Do you understand how to use that? The trick is to turn off input monitoring on the track that you're recording so that you won't get the delayed signal from the computer fed back to the Alpha's mixer.Īssuming that the Alpha's driver is well written (and, honestly, Lexicon doesn't have a very well established track record for their computer interfaces, so it may not be) even if you have to run the input signal through the computer to get it back to your headphones (which, with the Alpha, you don't) you can get the latency low enough to be tolerable to most players. However, your Alpha has a built-in monitor mixer that completely bypasses the computer path and gives you true no-latency input monitoring. ASIO drivers and a well tuned computer so that you can use a small buffer is the solution to that.
The latency problem that most people have today is with delay in the monitoring path - there's a significant time interval between when you sing a note and when you hear it come back ot you in the headphones. One of the things I want this article to do is to help people better define what they call "latency." It seems to be most appropriate for people who are dabbling with a DAW and using their computer's built-in sound card.īut about your Alpha - I'm in the process of writing an article about latency and how to deal with it and I would be very interested in more details about your problem. I'm getting noticeable delay, maybe because of the sucky drivers, so I'm trying to use ASIO4ALL, but it doesn't workĪSIO4ALL doesn't work with some hardware and it doesn't work with some software.