Hi All.
Just for completeness I've got an answer for the latency issue I've been
trying to work out.
The solution I've got to is:
I've had to move from the laptop I was trying to get it working on to my win
7 desktop, not really what I wanted but the laptop would probably need a
rebuild and setup just for audio, also not a good option.
The win 7 box has the same problem with latency, just a bog standard
soundcard in it.
so I've now got a korg nanokey plugged in to QWS,
QWS going out to a virtual midi cable,
on the other end of the virtual midi cable I've got synfon1, a live
performance version of synth font, the sf2 player.
That is set up to use ASIO 4 all. The usb soundcard I've got, a lexicon
alpha does support ASIO but the ASIO4all drivers are better.
Its all a bit convoluted and daft but it works.
Thanks for the info on this one.
Regards.
Nick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Adamson" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 7:55 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.
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