how to cut down on latency/distortion

[aeser]

right now i'm working with dp 4.6 and reaktor 5 and kontakt 2 and moog modular V, first problem would be latency, when i run reaktor/kontakt/moog modular V in standalone i have pretty much no latency, when i run it as an intrument in dp i get a decent ammount of latency (enough to make it very clumsy to actually play things into the sequencer in realtime)

i'm working with a dual 2.5 g5 with 2 gigs of ram and a motu 2408mkII btw

any ideas on how i can cut down the latency?

2nd problem, by default almost every sound i call up on any of the reaktor ensembles or in kontakt or in moog modular V by default are too loud and distort (digital distortion is like nails on a chalkboard to me), i have a hard time imagining everyone coded these instruments to sound bad and too loud by default so i was wondering if there is any master parameter anyone knows about that i could change to make the default volume of everything reasonable and not distorting?

thanks

[qo]

any ideas on how i can cut down the latency?

Decrease your buffer (figure 5-1, page 21, Getting Started Guide). But, that will increase the CPU utilization, so it's a tradeoff between latency and CPU.

[aeser]

any ideas on how i can cut down the latency?

Decrease your buffer (figure 5-1, page 21, Getting Started Guide). But, that will increase the CPU utilization, so it's a tradeoff between latency and CPU.

i have CPU to spare, huge reaktor ensembles take up at most %20 of the CPU, i just need to make it snappier.

thanks

[aeser]

any ideas on how i can cut down the latency?

Decrease your buffer (figure 5-1, page 21, Getting Started Guide). But, that will increase the CPU utilization, so it's a tradeoff between latency and CPU.

thanks a million man, that was the ticket! it's so responsive now. i can actually play music.

[qo]

Good to hear it aeser!

[aeser]

Good to hear it aeser!

yea it was cranked up all the way to 1024, i brought it down to 128 and it works perfectly.

anybody have any idea how to cut down on the default distortion? besides just having to turn every single instrument down individually?