[iPodwithnomusic]

I have been working on customs a lot and a few people have posted in my customs thread that they are experiencing delayed audio. I think I have determined the cause to be something with my reaper setup.

 

Here is what one of my songs looks like, when it sounds perfectly aligned:

 

 

The first big peak is the sound of the first snare hit, and it plays exactly where the midi note appears. However, when people play it in game, they experience an audio delay. How can I correct this?

[Farottone]

I’m not sure about the “however”: there’s a huge delay in Reaper too. Are you 100% sure you are hearing it correctly? If so, you have a major sound driver issue, but I can’t imagine how you would even be able to author with a 1/8th delay in your audio.

[iPodwithnomusic]

I’m not sure about the “however”: there’s a huge delay in Reaper too. Are you 100% sure you are hearing it correctly? If so, you have a major sound driver issue, but I can’t imagine how you would even be able to author with a 1/8th delay in your audio.

 

Well once I moved the audio back far enough, everything lined up perfectly. I was able to fix it using the advice from this post. However now when I mash the spacebar to quickly start/stop it takes awhile for it to stop.

 

Does your reaper just play the audio instantly without any sort of delay?

 

Edit: Under audio > recording I had “Use audio driver reported latency” checked off by default, and unchecking that has improved my lag, but its not perfect yet

 

Actually everything is just getting worse, as I fixed the audio delay there is a longer delay from how long it takes my space bar to respond.

[Nyxyxylyth]

What is your audio device in REAPER?

 

Try downloading ASIO4ALL:

http://www.asio4all.com/

 

In REAPER’s Preferences / Audio / Device menu, select:

– Audio system: ASIO

– ASIO driver: ASIO4ALL v2

– ASIO Configuration…, then select your WDM output device, and set the ASIO Buffer Size to something like 512 samples (your mileage may vary)

 

If it doesn’t work with your sound card, consider blowing $30 on this swell Behringer UCA202 USB audio interface, which does support ASIO4ALL:

http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-UCA202-Audio-Interface/dp/B000KW2YEI

[iPodwithnomusic]

What is your audio device in REAPER?

 

Try downloading ASIO4ALL:

http://www.asio4all.com/

 

In REAPER’s Preferences / Audio / Device menu, select:

– Audio system: ASIO

– ASIO driver: ASIO4ALL v2

– ASIO Configuration…, then select your WDM output device, and set the ASIO Buffer Size to something like 512 samples (your mileage may vary)

 

If it doesn’t work with your sound card, consider blowing $30 on this swell Behringer UCA202 USB audio interface, which does support ASIO4ALL:

http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-UCA202-Audio-Interface/dp/B000KW2YEI

 

Wow that fixed it completely, thanks! For some reason it only plays through my laptops built in speakers, and not the ones I’ve got plugged into the audio jack

[Alternity]

ASIO4ALL takes over a sound card, usually the one that’s set by default in windows. You can access ASIO4ALL’s control panel through reaper, should be the same place as where you set reaper to use it (I use A4A for other purposes, never actually needed to use it in reaper so It might be different, but so far all apps were the same so reaper should too), which will allow you to map any input/ouput you wanna use with it.

[-para-dox]

 

Wow that fixed it completely, thanks!

Yay! Same here! Now i can chart by ear again!

[Jimi369]

I can’t wait to try this solution! Hope this fixes it for me as well. Thanks!

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