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<blockquote data-quote="Karl Lies" data-source="post: 105775" data-attributes="member: 5327">Re: X32 Rack as a Soundcard interface....for an ekit....I should have been more clear in my earlier post and should have asked a question first...Do you plan to use some sort of midi drum trigger setup to essentially play the vst drums live or are you thinking in terms of having pre-recorded midi tracks that you&#039;ll use to run the drums?&nbsp;If you plan on playing them live it may depend on how low a latency your PC gives you on outbound audio. I&#039;m assuming here that you would be connecting a drum trigger pad system directly to the PC. You would play the trigger pads and then route the VST drum&#039;s audio out of the PC and over to the console. In this case you&#039;re going to have a very tiny latency between the trigger pad system and the VST (probably small enough that it wont matter). The latency between the VST and the console is the real question mark. For me at least, if I&#039;m trying to play along with something, latencies around 6 ms are noticeable but not unusable. Once they get up into the 10ms range thats enough to mess with me rhythmically. If you were thinking in terms of using pre-recorded midi tracks, played back either from a daw or via the VST itself (I run BFD2, it will run as a standalone VST and you can load and play back pre-recorded midi tracks into it just like a daw) then the outbound latency wont really have any effect on you.On my system, Cubase reports an outbound latency of a little over 5 ms when connected to the x32 via firewire and having the buffer settings in the x32 FW driver set to minimum&#039;s.Hope this helps.Karl</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Karl Lies, post: 105775, member: 5327"] Re: X32 Rack as a Soundcard interface....for an ekit.... I should have been more clear in my earlier post and should have asked a question first... Do you plan to use some sort of midi drum trigger setup to essentially play the vst drums live or are you thinking in terms of having pre-recorded midi tracks that you'll use to run the drums? If you plan on playing them live it may depend on how low a latency your PC gives you on outbound audio. I'm assuming here that you would be connecting a drum trigger pad system directly to the PC. You would play the trigger pads and then route the VST drum's audio out of the PC and over to the console. In this case you're going to have a very tiny latency between the trigger pad system and the VST (probably small enough that it wont matter). The latency between the VST and the console is the real question mark. For me at least, if I'm trying to play along with something, latencies around 6 ms are noticeable but not unusable. Once they get up into the 10ms range thats enough to mess with me rhythmically. If you were thinking in terms of using pre-recorded midi tracks, played back either from a daw or via the VST itself (I run BFD2, it will run as a standalone VST and you can load and play back pre-recorded midi tracks into it just like a daw) then the outbound latency wont really have any effect on you. On my system, Cubase reports an outbound latency of a little over 5 ms when connected to the x32 via firewire and having the buffer settings in the x32 FW driver set to minimum's. Hope this helps. Karl [/QUOTE]

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