived list posts, see
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com
for archived list posts, see
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com
for archived list posts, see
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com
for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
