Hi there,
following the article on "The barde" about sound hardware:
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concertha ... ed/limit/6
I started to experiment a bit around to see how far I could push my onboard soundcard with some amazing results which I thought might be interesting to other users on a budget as well.
I first started off with the windows DirectSound drivers. I reduced the buffer to 1024 with a resulting latency of 23.2ms*.
I had previously found a project called ASIO4ALL (first hit on google) which claimed to access about any sound hardware at a very low level, transforming it into an ASIO soundcard.
With these drivers installed I was able to reduce the buffer to the minimum of 256. I also optimised all settings on the driver side for minimum latency and eventually got a latency of 5.8ms* which I find quite incredible for an onboard soundcard. I always thought I had to spend at least $400 for a latency level like this.
This does obviously not change anything about the sound quality you will be getting.
*all latencies as reported by Hauptwerk
P.S. if there is a better place for this please feel free to move the thread
following the article on "The barde" about sound hardware:
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concertha ... ed/limit/6
I started to experiment a bit around to see how far I could push my onboard soundcard with some amazing results which I thought might be interesting to other users on a budget as well.
I first started off with the windows DirectSound drivers. I reduced the buffer to 1024 with a resulting latency of 23.2ms*.
I had previously found a project called ASIO4ALL (first hit on google) which claimed to access about any sound hardware at a very low level, transforming it into an ASIO soundcard.
With these drivers installed I was able to reduce the buffer to the minimum of 256. I also optimised all settings on the driver side for minimum latency and eventually got a latency of 5.8ms* which I find quite incredible for an onboard soundcard. I always thought I had to spend at least $400 for a latency level like this.
This does obviously not change anything about the sound quality you will be getting.
*all latencies as reported by Hauptwerk
P.S. if there is a better place for this please feel free to move the thread