I bought a Roland D50 and connected it to my PC via a midi-usb adapter.
After many clicks finally I managed to have some sound come out of the PC
when I played the D50's keyboard. However, when I used a host (Minihost,
which has only 361Kb!...) to be able to take advantage of VST instruments, I
came to the sad conclusion that there's a delay between the pressing of the
key and the hearing of the sound!... This makes it virtually impossible to
play anything properly. I then used V-Stack instead and the result was even
worse, the delay increased by around 2 seconds!
Is there a way to prevent and avoid this annoying situation?
My PC is a Pentium IV 1.5 with 512Mb RAM. 

Frederico Rold�o wrote:
> I bought a Roland D50 and connected it to my PC via a midi-usb adapter.
> After many clicks finally I managed to have some sound come out of the PC
> when I played the D50's keyboard. However, when I used a host (Minihost,
> which has only 361Kb!...) to be able to take advantage of VST instruments, I
> came to the sad conclusion that there's a delay between the pressing of the
> key and the hearing of the sound!... This makes it virtually impossible to
> play anything properly. I then used V-Stack instead and the result was even
> worse, the delay increased by around 2 seconds!
> Is there a way to prevent and avoid this annoying situation?
> My PC is a Pentium IV 1.5 with 512Mb RAM. 
> 
> 
> 
this "delay" is called latency. (u'll find loads of documentation with a 
google search)
it depends on the soundboard drivers...
may be u'd try different drivers such as asio4all or u can try to reduce 
the buffer of the soundboard (1024, 512, 256 etc.) via the control panel 
  of the sb itself(clicks occour sometime applayng low values) .
hope it helps
js

Meanwhile I found asio4all. Great driver, it works fine, thanks!

"johnsmith" <johnsmith@dudu.com> wrote in message 
news:46222a19$0$20809$5fc30a8@news.tiscali.it...
> Frederico Rold�o wrote:
>> I bought a Roland D50 and connected it to my PC via a midi-usb adapter.
>> After many clicks finally I managed to have some sound come out of the PC
>> when I played the D50's keyboard. However, when I used a host (Minihost,
>> which has only 361Kb!...) to be able to take advantage of VST 
>> instruments, I
>> came to the sad conclusion that there's a delay between the pressing of 
>> the
>> key and the hearing of the sound!... This makes it virtually impossible 
>> to
>> play anything properly. I then used V-Stack instead and the result was 
>> even
>> worse, the delay increased by around 2 seconds!
>> Is there a way to prevent and avoid this annoying situation?
>> My PC is a Pentium IV 1.5 with 512Mb RAM.
> this "delay" is called latency. (u'll find loads of documentation with a 
> google search)
> it depends on the soundboard drivers...
> may be u'd try different drivers such as asio4all or u can try to reduce 
> the buffer of the soundboard (1024, 512, 256 etc.) via the control panel 
> of the sb itself(clicks occour sometime applayng low values) .
> hope it helps
> js
> 

Bless you!!! Never heard of asio4all until this post. Installed and my 
latency problems have been solved. WOO HOO!!!


Frederico Rold�o wrote:
> Meanwhile I found asio4all. Great driver, it works fine, thanks!
> 
> "johnsmith" <johnsmith@dudu.com> wrote in message 
> news:46222a19$0$20809$5fc30a8@news.tiscali.it...
>> Frederico Rold�o wrote:
>>> I bought a Roland D50 and connected it to my PC via a midi-usb adapter.
>>> After many clicks finally I managed to have some sound come out of the PC
>>> when I played the D50's keyboard. However, when I used a host (Minihost,
>>> which has only 361Kb!...) to be able to take advantage of VST 
>>> instruments, I
>>> came to the sad conclusion that there's a delay between the pressing of 
>>> the
>>> key and the hearing of the sound!... This makes it virtually impossible 
>>> to
>>> play anything properly. I then used V-Stack instead and the result was 
>>> even
>>> worse, the delay increased by around 2 seconds!
>>> Is there a way to prevent and avoid this annoying situation?
>>> My PC is a Pentium IV 1.5 with 512Mb RAM.
>> this "delay" is called latency. (u'll find loads of documentation with a 
>> google search)
>> it depends on the soundboard drivers...
>> may be u'd try different drivers such as asio4all or u can try to reduce 
>> the buffer of the soundboard (1024, 512, 256 etc.) via the control panel 
>> of the sb itself(clicks occour sometime applayng low values) .
>> hope it helps
>> js
>>
> 
> 
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