Digi001, logic 5.3 plat, carillon and latency!

[neilsby]

Hi there,

I'm trying to set-up an audio recording studio in my house. I have a Carillon with a 2.6ghz Pent 4 with 1gb Ram and 200gb hardrive space split over two drives. I'm interested in adding a digi 001 to my set-up.

Firstly, what is pro tools le like? I would like to use Logic 5.3 with my set-up as i know it, so would i be able to use the digi001 with that without much fuss or would i have to import the audio files after i've tracked them in protools?

Secondly, i'm currently using a m-audio duo for some acoustic stuff and the amount of latency i'm experiencing is rendering it a bit unusable. Any tips? Would the digi001 have latency problems?

How do other people overcome latency problems, i was thinking about buying a mixer and using direct-outs to monitor stuff but i don' think this is the easiest or cheapest solution.

Basically! i need 8 channels with little or no latency to run on my carillon. Oh and daddy isn't rich! So i can't afford anything above the delta1010, digi001 kinda level.

Thanks for reading this, any advice about any aspect of this post will be greeted with much gratitude!

Thanks again,

Neil.

[MCal27]

Neil,
Have you reduced the buffer size of your Duo Interface? It should be on the M Audio control panel (not sure where this is on Windows.. I only use M Audio on Mac.) This will reduce the Latency of any Audio coming into and thru your system.

A PCI Based Interface such as the Delta 1010 or Digi 001 would let you run larger sessions DSP wise, as PCI is more robust than USB. So you'd find you could run Large sessions without getting the dreaded Audio/Midi sync error messages Logic gives when its Audio engine can't keep control of the Selected audio Interface with its given workload.

I would probably go with the Delta 1010 rather than the 001 for 2 reasons: 1) the delta 96k compatible. And 2) M Audio Windows support has tended to be better than Digi's..... This is changing nowadays.. but the 001 is now out of production, so it may not benefit from newer Digi technologies in the future...

Al.

[neilsby]

Thank you for the advice, i'll check out the latency settings in more depth when i get my carillon back from being fixed.

I think the problem might be that i'm running the duo on it's asio driver setting whilst using logic, i will try to get it using the Easi settings or MME, does anyone know which would be preferable?

Thanks a lot,

Neil.