latency with sts5000

CHINABLACK · Post by **CHINABLACK** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:09 am

I have a powerbook G4 867mhz/1gb ram and I was thinking of getting thinking of getting the pulsar2 card in a magma chassis bay ,ill be using my laptop strictly for the sts5000 sampler triggered by mpc sequencer.does anyone out there know what are my chances of getting any latency ?

please help me before i make this step from my e4xt
thanx.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:19 am

STS-5000 is an exception to most SFP devices: the Formant Shifting process is CPU based, introducing ASIO latency to the sampler when the effect is in use. If that is not used, latency will be neglectable. samples are still stored in and read from your computer's memory, read on http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 96&forum=3, it might improve latency. More here: http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 4&forum=20

Following IO latency tests are with a 1st generation IO board, IMO little has changed by now: http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/PerformanceLatency.html

Hope this helps

CHINABLACK · Post by **CHINABLACK** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:57 am

it will be rare that i use that feature,but if i do ill use it on 1 preset olny so i wont hog up cpu power. thanks for for that info i think ill make the change to sts5000.how long have you been using this sampler ?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:58 pm

The STS series came with a card I bought like 2 years ago, but I don't use it much (I know I should:) except for some experiments...

CHINABLACK · Post by **CHINABLACK** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 1:51 pm

the olny reason i picked the sts is because the emu sampler is so much of a load to carry on flights including th cdrom drive ,clothes etc.the thing i had to look for in this sampler was portability(powerbook)and easy storage and retrieval.but it had to compete with the e4xt samplers functions.i guess i could master the sts just like my original sampler.do you use the soft/modules from creamware?

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 5:12 am

On 2003-12-19 06:19, at0mic wrote:
STS-5000 is an exception to most SFP devices: the Formant Shifting process is CPU based, introducing ASIO latency to the sampler when the effect is in use. If that is not used, latency will be neglectable.

Sorry at0mic, but the above statement is not correct.

Both the "normal" wave osc's and the stretch versions are indeed cpu based, but no where does ASIO come in to the equation.
(You can use the samplers without any asio drivers at all.)

Both types are special scope atoms that communicates directly with cpu/ram/hd via Windows dll's and vxd's, same as vDat, fft's, long delays etc.

The latency is exactly the same, stretching or not. (In theory, and on my system anyway.)

Kim.

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CHINABLACK · Post by **CHINABLACK** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:49 am

hello kim i see you have a windows setup,just how much latency will you get ?

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:38 pm

On the STS's ?
Exactly the same as on my old Mac: 1-1.5 ms.

Kim.

CHINABLACK · Post by **CHINABLACK** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:51 pm

thanks to both of you for that info ,my pulsar2 card just got here,time to grab a pack of smokes and start converting 30cdroms

thanks for chatting with me hope to speak to yall in the future.