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How to have a midi keyboard working with REASON whitout delay

25 July, 2008 - 04:00 — wlowal

I´ve just started working with REASON, and when conected with my Roland keyboard the sound of the PC have a small delay. It souds a leatle after toutching the keyboard?
Any solution for this?

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25 July, 2008 - 07:21 — CapricornOne
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Check 2 things. Go into Preferences and go to audio and switch the audio drive till you find the lowest latency number. I find 92ms and below will work just fine the lower the number the better. Next if you can't find an audio driver the has a low latency select the one with the lowest number and run the slider down till you hit 92ms or less, but don't put it down to much or you will not get complete audio. That's the "samples" slider and the lower the number the worse the sound. If none of that works. buy more memory for your computer. (this is always good to do. As a computer tech, I recommend this highly for anyone doing music production) The stuff is cheap enough now that it isn't a real wallet killer. especially DDR2 533/667. That mem is less then 20 bucks for 512mb. With a rebate you could get 1gb for like 12 bucks.

Hope that helps.

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25 July, 2008 - 16:30 — matt
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Yup good advice, and also remember that if you have an available ASIO audio driver option, try that one out - its likely to give you the best latency from your audio device options...

25 July, 2008 - 16:40 — CapricornOne
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Yeah forgot to add that in this post. Good catch on that one!

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23 August, 2008 - 05:37 — heegs
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Just a little thing on the on the samples slider: putting it all the way down doesn't necessarily make sound quality worse, the smaller buffer just makes the CPU work harder in return for a smaller latency, so if you've got a beefy CPU and high-performance ASIO drivers, you can set it all the way down to 256 and you'll probably be able to get 6 ms or less latency without it affecting sound quality at all. At least not until you've got a rack full of effects running and Reason CPU usage goes up to 80% or higher, at which time you can alwas increase sample size again.
And unless you've got a tiny amount of RAM (less then 512 MB), putting more memory in won't fix your latency problem, though having more memory is always good in general.

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