amateurorganist wrote:Hi Grant. Thank-you for that suggestion. I have tried it and it made a little difference. I bought the license for Sir2 this afternoon and fiddling with the settings there made no difference, disappointingly.
Why do IR have latency built into them? I having been using the York Minster & St. Alban's freebies and they both stop me from playing comfortably but the sound is really amazing. The Haverhill IOC extended set sounds out of this world!
1) Can anyone suggest any good IRs (free or paid) without latency worth getting?
2) I was reading on the Sonus Paradisi IR pages
http://www.hauptwerk.cz/irs/select.htm about being able to have several 'channels' in Reaper presumably to feed various organ departments through to get different effects. This sounds better than just a 'blanket' process. How does one go about doing this?
I'm running Reaper on a MacPro, with six stereo channels of SIR2 IR (the ones that come with SIR2, several of Jiri's, and a couple others I found here and there), and don't have a latency problem. So there may be something else going on. I don't think the IR's themselves are adding latency. I notice a VERY slight increase in latency over HW direct, but nothing that gets in the way of playing.
My Reaper buffering preference settings are all as follows:
- Auto-detect ... processing threads -- ON
- Thread Priority -- HIGHEST, Behavior 1 ---(this one does also have some effect on latency, if I remember)
- Media buffer size -- 200ms, pre buffer 100%
- Disable media buffering for tracks with open Midi editors -- ON
- Disable media buffering for tracks that are selected -- OFF
- FX Processing/multiprocessing settings -- everything OFF
- Optimize buffering for low latency hardware -- ON
- Use native events for synchronizing -- ON
SIR2 preferences are:
- Plugin Latency -- ZERO
- Resampling quality -- HIGH
I have no idea if these are optimum, but they work for me.
I once played a large electric action Vissar-Roland pipe instrument in a very reverberant church, where the console was located a considerable distance from the pipes. Drove me crazy. You had to not listen to the organ and just play the keys by rote, and hope you got it right. If I'd tried listening to what I was playing it would have caused a seizure