Re: Motherboards with No Graphics, No Sound?



On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:26:56 -0500, Scott wrote:

Marty wrote:


The major problem with them is the latency of their drivers. Latency is
the delay between when the card is told to commence playing a waveform
and when it actually is heard to start. Typical latencies for HD Audio
drivers is 200ms and more.

Even when using ASIO drivers?

I don't know of any decent ASIO drivers for the Realtek HD audio chip.
There is a free wrapper called ASIO4All but it sucks in the sound quality
quality department, especially when using heavily CPU intensive synths.

This is not a problem if you are just
listening to a CD but is an impossible issue if you using the sound
card to generate live sounds from a musical keyboard.


I'm using my PC as a DAW but I'm not experiencing that long of delays
using a MIDI KB.

I suppose you have adjusted the buffering parameters to suit your DAW
application, but I would be surprised if you have tolerable latency *and*
sound quality. I get annoyed even with 50ms of latency, so I use an
external Firewire sound module (Edirol FA-66). It has direct monitoring
(zero latency).


.



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