Hi guys,
I'm wondering if there is a way to solve the latency problems with the Mac Pro. Since I'm using a lot of tracks and effects, the latency gets affected by that.
I used to have a windows machine few years ago, so I solved that by buying SoundBlaster Audigy, quite old but worked pretty well for few months (when I did more complex music compositions). When I got the latency problem again, I bought a more powerful PC (with the "new" CPU Extreme Edition of 3,40 GHz and hyper-threading) and the problem was solved for many years.
So, I bought a Mac Pro early 2008, with 8 cores (2 quad cores) and 8 GB of RAM, etc... in year 2009 or 2010, cannot remember, and couldn't achieve the same latency than using the very old PC.
So, I know it's not about CPU's because I have 8 so far, nor RAM because there is a lot, same with disk space, which leads me to think it's a sound card problem, since I just have the onboard one (which seems to be half duplex ¿?). Of course, I used ASIO 2.0 with the old PC, which improved the performance a lot (somehow a latency of 3-5 ms with tons of tracks: wavs, synths, effects and such). So... I cannot achieve nothing descent under a latency of 30-50 ms on the Mac.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance, and have a good New Year, if you believe that time-space is true
Ø3
I'm wondering if there is a way to solve the latency problems with the Mac Pro. Since I'm using a lot of tracks and effects, the latency gets affected by that.
I used to have a windows machine few years ago, so I solved that by buying SoundBlaster Audigy, quite old but worked pretty well for few months (when I did more complex music compositions). When I got the latency problem again, I bought a more powerful PC (with the "new" CPU Extreme Edition of 3,40 GHz and hyper-threading) and the problem was solved for many years.
So, I bought a Mac Pro early 2008, with 8 cores (2 quad cores) and 8 GB of RAM, etc... in year 2009 or 2010, cannot remember, and couldn't achieve the same latency than using the very old PC.
So, I know it's not about CPU's because I have 8 so far, nor RAM because there is a lot, same with disk space, which leads me to think it's a sound card problem, since I just have the onboard one (which seems to be half duplex ¿?). Of course, I used ASIO 2.0 with the old PC, which improved the performance a lot (somehow a latency of 3-5 ms with tons of tracks: wavs, synths, effects and such). So... I cannot achieve nothing descent under a latency of 30-50 ms on the Mac.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance, and have a good New Year, if you believe that time-space is true
Ø3