Hmm, doesn't sound too complicated to set up. I tried to set it up in vst
host and Synth Font and got no result, even though I was able to get the
standard drivers working. I guess I'll just blame it on the soundcard, since
I am not sure what soundcards it just doesn't work with.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Adamson" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: QWS List avoiding latency, are ASIO drivers the answer.
it was pretty easy,
just installed it, launched syfont1. selected to use asio, selected the
asio 4 all option in the list of available asio devices, when to the asio
4 all settings and selected the lexicon alpha, then played around with the
buffer size to get a point where I was happy with the quality and latency.
Its all a bit of a faff, but as the only bit I've had to pay for was the
higher quality sound card it was much cheaper than getting a hardware midi
synth, this was the only other option I found.
A hardware synth would be better I think but they are just way to
expensive, and eBay don't seem to have any cheaper second hand ones.
Anyway, it works now so all is good!
Thanks.
Nick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Grote" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: QWS List avoiding latency, are ASIO drivers the answer.
Glad to hear you got it working.
How did you get Asio 4 all to work? Did you just use the defaults?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Adamson" <[email protected]>
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:30 PM
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.
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