Cubase 5 latency with Midi-Input

sulm

Hi !

First I tried to use my soundcard (Zoltrix Nightingale, C-media chip) for Midi-Input with my external Keyboard (Yamaha); the latency was terribly high making this soundcard useless for my purpose: I want to play my keyboard, listen to it and use Cubase instruments/effects.

Fortunately I heard about the kxproject and found an old soundblaster live in my cellar. I have installed the kx-driver and connected my keyboard to it. Setup was no problem, no errors occured. I selected the kx-asio driver in Cubase's "Audio System Setup", changed the latency of the kx-driver to 10ms. But still there is a delay between the time I press a key on my Keyboard and the time I can hear the sound.
Btw: my speakers are still connected (via SPDIF/Optical) to the Zoltrix-Soundcard.

Do I have to connect my speakers to the soundblasterLive? If yes, how do I have to configure this in the software. I did not get a "midi-sound" out of the soundblaster.

My system: Pentium IV 1,5 Ghz, 512Mb RAM, Windows XP, Cubase 5.1

Thanks in advance for your help.

Dierk

dj_stick

yes connect your speakers to the Live!, as you will still get the latency of the Zoltrix PLUS the latency of the Live! card. To get midi sound out of the Live!, you need to load a soundfont. To do so use this guide

sulm

Thank you so much! It works now (the delay is perfectly short) and I am really looking forward to try out all the sounds which are now available.