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cz,

5.8 ms should be fine for whatever you're using (softsynths etc). If you have a version I card (as opposed to a version II), there is a limit as to how low your ULLI can go (I can't remember what it is offhand, but it will tell you when you try to set it too low). This affects how low your SONAR slider can go (it changes a block size setting in cset.ini, and smaller is better).

If you can get 5.8 ms without problems, I wouldn't knock myself out trying to go lower

John Braner

The lowest setting the 1st generation Pulsar cards could go was 11ms. Thankfully newer cards become the timing master.

Going down to 1-2ms *is* important if you're doing input monitoring through DX effects. But if you're just doing softsynths, 5.8ms is just fine. Many hardware synths give worse performance than that.

Shayne

I don't remember the exact settings available with my PowerSampler 1, but I think there are settings as low as 3-4 ms available.

5.8 ms worked ok on my system till I began opening my bigger vocal projects. Then I got strange plugin errors saying "plugin not installed" about my installed DirectX plugins. The errors disappeared once I set latency at ~20 ms and reopened the project... so go figure.

Anyway, this WDM troubleshooting & tweaking is getting redundant now as Sonar's getting ASIO support. The CreamWare ASIO drivers should be far better than the WDM ones, as they have years of development behind them.

/cz

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