* From Simon Spero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Touquet Guy wrote:
> Can someone help me with this dilemma please (Simon Spero) ?
>
> I had a demo of Reaktor and ran it on my computer, but it had a terrible
> delay. I fear that it wouldn't help to buy a new soundcard, because all of
> the effects are
> computed realtime on the CPU, so there will always be some delay.
Make sure you have the best audio settings for your machine , with have the
lowest playback buffer that doesn't cause clicking.
It depends what O/S you're using. Windows NT doesn't have direct sound (unless
you want to risk windows 2000), so you can't reduce the buffering below about
75ms on most machines.
If you have windows 98, you can use directsound drivers and reduce the playback
buffering to 10ms. This is usually tolerable, if it isn't you can nudge the
appropriate tracks back by about 4 clock ticks using grid groove.
BTW, which soft sampler to get depends a lot on what you want to do with it.
Reaktor is the most flexible sampler out there (it's got a whole bunch of
resynthesis modules in it- you can rip shit to hell and back in ways the
hardware samplers can't dream of. However, if you want to use it to playback
pre-prepared banks of sound then you might be better off with something like
unity or gigasampler. These don't have nearly the same sorts of flexibility,
but have much better polyphony, and can read a variety of sample formats.
Native Instruments is working on an Akai format converter, with reaktor's
architecture you can model just about any sampler out there pretty exactly
(well, if they implement an idea I suggested, which I think they are :-)
People are using Reaktor in live shows, so it can be done - you just need to
make sure you have a stripped down o/s so that the machine doesn't suddenly
decide to defragment your hard-drive in the middle of a set :-)
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