sound processing time...memory or....?

nemix · 03-15-2008, 03:40 AM

I had a previous post on a computer I was going to buy but now am thinking of building one.

I was wondering (i produce music) when you run effects and such things and talk into a microphone for example, there's a few milliseconds wait for the computer to process your voice, add the effects and play it back.

I can set this latency to whatever I want down to 1 millisecond (instantly basically) but it can become very distorted and unclear. To get this latency down would the speed of the ram and the sound card be the biggest thing to worry about?

oscaryu1 · 03-15-2008, 04:19 AM

What sound card/microphone are you using currently?

nemix · 03-15-2008, 05:08 AM

currently have an emu 0404 but am upgrading to something else with the new computer and I have an akg condensor microphone running through a tampa preamp (but those two, mic and preamp, should have nothing to do with latency being hardware, I only have latency through software when it processes the effects to add to the vocals)

nemix · 03-15-2008, 11:11 PM

I was wondering mainly for the speed of the ram I was going to get (if that would make a difference...if that's what its called), ddr2 800 vs ddr2 1066.

edit: guess found my answer

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...65&articID=472

oscaryu1 · 03-16-2008, 01:39 PM

Anything over DDR2-800 is worthless.

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nemix Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 65	sound processing time...memory or....? I had a previous post on a computer I was going to buy but now am thinking of building one. I was wondering (i produce music) when you run effects and such things and talk into a microphone for example, there's a few milliseconds wait for the computer to process your voice, add the effects and play it back. I can set this latency to whatever I want down to 1 millisecond (instantly basically) but it can become very distorted and unclear. To get this latency down would the speed of the ram and the sound card be the biggest thing to worry about? Last edited by nemix; 03-15-2008 at 03:43 AM.

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nemix Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 65	I was wondering mainly for the speed of the ram I was going to get (if that would make a difference...if that's what its called), ddr2 800 vs ddr2 1066. edit: guess found my answer http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...65&articID=472 Last edited by nemix; 03-16-2008 at 02:49 AM.

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03-15-2008, 05:08 AM	#3 (permalink)
nemix Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 65	currently have an emu 0404 but am upgrading to something else with the new computer and I have an akg condensor microphone running through a tampa preamp (but those two, mic and preamp, should have nothing to do with latency being hardware, I only have latency through software when it processes the effects to add to the vocals)

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