Asio, Latency, Clip and buffers....What to do?

Ratamahatta

Well, this is my first post here, wouldn't be making this question before reading and searching for similar problems.

First of all, the KX drivers are great!, so much flexibles than creatives, it really gets your card to the limits, you can squeze your audio!....

but (there's always one of this), with my creative ASIO drivers i could get a 2ms latency without problems, but with the KX's asio i can't play even in 5ms.

After some playing (guitar), i start to get this little "clips" (maybe "cracks", don't know the difference) that are annoying me a lot!!...i've notice that some configurations of the buffers reduce this, and others that increase the problem (parallel with the ASIO latency config), but before tweaking the buffers config. i would like to know what am i tweaking, and maybe what is the best config for my system...or some tips, anything would help.

Pentium IV 1.8GHz
DDR 256MB
SwapFile 1GB
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
80GB Hard Disk

dj_stick

to reduce pops and clicks increase the buffer size and latency

geraldandreas

what windows do you use? it is very important to have the soundcard alone on an IRQ, set hw-accerlation to full and there are some services, you can turn off. look at this http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm and your system will be much faster. i use P3/500 with BX mobo and run with 5,33ms without problems.

Ratamahatta

Thanks for the fast replies guys!!...

Ratamahatta

Sorry i pressed "enter" before without knowing...

Well, i'm under Windows XP Home Edition, the KX is in the 16 IRQ alone, but the AIDA32 saids that is a shared IRQ, however there's no other device in there...

Ratamahatta

Well i've almost solved my problem.

The "cracks" are almost gone, i just played with the buffers configurations, but i'va noticed that now, when the cpu is working hard, the audio stars to "clip", this never happened before with the creative drivers (but i know is not a KX problem, but a config one), with the creative drivers the only thing that never stopped (or clipped or anything) was the audio, no matter how hard the cpu was working....

So, if anyone can help me with this, i'd appreciate it!!!

Thanks!

TravelRec.

Hi!

Look for hardware acceleration, set it to "Full". Try to switch processor´s power to backround services.

Greetings!

TravelRec.

P.S. Look my config - no problem to record up to 14 tracks simultaneously and playback many more with 20ms - it should work at your machine too!