HUGE latency problem...help!

[I_watch_starz]

Thanks for all the great people in here giving advice to newbies like me!

Ok, the problem is that when I play my softsynth through Cubase SE, I have a huge latency...like almost a second. This makes it impossible to moniter and record MIDI into Cubase. This latency isnt there when I play my softsynth as stand-alone outside of Cubase, its only in Cubase.

My DAW set up is Athlon 64FX with 512 ram with M-Audio Audiophle 2496, Absynth 3 and Cubase SE. My processor speed is really fast, I have the latest driver from M-Audio, and I have plenty of memory...what is going on here?

[axeman69]

I don't use Cubase, but there are adjustments you can make for latency in the M-Audio control panel. You're sure you're using ASIO drivers, right? Try reducing the buffer size.

[kernmount]

for the record:



Adjust that setting down to decrease latency. Adjusting to low will cause cracking and popping. Adusting it too high causes latency.

[gibong]

Also by default Cubase uses the "ASIO Multimedia" driver (slow), not the faster "M-Audio ASIO" driver. Use that instead. You can change it in Cubase's Audio prefs.

[kernmount]

I'm in a screenshot mood today. I've got more bandwidth than sense it appears and/or I must have a big project that I should be working on. :

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

[I_watch_starz]

Thank you so much ppl! Switching to ASIO worked instantly and now I have a 5 millesecond latency! Wow what a difference! Thank you so much again!