Thomas Grill wrote:
Hi all, i did some experiments with version 0.36 and i'm a bit disappointed that the audio (asio) part hasn't improved yet. I don't know if it's a PortAudio issue but i find it quite lame that under Windows (with a RME HDSP Multiface, digital loopback) i can't get stable audio with effective latencies under 30 ms. That may be ok for just playing sounds but it's not for live processing of instruments (for example percussion). The other thing is that using 18 in/18 out channels without any dsp load costs 16-20% of cpu (PIII 800) - that's just for audio IO! Has anyone had more success? How can the situation by improved?
Using Linux we have success reports of stable latency at <3ms with 10 tracks while using this device. With 24 tracks the latency creeps up to <10 ms.
My advice is to learn how to use a Linux machine and then you will have the best of both worlds.