[PD] M-Audio Quattro and latency under XP

David Merrill dmerrill at media.mit.edu
Tue May 6 00:02:09 CEST 2003



Blair Martin wrote:

>
>
> >From: claudio scozzafava >To: pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at >Subject: [PD] 
> M-Audio Quattro and latency under XP >Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 00:59:55 
> +0200 > >Hi, > I've a M-audio quattro sound card. It work fine with PD 
> , but under Windows >XP I cannot to obtain a latency below 58 ms. I 
> have set the asio, audiobuf >and blocksize switch, and very low in 
> latency windows in Quattro control >panel : >i.e >pd -asio -sounddev2 
> -channels 4 -audiobuf 12 -blocksize 16 >(these are the smaller value I 
> can set) >Someone have a better result? >Ciao >Claudio >
>  
> Hi,
>  
> If you put the sample rate to 48Khz and make sure your using the 
> Quattro ASIO drivers and not any of the Multimedia ones you can get 
> the latency down about another 20ms or so.
>  
> There is so new BETA drivers for the Quattro on the M-audio website. 
> They solved alot of dropout problems I had in FL Studio and Cubase SX, 
> but I haven't had time to test on Pd yet.
>  
> Finally, if you build an interface for your patch in GriPD and turn 
> off the Pd interface you can get the latency down to under 10ms. It's 
> a little more work though.
>  

So in general, is building an interface with GriPD a way to reduce 
latency?  This is very interesting to me, as I am testing and trying to 
reduce latency on a few systems that I have running PD.
thanks,
David Merrill

> That'll keep you occupied anyway!
>  
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