Music Production

Reducing Latency

Tom Fryer's picture

Latency is when you play a note on your instrument and you hear a slight delay before it comes through the speakers on your DAW. Latency can make it difficult to record with any accuracy as the delay will throw off your timing. Any recording interface you use will have some latency, getting the lowest latency possible without any unwanted clicks or pops is your ultimate goal.

There are several options to reduce latency, such as changing software settings, upgrading hardware, creative monitoring, etc. Provided you have a decent amount of computer power, mostly RAM, you should be able tweak things to make it so you don't notice the latency.

First things first, make sure you have the LATEST driver and firmware updates for your device. Try and find an ASIO driver if possible (http://www.asio4all.com/). Depending on what software or hardware you are using, there should be a setting to reduce buffers. Find a nice balance where the latency is minimized and recording is not affected by unwanted noises or other playback issues.

There are some windows tweaks that will help to solve the issue. Make sure the computer you are using for your DAW, is just that...a DAW. If you can, get rid of every other program you don't need. If you don't have that luxury, look for any programs that may be resource hogs and kill them.

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Reducing Latency

Piano and horn

Chaser's picture

If you run a piano through a fuzz box and overlaping delay and play in the upper range of the keyboard you can get a sound that is like a trumpet playing in an empty concert hall. It sounds very lonely.

If you run a sine wave through the same setup you can play with the fuzz box to get very controlled feedback sound.

If you run my voice through the above setup it still sounds like shit.

 All the best

Chaseifer 

Superstar Suicide

Chaser's picture

We began work on a new track today - Superstar Suicide. Crazy mix, lots of FX and a new synth are making this one fun to edit. I found a Realistic MG-1 in a pawn shop a couple of weeks ago and this is its dedut song. We ran it through my POD and played with the sound until it felt right. Playing a synth that is not synced with the computer's internal clock has been a challenge but playing in a "human" bpm has a nice feel over the sound of the machine's very quantized bpm.

I am really getting into these analog synths. I have a Mirage, ESQ-1 (which I quess is a hybrid), and the MG-1. That will probably be it for a while, if I get too many I will stop playing music while I try to get cool sounds out of all this gear.

 Speaking of music it is time for me to get back to it.

 Chaser 

Hi all I am in real need for the Boss BR-900cd dvd tutorial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wickedimp's picture

Hi all I am in real need of a copy of the BOSS BR-900cd dvd tutorial..I dont have a creditcard or paypal account and I have searched in all the shops I could find with no luck,So if anyone knows of anywhere I can download it or would be kind enough to send me a copy I would be eternally greatfull (and so would my under appriciated br900!)..any help is very welcome,thanks for reading...:+)

The Ultimate Home Studio

Todd Fugere's picture

This video tour shows RealTraps partner Doug Ferrara's fabulous basement home studio. Doug and Ethan Winer explain how it was treated and why, and along the way they present many interesting and related topics.

Side Chain In Reason

Nightshade's picture

Boss br 600..help1

cassie's picture

 I just recently purchased the boss br600 used, so it didnt come with an instruction manual,, MY question is I am trying to record tracks, and I'll think I'm recording what I'm playing on the synth or drums or guitar or what ever, and then I go to play back what Ive done, and nothing is there. Can some one please help me with a little instruction on the recording process of this thing!!?? thank you :)

Free MIDI Drum Loops

Todd Fugere's picture

Groove Monkee is offering over 500 MIDI loops to download for free. The loops are samples from MIDI drum loop libraries. No purchase or registration is required...the loops are available in Mac or PC format. The following formats are included in the downloads:

  • Addictive Drums
  • BFD
  • BFD2
  • Battery
  • EZdrummer
  • FL Studio FPC
  • GM
  • Groove Agent
  • iMap
  • Larry Seyers
  • Ableton Live
  • Reason NN-XT
  • Reason Drum Kit Refills
  • Cakewalk Session Drummer
  • Steven Slate Drums
  • Superior Drummer (Toontrack)
  • DFH 1 and 2

The sample installer will automatically install the samples for Addictive Drums, BFD and EZdrummer. All other formats require a little more work to install. Please see the Read Me file for additional information.

Groove Monkee

Making a Simple Synth in Reaktor 5

Todd Fugere's picture

This video is for anyone who just wanna get some basic training on making a synth in native instruments reaktor 5.

Rewire Reason 3 with Pro Tools

Todd Fugere's picture

This is a tutorial that explains how to Rewire Reason 3 with Pro Tools. I'm assuming once you get these settings correct you can use this same process for rewiring any recording software, not sure? I'll give it a try...

Prime Loops - we're in the mix

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