Question about new sound card

Hey Brian, did you select "M-AUDIO ASIO" in the FL audio preferences page? How many "ms" does it say your latency is?

I chose the M-Audio ASIO, and it says 5ms, yea it does work nice with my midi keyboard, but...the track i was working on a few months ago now sounds like crap, which btw while i was making this track, the buffer length was set high and i was using a sound card my factory computer came with, it sounds great, no crackles or pops or anything. But later on I decided to buy a midi keyboard to make it alot easier for me to create melodies and such, so i thought i'd buy a decent sound card with it cause, obviously i wont be able to play my with the keyboard with the buffer set that high, it's just too much delay. Maybe I just made my track too busy with all the automations and such lol?

hmm, im pretty sure the keyboard and sound card is up to date since the driver cds it came with didn't work, so i had to get the most recent one from the website, as for fruity loops, it might be that, cause i don't i have updated it since i got it.

A small buffer-size will only cause crackling or problems if you're system and/or FL's DSP can't cope, what's your CPU usage like if you play the track at low-latency with a small buffer...?

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For CPU, start the Windows taskmanager (either using Ctrl+Alt+Del or righ-clicking on your menubar and selecting it), click on the performance tab and you'll get a graph of your CPU useage...not sure if FL has a way of checking it's own performance, I never use it myself.
In general 256 is a rather small buffer size...if you go up to 768 or 1024 you should still be below the 20ms latency and that way you can check if buffer size really is the problem here..

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...or at least try to (me, just now)