Nutela
Joined: 12/10/09
Posts: 2
Loc: Prague, Czech Rep.
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Looking to buy an affordable stereo i/o low latency external sound card. From reading
various reviews and forums I conclude that firewire has the most latency and express card
the lowest. I see eg. RME and Apogee make express card audio interfaces but they are very
expensive! I use mostly software synths. No need for MIDI i/o which I have with the
M-audio keystation pro 88.
I've noticed some weird behaviour with the internal
sound card of the MBP with PianoTeq, while I can't use it with a 64 samples buffer, at 128
samples I get mostly clean sound with a click here and there, latency is good, I have to
set it to 256 to be click free which is still useable (I believe GarageBand uses 256, and
Logic does too). I was expecting more actually (coming from BeOS) but I'm quite new to
Apple products.
Right now the TC electronic Konnekt 6 looks to be a good solution but
unless I can use it with 128 samples or less (no extra safety buffers please) I won't buy
it or any other FW interface. Thoughts?
MBP 5,1 specs: 2,4 Core2 Duo, 2 GB ram.
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Bob Moose
Joined: 17/01/08
Posts: 361
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Hello,
I have used the built-in sound card of my old PC at a latency of 64
samples, using the ASIO4ALL driver.
Apart from this, maybe you should try one
of the M-Audio interfaces...
Cheers,
-j
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Nutela
Joined: 12/10/09
Posts: 2
Loc: Prague, Czech Rep.
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update: I have set the buffer to 64 samples in Logic Pro 8 and have choose Garageband's
Grand Piano, set the sustain to 127 and played a whole lot of chords but not a single
dropout. Conclusion: must be PianoTeq. I must say PTQ has around 30% CPU usage but still,
needs improvement!
I'm wondering if it is PianoTeq, just now I tried 256 samples,
playback of a recording I made with MIDI and changing the sustain pedal values, click
galore! (terrible) Strange because when I play on my MIDI keyboard I have no clicking when
the buffer is set to 256 samples. Even on 128 it is better. Must be a bug somewhere, I
believe it is PianoTeq, I'll try what Logic does.
Edited by Nutela (06/11/09 04:31 PM)
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