newbie latency question

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mlaverty
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newbie latency question

Post by mlaverty »

hi
how do you get rid of MIDI latency
a friend of mine just got dp6 an usb keyboard and msi and has latency playing the synth

how do you get rid of it?

thanks
Morpheo
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Re: newbie latency question

Post by Morpheo »

mlaverty wrote:hi
how do you get rid of MIDI latency
a friend of mine just got dp6 an usb keyboard and msi and has latency playing the synth

how do you get rid of it?
Reduce your buffer size. In DP, go to >Setup>Configure Audio System>Configure Hardware Driver. 256 or lower for the buffer size should do it. Depending on your computer's performance, maybe you should try 512 if your cpu doesn't like it (>Studio>Audio Performance), as it might be acceptable.
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