HI, thanks so much for letting us know what you did here. many people forget such a simple courtesy and it can be very handy knowing how a given issue was solved, much appreciated. Cheers!
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Nick Adamson" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:30 PM To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: QWS List avoiding latency, are ASIO drivers the answer. > 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. >> >> >> 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]
